Example sentences of "result of [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final communiqué stress was laid on the importance of concluding a treaty on conventional forces in Europe ( CFE ) in 1990 , as a result of which some reduction in overall defence expenditure could be expected . |
| 2 | [ … ] Where books were inadequate it was usually a result of their sketchy approach to a subject . |
| 3 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Their boast was in some respects justified , for some of the fall in the real price of electricity was indeed a result of their successful promotion of domestic loads : reducing supply costs by increasing the average consumption per consumer . |
| 5 | It is the result of their lower position in the occupational ladder , the pattern and timing of their migration , their family size and household structure , as well as the result of the discriminatory practices of British society . |
| 6 | Their convictions are sometimes the result of their intimate knowledge of the degenerating influences of Native amusements , but often have their source in a narrow conception of recreation imported to them by the missionaries . ' |
| 7 | If we look at Figure 4.6 , which represents a trip to the supermarket , it suggests that by the time the person leaves home they are already a little anxious about the trip perhaps as a result of their previous difficulties with this task . |
| 8 | The analysis is to hold whether or not the striking similarity between the dances of the two species is the result of their common descent from a dancing ancestral species , or the result of this sort of dance 's being an optimal solution to the ‘ evolutionary problem ’ of efficient communal food use . |
| 9 | In the station in which the unit is based ( not Easton ) , the attitude of the policemen towards it is not positive , partly as a result of their ambivalent attitudes toward sex crimes , but mostly because it is policed by women , who therefore are said to spend their time in Boots and Marks and Spencer , making it an easy duty ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 10 | Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ . |
| 11 | The Treasury is only a small department in terms of the number of civil servants that work there but it has tremendous power as a result of its financial role at the heart of government . |
| 12 | The rise of the lay colleges at the present time is largely the fault of the medical profession itself , a result of its consistent disregard for this approach to treatment so that the demand for it far outweighs the practitioners available to supply that demand . |
| 13 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc has entered the pen computing market with launch of the PenExec PenTop notebook , a direct result of its strategic alliance with the TE Electronics Grid Systems arm of Tandy Corp : the $3,000 machine comes in a 11.6″ by 9.4″ by 1.6″ 5.5 lbs black magnesium box , and runs for up to three hours of continuous computing , supports PCMCIA ; offers up to 200Mb disk and up to 20Mb main memory ; pre-installed software includes MS-DOS 6.0 , Windows 3.1 and Windows for Pen Computing , and Slate Corp is offering an AST pen essentials package of pen software applications and accessories — LooseLeaf Notetaker , Delrina WinFax Pen , Day-Timer Pen Scheduler and PenBook Business Reference Pages ; the PenExec also comes with a demo version of PenWare Inc 's PenCell spreadsheet ; the machine uses a 25MHz 80386SL and 2Mb RAM and 120Mb disk standard , one Type II PCMCIA slot and one external 3.5″ 1.44Mb floppy drive ; and it includes keyboard with 79 keys as well as the cordless pen . |
| 14 | Will the right hon. Gentleman see to it that Haringey receives an increase in its revenue support grant and standard spending assessment as a result of its excellent work in educating the children at its schools ? |
| 15 | The Labour Party published the result of its own enquiries in 1936 and began a campaign for more effective measures , but the compulsory control of industrial location had to wait until the war and the post-war Labour government . |
| 16 | British Telecom currently has to comply with the featherbedding European directive for essentially historical reasons , both because of its past as a state-owned company , and as a result of its previous status as a dominant carrier , which arguably it still is . |
| 17 | The Campaign won media attention as a result of its outspoken criticism of the state of British beer , backed by punchy public relations , marches , demonstrations and the launch of the Good Beer Guide , which listed those pubs that still sold ‘ the real thing ’ . |
| 18 | There will be deep trouble if it does — not unlike the deep trouble suffered by Mrs Thatcher as a result of her comparable crassness over the poll tax . |
| 19 | Her present situation was the result of her growing confidence in her own ability to cope with events and her increased understanding of the language . |
| 20 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 21 | Flashman missed the troubled Third Division club 's FA Cup defeat by Bournemouth with a bad back — the result of his alleged assault on a photographer when the club were fined £50,000 for financial irregularities . |
| 22 | While accepting the need for the United Kingdom to have the protection of a strategic nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future , may I ask the Secretary of State whether , as a result of his recent conversations with his French counterpart and the agreement reached at Maastricht , consideration has been given to greater co-operation in strategic nuclear matters with France ? |
| 23 | Their attempts to acquire Bigorre and Comminges were effectively blocked by the counts of Foix , but Bernard VI of Armagnac 's inheritance of the town and comté of Rodez in 1304 ( as a result of his second marriage to Cécile , daughter of Henri , count of Rodez ) was a valuable acquisition . |
| 24 | This particular feature in the landscapes at Horta de Ebro , the solid , almost tangible , treatment of the sky , had been developed first in Cubist painting by Braque as a result of his new ideas about pictorial space . |
| 25 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 26 | Whether the death was suicide , or a result of his natural aptitude for failure , was never established . |
| 27 | This became an issue in 1967 , as a result of his unpopular initiative in Canada . |
| 28 | MICHAEL O'Neill started his cycle business at Main Street three years ago as a result of his own interest in cycling . |
| 29 | As it was , the unit he founded was very nearly thrown to the wolves as a result of his abrupt departure from the scene . |
| 30 | ( Surprisingly , Devereux found that this was the only area of active faults that did not have a marked number of UFO reports , but this seems to be a result of his patchy methods of obtaining data . ) |