Example sentences of "[modal v] be the result " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | Any change in the boundaries of authority should be the result of conscious planning , and not surreptitious empire-building . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The decision to acquire should be the result of formal strategic analysis and the examination of alternative ways of meeting business objectives . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IT MUST be the result of all that western decadence and spiritual pollution : the Chinese like sex . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The reason is not clear , but must be the result of some subtle change in the genetic information in the nucleus . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This reading can not be explained by contextual modulation , so it must be the result of selection from a set of discrete possibilities . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction . |
| 16 | This ghastly episode must be the result of too much warm Caribbean sun , too much chilled Chardonnay and rum punch . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | Cowan reasoned that the patterns in the visual cortex might be the result of an analogous instability in the neural activity . |
| 19 | Overt suffering might be the result ; but Regan immediately rules this out ( as one also would in the case of my example ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On other occasions the encoding process might be the result of a great deal of consideration . |
| 22 | Only Charles Lyell resisted this interpretation , arguing that the apparent sequence might be the result of imperfect evidence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Finally , it might be the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It could then be speculated that the high concentrations of α-linolenic acid ( which is exclusively from dietary origin ) , might be the result of a negative feed back effect upon delta-6 desaturase activity , mediated by an excess of docosahexaenoic acid ( C22:6n3 ) , the final product of this series . |
| 27 | Higher body temperatures in the daytime could be the result of our greater activity when it is light , with muscle effort producing the increased heat . |
| 28 | This could be the result of sulphur emissions from the largest nickel and copper smelting plant in the world which is based in Sudbury , Ontario . |
| 29 | It can involve almost any system of the body and yet there is evidence that it could be the result of a single gene defect , or defects in a limited number of genes . |
| 30 | There is considerable evidence that the multitudinous aspects of SLE may be the result of deficiencies of two members of the prostaglandin group of substances and excesses of others , which could be the result either of one or two related defects in the prostaglandin pathway , or of a single basic defect . |