Example sentences of "be not the result [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On Malta two losses were suffered during early May which were not the result of enemy activity .
2 Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce .
3 This is not the result of incompetence , but rather the consequences of an understandable ignorance .
4 For the examiner may not agree that the fact is implied in the question ; but he will not mind about this if he sees that your assumption is not the result of carelessness but is your considered interpretation of the question .
5 The fact that adjectives have to be placed in front of nouns in English , for instance , means that their occurrence in this position has little or no significance because it is not the result of choice .
6 The data suggest that the protentiation of pancreatic toxicity of cyclosporin A observed during coadministration of indomethacin is not the result of suppression of endogenous pancreatic eicosanoid biosynthesis , but more likely results from altered cyclosporin A pharmacokinetics which may be caused by an interference of indomethacin with the hepatic cytochrome P-450 dependent monooxygenase involved in cyclosporin A metabolism .
7 They are ‘ natural ’ because they are not planned and because the order they display is not the result of design
8 The employment White Paper was published under a coalition dominated by Conservatives and Labour , but it was not the result of discussion within each party , and although leading politicians on both sides endorsed its policy it would be wrong to say that it reflected the considered view of either party .
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