Example sentences of "this [was/were] a result " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian Government had purchased firearms , and the plaintiff claimed that this was a result of influence he had exerted ; if this were true , he would be entitled to commission on the sale value . |
| 2 | This was a result of pressure brought to bear on the Home Secretary by the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women and the NVA , concerned about fresh revelations in the press over the white slave traffic . |
| 3 | If client experience did not change , it was important to know whether this was a result of the failure of the experimental service to work , or a failure to properly create the experimental service . |
| 4 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |
| 5 | This was a result of the new Burnham system of teacher payment , which signally raised the pay of junior school teachers but also abolished some of the differential between them and secondary school teachers , and , in some cases , actually cut the latter group 's pay . |
| 6 | This was a result not of the Bill or of the war but of a 1938 decision whose effect was delayed by the outbreak of war . |
| 7 | Whether this was a result of the improved economic conditions on one hand or the introduction of pro-natalist measures it is difficult to assess . |
| 8 | Though it worked with reasonable smoothness in some cases , this was a result of good county-district relationships which were able to overcome the inherent difficulties of the division of responsibilities as set out in ( virtually incomprehensible ) detail in Schedule 16 of the 1972 Act . |