Example sentences of "[noun] can result [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This bargaining process , which is openly practised and tolerated in Seattle and most other United States jurisdictions can result in reduction of the gravity and/or number of charges against an offender ( e.g .
2 The misuse of chemical additives can result in loss of product quality and can cause serious explosions .
3 We are building two ourselves of our Severnside , Bristol , site — and already there is great interest in the concept , particularly from countries like India whose infrastructure restricts distribution of fertilizers from a plant to a radius of perhaps 150 kms ; large-scale plants can result in over-production in these situations , but our LCA ammonia process is just what we believe is needed , with a production rate of about 500 tonnes a day instead of over 1000 tonnes from a full-sized plant .
4 Exclusiveness can be pretentiousness ; amateur status can sometimes be an excuse for shoddiness and inefficiency ; addiction to antiquity can result in obscurity and a tedious nostalgia .
5 Care should be taken that the same classification method is used for all samples plotted , particularly if data are obtained from other , workers , as different classifications can result in variation of the position of plotted points ( and hence composition ) ( Zuffa , 1985 ) .
6 Several amino acids , as well as being necessary building blocks for the synthesis of proteins , are also powerful neurotransmitters , and their presence in excess can result in disruption of the electrical activity of the nerve cells .
7 Contravention of other provisions can result in prosecution either summarily or on indictment .
8 Low to medium ventilation rates can result in formaldehyde concentration of more than 1 PPM .
9 However , the following dialogue noted during a classroom observation , demonstrates how a teacher 's insensitivity can result in conflict with Afro-Caribbean young people .
10 Intercourse in any position can result in pregnancy .
11 A ‘ zig-zag ’ tree structure can result from building from a list such as : cat , doggy , catch , dogged , cot , dog , cots , do .
12 The concentrations of DDT and PCB residues reported in many studies of dolphin and porpoise tissues have been shown experimentally to cause lowered fertility and premature births in both seals and sealions. exposure to PCBs can result in failure of the body 's immune system .
13 Dealing the drug can result in life imprisonment .
14 Injury of the oesophageal mucosa can result from exposure to refluxed gastric acid and pepsin .
15 The greater variability in the reproductive success of males could just be a random result : by chance some individuals will meet more mates than do others , and this will have a larger effect on the variability of reproduction of males , because in males more of the random encounters can result in mating .
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