Example sentences of "result of [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed one of this form of revisionism 's characteristic positions is to stress localised events happening as a result of localised pressures rather than as responses to larger national happenings or , especially , to articulated ideological movements . |
| 2 | The securities industry also demonstrates particularly well the dangers of going international as a result of external pressure rather than internally-perceived opportunities . |
| 3 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
| 4 | However , these resemblances are probably ‘ convergences ’ , similarities acquired as the result of similar needs rather than evidence of a direct connection with true primates . |
| 5 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 6 | His fatness seems to have been largely the result of good living rather than ill-health ; he had decided to separate from his wife , yet he was obviously in need of looking after . |
| 7 | The burden of debt has also declined slightly from its peak 1981 levels , but as a result of curtailed imports rather than increased hard currency earnings . |
| 8 | Third , major landscape changes appeared to be more and more confined to a change in either tenure or farming type , and were clearly the result of well-thought-out decisions rather than the often piecemeal changes of the 1960s . |
| 9 | This is partly to ensure that any increase in profitability can be identified as the result of improved efficiency rather than a change in the method of compiling the accounts . |
| 10 | The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules . |
| 11 | As any market matures it tends to split into clearly defined areas , mainly as a result of targeted marketing rather than any particularly identifiable product differences . |
| 12 | Many older people may consider any limitations of activity which they experience to be a result of old age rather than a chronic health problem . |
| 13 | In this view the accordant summits in areas like the ridge and valley province of the USA were interpreted as the inevitable result of dynamic equilibrium rather than as remnants of earlier erosion cycles , and this followed from the assumption ( Hack , 1960 , p. 81 ) that : |
| 14 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |