Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] result [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In these circumstances membership of a CU may result in large scale unemployment which could persist until the appropriate restructuring of the industrial base takes place .
2 In addition , therapeutically induced anacidity may result in bacterial overgrowth of the stomach , with consecutive displacement of H pylori .
3 Those calves which are only coughing and/or tachypnoeic are usually in the prepatent stage of the disease or have a small adult worm burden and treatment of these animals should result in rapid recovery .
4 Paradoxically , then , reduced citation visibility for authors could result in middle authorship continuing to be regarded as an earned ( and hence valued ) privilege rather than as a right , a favour , a payback , or an inconsequential bagatelle .
5 We believe that small and medium-sized companies , which tend to be the most innovative , will be persuaded to develop new technologies and that that investment will result in considerable leverage .
6 He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension .
7 Every care should be exercised in reconstruction , for inferior work may result in considerable distortion .
8 Separation may result from clinical depression and , therefore , it may aggravate or maintain a pre-existing depressive condition …
9 The fact that highly improbable circumstances could result in significant upside potential should not affect the presentation .
10 Convinced by fear that another attempt to manipulate the rigid ropes and frozen krabs at my waist would result in permanent loss of consciousness , I let Roger take over , clipping me into the belay while I lowered by head against the ice , shivering violently , numb fingers screaming with the return of feeling , struggling rationally to convince my swimming brain that this was not the final descent into hypothermic oblivion .
11 Dogmatic training techniques using only phonics or only sight vocabulary will result in restricted flexibility , and the processing of new or unfamiliar words will be impeded .
12 One bad experience could result in life-long egglessness or celibacy .
13 The council felt that the domestication of the site could result in serious danger to any inhabitants because it is near high pressure petrol and gas pipelines .
14 It becomes abundantly clear from these accounts that then as now , family support was a two-way process , and that responding to a crisis could result in intense friction as well as in deep affection .
15 However , the official message belied private concern that the prospects for fresh talks have worsened since the last Anglo-Irish meeting in July and there was little sign that the meeting would result in substantial progress .
16 One would think placing speed humps in a road and narrowing the junction would result in improved safety even after taking into consideration an anticipated increase in traffic .
17 In the largest experiment ever undertaken using the methods of integrated pest management ( IPM ) , scientists with the UN 's Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) have demonstrated that cutting back on the applications of pesticide can result in increased crop yields .
18 In each case , the normal sequence of nucleotides is altered , and the alteration can result in abnormal development .
19 Records in all media are subject to the disruption or destruction of provenance that can result , but perhaps electronic records are particularly vulnerable as a change in organisation may result in automatic change of office systems which may or may not be compatible in differing ways with the system which created the record .
20 Hurried selection may result in costly failure .
21 At this time Pöhl 's decision , and uncertainty at the prospect that higher interest rates and inflation could result from monetary union , led to unease on the otherwise buoyant West German financial markets .
22 These included suspicion that a person 's actions could result in armed robbery or ethnic conflict or could deprive a community of the " essentials of life " .
23 Strike-slip faults could result from interior contraction , though they do not reduce the surface area .
24 Nevertheless , none of the superpowers have been willing to say that they would not actually use these weapons in a second nuclear strike , on the grounds that for the deterrent to be credible the other side has to be convinced that a first nuclear strike would result in nuclear retaliation .
25 The report goes on to warn that ‘ failure to neutralise acidic waters can result in excessive corrosion of [ water ] mains with , in some areas , unacceptably high lead levels due to plumbosolvency ’ [ that is , lead in pipes being dissolved by the acidic waters . ]
26 A mis-diagnosis can result in unnecessary component removal and systems disturbance with the associated expansion of departure delay time .
27 For example , while heating of the lithosphere may account for uplift , subsidence may result from lithospheric cooling .
28 Failure to report any of these situations could result in disciplinary action .
29 They claim that the plans of the newly-established Tatra Development Corporation will result in widespread deforestation , and to large areas being blighted by the construction of motorways to service the hotels , entertainment and sports facilities planned for the site .
30 Not knowing the number of items will result in wasted space due to over allocation .
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