Example sentences of "[that] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one unique fish , the imperial angelfish , the juveniles are covered in white lines that curve round in a special pattern that centres all one 's attention on the tail end . |
| 2 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 3 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 4 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 5 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 6 | Waterfalls of varying kinds can be constructed that vary considerably from the traditional form . |
| 7 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 8 | It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet . |
| 9 | The consumer-oriented image has been enhanced by stylish new brochures and a credit card ordering system — devices that owe more to the commercial sector than to industry . |
| 10 | Wherever the conditions for life are difficult , we find , typically , that the number of species is low ; and so it is in the world 's great deserts that lie just outside the wet equatorial regions , in Africa , Central Asia , North America and Australia . |
| 11 | The bits and pieces of competitor information that flow by in a constant stream may be true or false , relevant or irrelevant , confirmed or unconfirmed , positive or negative , deceptive or insightful . |
| 12 | In multicellular organisms that reproduce asexually through a single-cell stage , the effects of Muller 's ratchet will be exacerbated , both because population sizes tend to be smaller than for protozoans , and because genomes tend to be large and hence to accumulate more mutations per genome . |
| 13 | With the help of audio-visual aids , computer-assisted instruction , and other teaching devices , a museum can bring a subject alive in ways that compare favourably with a single television programme , or a book selected almost by chance from the local shop . |
| 14 | Many such creatures contain nervous organelles that operate independently of the other systems . |
| 15 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
| 16 | Just withering thrash grooves that shoot past in a punch-drunk blur , leaving their peers way behind . |
| 17 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 18 | Is it not time to put an end to the fraud and corruption that go on within the European Community , as evidenced by the continual reports of the European Court of Auditors ? |
| 19 | This produces early colours that go well with the wax-polished timbers , and accumulates to give the finish a smoothness and richness of texture impossible with more modern paints . |
| 20 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 21 | The linguistic model will provide the basis of the narrative model , and Todorov justifies this procedure by making claims that go far beyond the usual assumptions of structuralism . |
| 22 | In other words , the theme of eleven bars has rhythms that turn backwards at the mid point . |
| 23 | Each section of the report will give greatest attention to environmental issues that score highly against the following tests of significance : |
| 24 | Some competitor nations — Japan , in particular — have created relationships among engineers , managers , production workers , and marketing and sales people that do away with the old distinction between entrepreneurs and drones . |
| 25 | Lights that peak strongly in the blue and pink , resembling sunlight , encourage algae . |
| 26 | These tubes have to be fitted with high-polish reflectors , and should not be tubes that peak strongly in the blue colour spectrum . |
| 27 | It was one of the hardest battles of her life to drop that remark lightly into the charged atmosphere between them . |
| 28 | The accounts of our abnormality that arise out of the theoretical perspectives of individual psychology and of non-materialist social psychology are rejected on the grounds of their incoherency , and their ideological nature is indicated . |
| 29 | William 's life — like that of nearly everyone else in Santa Fe — appears to be both blameless and obscure , and is occupied principally with the farming of bananas and taro plants on the shallow hillsides that slope down to a sluggish tributary of the Rio Sabanas . |
| 30 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |