Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] the product " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme was the product of three weeks ' intensive work by President Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers to produce a compromise between Stanislav Shatalin " s radical proposals and the more cautious plan produced by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 2 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 3 | The unqualified use of the public meeting in the later stages of the emancipation campaign was the product both of an urgency amongst primarily a younger generation of abolitionists and a changed political context . |
| 4 | Now silk was the product of the day for the , for the royal household you see . |
| 5 | Rent-control policy in the inter-war period was the product in the main of three forces : pressure by property owners for complete control ; the Conservative Party belief that the Rent Acts were but a temporary measure to deal with a housing shortage ; and the social reality that without the protection of the Acts many working-class people would suffer considerably . |
| 6 | I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me . |
| 7 | The ambiguity was the product of two factors : unwillingness to pay for larger armed forces and doubts as to the policy of South Korea itself . |
| 8 | Thompson , the historian of the working class , has argued that the working class community was the product of a ‘ High degree of working class endeavour ’ ( Thompson , 1968 edn . ) . |
| 9 | Genomic DNA sequencing and mapping of the exon-intron boundaries showed that the visceral isoform was the product of cassette-type alternative splicing . |
| 10 | Moreover , given the striking similarity between the seasons , octagonal arrangement from Chedworth and mosaic H from Woodchester ( Smith 1969 , 101 ) , it seems almost certain that the seasons mosaic was the product of craftsman who had worked at the latter site . |
| 11 | Similarly , in industries with casual employment such as building in which employees lacked permanent attachment to a given employer , the union 's focus of organisation was the product or labour market rather than the individual firm . |
| 12 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the darker side of human genetics is also Galton 's responsibility , although his ideas for ‘ improving the human stock ’ through selective breeding were the product of his undeniable eccentricity rather than malevolence . |
| 14 | " Chartism was the product and victim of economic circumstances " . |
| 15 | Somewhat paradoxically , Chambers also included a chapter on MacLeay 's circular or quinary system of classification , since this indicated that the whole animal kingdom was the product of a coherent , rational plan . |
| 16 | It has been perceptively written that her victory was the product of a kind of ‘ peasants ' revolt ’ within the Tory Party . |
| 17 | The frustrations which Bridgeman and Maxse expressed towards the party hierarchy were the product of their belief that the leadership was not responding adequately to the party 's ‘ crisis ’ , and in particular not accepting the kind of programme which could bring the party back to power . |
| 18 | Manuela was the product of a relationship between the sexes firmly grounded in the realities of the marketplace . |
| 19 | Opposite to Street 's display in the exhibition was an even grander show which The Saturday Review thought was the product of another ‘ master hand ’ and , as it assumed that the building would be Gothic , to avoid failure the Government should employ the two architects jointly . |
| 20 | Rational thought was the product of rational ways of organizing industry . |
| 21 | Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc . |
| 22 | In fact , it seems that this chintz was the product of a relationship rather than a society . |
| 23 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 24 | How much of that gain was the product of newly fired-up managers ? |
| 25 | At the same time , however , each Zuwayi was his own historian , and history was the product of ordinary and unspecialized discourse . |
| 26 | Saturday 's goal was the product of some poor defending by Celtic and the alertness of Mason in picking out the ginger nut of Alex McLeish , but , again , they relied on a defender to score . |
| 27 | History in this case was the product of a specialized group ; and the arguments about the quality of the product were about its beauty , metre , wit , rather than about its truth , typicality and meaning . |
| 28 | This provision was the product of long debate , focussing on its obligatory character ( ’ in all cases ’ ) and on the meaning of ‘ civil and commercial ’ . |
| 29 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 30 | Baltic discontent was the product of several causes . |