Example sentences of "a result [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As a result of such activities , teachers ' centres have found themselves closely involved in a variety of support activities relevant to the development of resource.based learning .
2 He noted that she 'd had numerous stomach pumps as a result of such accidents in the past , and someone should have cared .
3 As a result of such visits , restructuring in various forms , from the cosmetic to the fundamental , has been frequent within BGS since the mid-1970s .
4 It may well be that , as a result of such descriptions , the researcher , or other people , develop theories about why the people concerned behave as they do .
5 It was as a result of such criticisms that the Plowden Report was published in 1961 ( Plowden 1961 ) .
6 As a result of such differences there was sometimes friction between those waiting to be purged and the permanent staff .
7 Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence .
8 As a result of such returns , for example , the heart drug Corwin ( xamoterol fumarate ) is presently in danger of withdrawal from the UK market .
9 In 1982–83 nearly 800 children in England and Wales were made the subject of care orders as a result of divorce or other family proceedings and the cumulative number of children in care as a result of such orders was more than 7000 , costing approximately £400 million a year ( Family Courts Campaign , 1986 ) .
10 And the central point about localities is that they provide the context in which these combinations of social processes take place and in which people act as a result of such combinations .
11 Many of the fancier varieties ( eg Bubble Eyes , Ranchus and Orandas ) are a result of many generations of selective breeding and require the constant conditions which can be provided with care in an indoor aquarium .
12 The first ornamental ware to be developed by Josiah Wedgwood in 1768 was Black Basalt , a result of many experiments to improve the rather crude ‘ Egyptian Black ’ wares already made by some Staffordshire potters .
13 Subject membership is a hard-won achievement — a result of many years of studying and exploring that subject through school , through university and through teacher training .
14 Readers will note a small discrepancy between the total given in the graph and the latest figure , a result of some services for 1990 being notified to headquarters after the preparation of the Annual Report .
15 John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland .
16 Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover .
17 The respect once given to older people for their knowledge and experience has suffered as a result of several factors : the decline of custom , the acceleration of change and the loss of oral traditions .
18 The contribution of the comprehensive system to the improvement in attainment measured in terms of performance in the examinations for the Scottish Certificate of Education ( SCE ) at 16 , 17 and 18 , comes as a result of several factors .
19 By contrast the ancient or classical stage , which was characterized by the city states of antiquity , arose as a result of several tribes coming together to form a city .
20 As a result of several sessions of classroom observation , homework now emerged as a source of dissatisfaction to the Senior Management Team , in terms both of the amount done and marked , and its quality and scope .
21 This provision was established as a result of several pressures , not least of all parental lobbying for an alternative option to adult training centres .
22 As a result of these findings Glaxo stopped clinical trials comparing ranitidine with omeprazole for ethical reasons .
23 It said that as a result of these investigations the committee was satisfied that there was no evidence of Londonderry Corporation being guilty of discrimination .
24 As a result of these limits , the maximum divisive ratio is 80dB or 10,000:1 , enough for 99% of jobs .
25 As a result of these liabilities , it is not practical to think that AEA as a whole could be privatised .
26 As a result of these conclusions , Ingeominas , the counterpart organisation , will now direct its exploration strategy throughout the western flank of the Cordillera Occidental towards locating major mudflow deposits on radar and satellite imagery and working upstream from these to potential source areas of bonanza lode-gold deposits .
27 If changes are not made as a result of these surveys then such enterprises may lose credibility and be seen as a diversionary tactic .
28 As a result of these feelings , users may do their best to ensure that the computer system will not succeed .
29 As a result of these developments in microelectronics , the annual use of computing power increased by about 2000 times in the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 .
30 As a result of these developments it is possible to make three claims regarding the miracles in the Synoptic Gospels :
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