Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon , who toured the town with Mr Hamilton , said North-East companies had prospered as a result of defence contracts . |
| 2 | General practitioners were asked to assess the extent to which they thought relationships with a number of other persons and organisations had changed as a result of acquiring fundholding status . |
| 3 | The Shipping Controller purporting to act under Defence of the Realm Regulations had imposed as a condition of licensing the sale of a ship to a foreign purchaser the payment to him by the seller of 15 per cent . |
| 4 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 5 | One month and again one year after the presentation of the final report , I revisited the school to find out what changes had occurred as a result of the review . |
| 6 | The survey of about 9,000 trees showed that the crowns of oak and Scots pine trees had deteriorated as a result of wind , snow and a climate which allows damaging insects to thrive . |
| 7 | Team Spirit 92 had been cancelled due to the improving relations between the two Korean states , but in recent months relations had deteriorated as a result of the North 's refusal to accept unscheduled inspection of its nuclear facilities , and the alleged discovery within South Korea of a huge Northern spy network [ see p. 39141 ] . |
| 8 | During 1989 speculation grew , however , that Indo-Soviet relations had cooled as a result of new directions in Soviet foreign policy , economic restructuring within the Soviet Union , and the availability to India of superior technology from Japan and the USA . |
| 9 | Gas and drainage pipes had broken as a result of the settlement and there was a risk of further breaks . |
| 10 | ( Amnesty also returned to an issue covered in its December 1990 report on abuses under the Iraqi occupation — see p. 37927 — saying that there was in fact no reliable evidence to support the claim that babies had died as a result of being removed from incubators by Iraqi troops . ) |
| 11 | Earlier , the Iraqi government had told the UN sanctions committee that 6,000 children had died as a result of the embargo . |
| 12 | Reports in December spoke of mounting concern over the effects of UN sanctions following government claims that up to 80,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of severe shortages in food and medicines . |
| 13 | A total of between 350,000 and 390,000 seabirds had died as a result of the spill , while the effects had spread into the food chain over 500 miles from the Prince William Sound . |
| 14 | He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type . |
| 15 | The lords had acted as a jury in state trials earlier in the century , and communal accusations outside parliament were not unknown , but there appears to be no precedent for the hearing of communal accusations in parliament before a jury of lords : this was the essential novelty in 1376 . |
| 16 | In short , the expectations and attitudes of these women had changed as a result of their experiences of paid work . |