Example sentences of "the result [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he follows Aristotle in believing that each child ought to be male and that a female is the result of misadventure . |
| 2 | They are the result of recall and not of the composition of components by the application of syntactic rules . |
| 3 | The main application of the principle of implied consent is found in cases where different floors in the same building are occupied by different persons and the tenant of a lower floor suffers damage as the result of water escaping from an upper floor . |
| 4 | In the first phase , nationalism emerged as the result of State formation ; in the second , the State was created as the result of a nationalist opposition to external competition or oppression . |
| 5 | However , it is not clear whether this has been the result of state intervention or of changes in the structure of production . |
| 6 | In other words , the result of brightness masking is feature shortage ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | He went into the London Clinic for three weeks and after X-rays , blood tests and cardiographic treatment it was discovered that the disorder had no organic origin — its source was essentially a nervous one and seemed likely to have been the result of over-exertion and worry . |
| 8 | I told the doctor ; but he said that the whole adventure was just a dream , the result of cold , tiredness and a violent bang on the head . |
| 9 | And with knowledge the result of fight for fair treatment for all workers . |
| 10 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 11 | Laws were the result of legislation by an intelligent deity . |
| 12 | Some patients with severe behaviour problems , especially as the result of head injury , may have to be admitted to special treatment units for behaviour modification therapy . |
| 13 | Many in business circles still held the belief that unemployment was the result of idleness or inefficiency . |
| 14 | It is worth considering that in part at least the malaise of modern society is the result of ill-considered and reckless policies of demolition and redevelopment . |
| 15 | Some of the changes are the result of afforestation and reservoir construction so that not every change is attributable to agricultural development . |
| 16 | ‘ Past Continuous ’ is the result of work by poet Joan Newman with the residents of the Rectory Field Residential Home and children from nearby Oakgrove Integrated Primary School on the theme of old age . |
| 17 | Lord Greene MR stated in Saltman that it is perfectly possible to have a confidential document , be it a formula , a plan , a sketch , or something of that kind , which is the result of work done by the maker on materials which may be available for the use of anybody . |
| 18 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 19 | Labour was further incensed because Balfour 's and the Cabinet majority 's crowning blow to Long 's hopes had been to ensure that the Act operated for only three years , the result of government 's unwillingness to accept permanent responsibility for the relief of unemployment . |
| 20 | One view is that it is the result of government parsimony towards prison staff ; the other is that such staff shortages as occur are due to the arcane system of rigid restrictive practices developed by the Prison Officers ' Association ( POA ) . |
| 21 | Thus when market rates rose , as the result of government policy for example , bank deposits became comparatively less attractive . |
| 22 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |
| 23 | This is partly the result of government policies aimed at reducing public funding in favour of increased private sponsorship . |
| 24 | And this is the result of Government policies that succeed . |
| 25 | Both the mule and its much less common reciprocal , the hinny ( by a stallion out of a she-ass ) , are the result of man 's observations and interference . |
| 26 | Childe had in mind that human evolution and development were not just passive responses to an external environment , but were the result of humanity 's own efforts . |
| 27 | It may , for example , be a defence to a charge of abusive dominance to establish that a market position is a result of advanced technical know-how or research and development capacity or marketing and advertising advantages which command consumer loyalty , and not the result of foreclosure of the relevant market . |
| 28 | The erasure was probably not the result of weathering , because Mercury has probably never possessed a significant atmosphere and certainly not for any length of time . |
| 29 | Wide variations in practice are partly the result of ignorance about the efficacy of many medical interventions ( Black 1986 , Fuchs 1984 ) . |
| 30 | It is possible that this may have been the result of overcommitment of advisory staff and thus arisen from difficulties in attending to this detail . |