Example sentences of "have result [prep] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 have resulted in substantial clarification of the theory of natural monopoly .
7 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 ) .
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