Example sentences of "[pers pn] were the result [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I know all about you — how your father , while still a boy , was forced by his family into an unhappy marriage with an older woman , and how you were the result of that marriage . |
| 2 | They were the result of catholic — nationalist success in establishing a separate state , so separate that the protestant tradition as a political force had been excised from the thinking of the entire catholic grouping in the South , from church to state to popular consciousness . |
| 3 | Critics , whilst accepting the reality of the dowsable lines which Underwood had discovered , generally concluded that they were the result of the physical features rather than the reverse . |
| 4 | His explanation of the shallow shelves between the islands was that they were the result of subsidence caused by volcanic activity . |
| 5 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 6 | They were the result of a meeting the previous day between Gorbachev and leaders of the 10 republics prepared to participate . |
| 7 | Shiva thought most of the folly of the world was brought about by fear and greed and to call this evil , as if it were the result of purposeful calculation and deliberate wrongdoing , was to show ignorance of human psychology . |