Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] as the result " in BNC.

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1 There was until recently one situation in which the Monarch might be called upon to exercise a degree of discretion but even this has now in practice been removed as the result of party political developments that took place between 1957 and 1965 …
2 As an alternative , Cannon proposed a centralist theory in which emotion was seen as the result of activating specific mechanisms in the central nervous system .
3 Importantly , Gramsci did not believe that consent was produced as the result of a ruling class conspiracy to hoax the workers ; for him , ideologies arose out of the material realities within which human beings live and work .
4 The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule .
5 In the first phase , nationalism emerged as the result of State formation ; in the second , the State was created as the result of a nationalist opposition to external competition or oppression .
6 The school was founded as the result of a bequest made by a local landowner , John Elkington Esq , and a copy of his will , dated 2 April 1604 , is in the possession of the present owners of the school , Mr and Mrs Goddard .
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