Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] a result " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies . |
| 2 | Stack-oriented computers may set a condition code in the top element of the stack as a result of a test or comparison instruction ; a jump instruction is then provided to jump conditional on the state of this top element ( removing the element after testing ) . |
| 3 | It has been said that the Court should consider an interim sum ‘ which would alleviate or mitigate the sufferings or hardships of the pursuer as a result of the injuries during the interim period until the case is finally decided ’ but , more recently , some judges have been persuaded that there is no reason why the interim payment should be restricted to the period up to the date of Proof and that if some estimate of the full value of the claim can be made , the pursuer is entitled to receive a significant portion thereof . |
| 4 | Victorin Hameni Bieleu , a leading member of the opposition , said that many parties believed that the RDPC would take complete control of the Assembly as a result and predicted a boycott of the elections " if things continue like this " . |
| 5 | Its end came only at the end of the century as a result of the Elementary Education ( Blind and Deaf Children ) Act which became law in 1903 . |
| 6 | If we are expecting a good level of practice from proprietors , whether private proprietors or statutory , then we have not to expect them to be out of pocket at the end of the day as a result . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One defect was that it required proof of the likelihood of a breach of the peace as a result of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 9 | Nor was the industrial landscape represented solely in the great towns , for between them stretched miles of torn and poisoned countryside — the mountains of waste from mining and other industries ; the sheets of sullen water , known as ‘ flashes ’ , which had their origin in subsidence of the surface as a result of mining below ; the disused pit-shafts ; the derelict and stagnant canals . |
| 10 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 11 | In this case the local authority seeks to transfer a proportion of the appreciation in the value of the land as a result of planning approval being granted to the benefit of the community at large . |
| 12 | In line with these more specific uses of the ‘ past ’ by specific groups , Goody 's claims for changes in perceptions of the past as a result of the development of literacy in classical Greece appear to refer specifically to scholars and intellectuals rather than to the society as a whole . |
| 13 | 2 In the event of the Manager ceasing to be an employee or Director of the Company as a result of dismissal or retirement [ or redundancy ] [ or death ] there shall be deemed to have been given a Transfer Notice in respect of his entire holding of shares and the price of such shares shall be : ( a ) if a dismissal or retirement [ or redundancy ] [ or death ] shall occur prior to … the lower of cost and Market Value ; or ( b ) if the dismissal or retirement [ or death ] shall occur at any time after … |
| 14 | Occasionally , employers argue that a prolonged illness ‘ frustrates ’ the contract , so that the job comes to an end through operation of the law as a result of the unforeseen occurrence of the sickness , without there being a dismissal . |
| 15 | The Government are deeply concerned that they may lose seats south of the border as a result of the community charge . |
| 16 | It appears that there have been major changes in the rationale and operation of the MTFS as a result of the effects of financial innovation , which would indeed seem to suggest a degree of discretion is necessary in policy actions . |
| 17 | Scotch Whisky companies support employment in various sectors of the economy as a result of their sourcing of raw materials , manufactured and service inputs to their production process . |
| 18 | A further potential thinning mechanism which has received considerable support since the late 1970s is the stretching of the lithosphere as a result of sustained tensional stress ( Fig. 4.12 ) . |
| 19 | It is also important that the substituted items should belong to the same syntactic class ; that is , there should be no change in the syntactic structure of the frame as a result of the substitution . |
| 20 | THE publication last week of the National Radiological Protection Board 's assessment that some 260 people may have caught cancer of the thyroid as a result of a fire at the Windscale plutonium pile in 1957 has been greeted with anger by the British nuclear industry . |
| 21 | In humans another example of classical conditioning is the fear of the dark as a result of being frightened as a child ( perhaps by a sibling ) . |
| 22 | Few people enter care on the spur of the moment as a result of a catastrophe . |
| 23 | In particular , disruption of the network as a result of conflict was a matter of great political sensitivity , making the railways vulnerable to the sort of external attack that both unions and management were constantly concerned to deflect . |
| 24 | Tobacco , cacao plants ( for chocolate ) and tea were other plants that were established as cash crops in new parts of the world as a result of this programme . |
| 25 | This ‘ doctrine invented in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century ’ was then exported to other parts of the world as a result of colonial expansion , and this — rather than any popular revolt against colonial rule — accounts for the nationalist movements of the twentieth century , led by nationalist intellectuals who are ‘ marginal ’ to their own societies . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman will also know that there is a recession in many other parts of the world as a result of the general world trading conditions . |
| 27 | Fortunately , enormous progress has been made in the understanding and treatment of the disorder as a result of research on animals . |
| 28 | Also numerous parcels now belonged to the great religious foundations of the region as a result of pious donations ; if many of these were tenanted in conjunction with other , larger holdings , they were unavailable for small men , while there were not enough of the big farmers , who did occupy them , to employ more than a very limited number of servants . |
| 29 | There are thought to be risks of developing cancer of the breast or lining of the womb as a result of HRT , and it is not recommended if there is a family history of heart disease , breast or womb cancer , or if you have high blood pressure , blood clotting problems , a heart disorder or gall bladder disease . |
| 30 | The court ordered disclosure to B. , for use on the hearing of the reference , of all witness statements and documents in the possession of the authority as a result of the investigation , on his implied undertaking not to use the disclosed documents otherwise than for the purposes of pursuing his criminal appeal on the reference , assurances having been given to informants that statements would not ordinarily be used otherwise than for the investigation of the complaint or for any criminal or disciplinary proceedings which might follow . |