Example sentences of "[modal v] have result from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although islands may be formed by a variety of processes , such as vulcanism , tectonic movements and accumulation , many of the world 's present islands must have resulted from the Post-glacial rise of sea level . |
| 2 | At the time when rent levels were falling , some less profitable land also went out of cultivation ( although the extent of this is hard to measure ) , so it is clear that the fall in rents must have been due to a shortage of potential tenants rather than to a greater supply of land , which might have resulted from the clearance of forest or the reclamation of fenland . |
| 3 | The sediment volume measured could have resulted from a long past phase of forest clearance in an upstream catchment — or a more recent event in a completely different location altogether . |
| 4 | Building firm G Rhodes and Son , who put it in place , said the problem could have resulted from the shed 's location below a bank which could have caused winds to form a vacuum behind it , pulling the roof off . |
| 5 | This may have resulted from a number of factors : progressive stripping of the upper soil horizons , gullying or the introduction of plough agriculture . |
| 6 | As described in the previous section , this may have resulted from a decrease in the number of elderly people using buses following the introduction in September 1991 of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 7 | This may have resulted from the natural shyness of these wives . |
| 8 | Deformation of the weak Tibetan crust and flow in the upper mantle may have resulted from the north-south squeezing generated by plate convergence . |
| 9 | These are all offences of endangerment , in the sense that no harm need have resulted from the dangerous behaviour . |
| 10 | He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs . |
| 11 | It might perhaps be wondered why , when the locks were being renovated in 1909 , the opportunity was not taken to adapt the side-ponds , to combine the need to re-fill the lock quickly with the kind of water economy which would have resulted from the more conventional side-pond system . |
| 12 | Rather belatedly , Crick and Linsley ( 1983 ) estimated that a total of 20 ‘ health effects ’ ( cancer deaths plus hereditary effects in the first two generations ) would have resulted from the accident . |
| 13 | Such calculations take absolutely no account of the increased taxation and inflation which would have resulted from the pursuit of the policy that the hon. Gentleman is advocating . |
| 14 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |