Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
| 2 | Many moralists responded to the challenge less by denying evolutionism than by arguing that the new biological theories could be integrated with older moral concerns . |
| 3 | The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters . |
| 4 | The number of emergency operations because of bleeding and the number of patients who died were comparable in both groups . |
| 5 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 6 | After Venna , above , that means that the accused is guilty if he intended to create or is reckless as to creating fear or as to touching and the outcome is actual bodily harm . |