Example sentences of "have result [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That overdraft has resulted from club-record spending by the Owls manager , who has splashed out £4.3m in his 18 months at the Hillsborough helm . |
| 2 | The underfunding has resulted in poor provision of essentials , like text books and stationery and a lack of computers for the teaching of information technology . |
| 3 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 4 | His skill has resulted in accurate information on actual hours of work rather than the , often lower , contracted hours . |
| 5 | The inquiry , due to be completed at the end of next month , has resulted in serious tension between the police and the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 6 | The general melting of the ice sheets of the last glacial period has resulted in widespread drowning of coasts , but at earlier stages of the Pleistocene the sea level was higher than at present as is witnessed by remnants of raised beaches . |
| 7 | A train derailment near the town of Lakehead , California , 175 miles north of San Francisco , has resulted in disastrous contamination of the Sacramento River by 20,000 gallons of the herbicide metham sodium . |
| 8 | Also initiatives were taken to increase the Board 's influence in South America , particularly in English Language , which has resulted in significant growth in this market . |
| 9 | Now , however , science has provided the means to manipulate the basic genetic material that all plants and animals are made of , namely DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) and already this has resulted in exciting progress in forensic science , pharmacology and disease control . |
| 10 | The obscuring by detail of some of his more fundamental and original conclusions may have resulted in formal recognition of his contributions coming rather late in his life , although he was awarded the Murchison medal of the Geological Society in 1906 and was president of the Geological Society of Edinburgh from 1908 to 1910 . |
| 11 | If rigorous logic had been followed , no payment at all would have been made for the transfer of development value to the state but this as the Uthwatt Committee had pointed out , would have resulted in considerable hardship in individual cases . |
| 12 | However , the Commission did not find evidence of deaths having resulted from deliberate brutality by police or prison officers , as had been alleged by some of the victims ' families . |
| 13 | Interest rates , running at an unexpected eight-year high , had increased the debt service burden , while slower growth had reduced tax revenues ; an effort to reduce domestic interest rates in January 1990 had resulted in heavy selling of the Canadian dollar . |
| 14 | These pay levels have resulted in low morale within the Service and have made it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff . |
| 15 | have resulted in substantial clarification of the theory of natural monopoly . |
| 16 | Unquestionably , the physical measures and publicity have resulted in considerable success in achieving this most crucial aim of environmental traffic management . |
| 17 | Various pressures have resulted in growing professionalisation in climbing which has changed the activity and will continue to change it — probably for the worse . |
| 18 | The generally disappointing effects of conventional drug therapy in mild hypertension have resulted in revived interest in non-pharmacological means of lowering blood pressure . |
| 19 | As stated above , the problem of desertification has been brought to public attention by famines that have resulted in immense loss of life , especially in the Sahel-Saharan zone of Africa ( reviewed in Glanz 1987 and Mortimore 1989 ) , the causes of which have been the subject of much debate and have recently been reviewed by Hulme ( 1989 ) . |