Example sentences of "[modal v] be [art] result " in BNC.

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1 Despite differences in wealth , or in occupation , Shetlanders assume that evaluations of a person 's worth should be a result of his or her behaviour , not according to what an individual ‘ has ’ or ‘ is ’ .
2 Grigg therefore insisted , in his letter to Eden on 24 August 1944 , that the final policy on the matter should be the result of a formal " Cabinet ruling " : " If we hand the Russian prisoners back to their death , it wilt be the military authorities who do so , on my instructions , and I am entitled to have behind me , in this very unpleasant business , the considered view of the Government . "
3 Any change in the boundaries of authority should be the result of conscious planning , and not surreptitious empire-building .
4 if some planning application consultations are delayed , this should be the result of a conscious decision , discussed with me — you will need to keep the team paperwork moving up to and during the inquiry .
5 We believe that the macro-economic major help to which my hon. Friend refers should come through the International Monetary Fund and should be the result of a reform process with which the IMF is associated .
6 The decision to acquire should be the result of formal strategic analysis and the examination of alternative ways of meeting business objectives .
7 De Klerk warned that such " unilateral " initiatives were incompatible with previous agreements that constitutional reform should be the result of multiparty talks , that they could disrupt efforts to resume multiparty negotiations , and that they could cause violence to escalate .
8 Indeed , they would prefer that any agreements they reach with the UK should be the result of direct exchanges between governments without any contribution from the individuals to be affected ; they further argue that the role of the colony 's legislative council is consultative only and that it has no legal authority .
9 If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem .
10 This must be a result of the extravagant claims made at the movement 's inception , what Leith ( 1969 ) has described as the work of " flamboyant cheer leaders " .
11 IT MUST be the result of all that western decadence and spiritual pollution : the Chinese like sex .
12 Clearly any case of soil erosion must be the result of this interaction and any ceteris paribus assumption about these physical parameters would be absurd .
13 The reason is not clear , but must be the result of some subtle change in the genetic information in the nucleus .
14 Since all available records show that barn owls swallow small animal prey whole , the bone loss apparent in these figures must be the result of digestion .
15 The night-time loss of peroxide must be the result of dry deposition to the ocean surface , which is expected of any highly soluble gas .
16 This reading can not be explained by contextual modulation , so it must be the result of selection from a set of discrete possibilities .
17 On one occasion in the early autumn , the Shah had turned on Sullivan , recited almost every incident of unrest and declared that it was all so sophisticated that it must be the result of foreign intrigue against him .
18 That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction .
19 This ghastly episode must be the result of too much warm Caribbean sun , too much chilled Chardonnay and rum punch .
20 Government growth might be a result of the requirements of capitalism .
21 Increased fasting gall bladder volume during octreotide might be a result of decreased gall bladder muscle tone or because of the absence of interdigestive gall bladder contraction , which takes place in the fasting state , in close association with the intestinal migrating motor complex .
22 This might be the result of a number of factors , assuming , of course , that urban dwellers are not inherently more devious and criminal than rural dwellers :
23 Cowan reasoned that the patterns in the visual cortex might be the result of an analogous instability in the neural activity .
24 Overt suffering might be the result ; but Regan immediately rules this out ( as one also would in the case of my example ) .
25 Having noted that the suicide rate is markedly higher in Denmark than in England , Atkinson and his colleagues hypothesized that this might be the result of different procedures for certifying deaths as suicides .
26 On other occasions the encoding process might be the result of a great deal of consideration .
27 Only Charles Lyell resisted this interpretation , arguing that the apparent sequence might be the result of imperfect evidence .
28 Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts .
29 Finally , it might be the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors .
30 Intestinal transit times were measured to see whether the effect of sulphate upon methanogenesis might be the result of faster bowel transit , because the laxative properties of sodium sulphate are recognised .
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