Example sentences of "[adj] result was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 2 | A further interesting result was that individuals ' perception of the causes of their anxiety shifted significantly away from the belief that there was something physically wrong with them . |
| 3 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 4 | The overall result was that the demand 's on the Institute were greater than ever before without a matching increase in resources . |
| 5 | A crucial result was that cathedral and parish clergy were increasingly infiltrated by men whose loyalties looked more to the king than the pope , to the realm rather than to the church . |
| 6 | One obvious result was that they became more self-conscious and defensive , aware of the dangers of making mistakes . |
| 7 | A second result was to weaken customary control over pre-marital sexual relations and in the context of increased mobility the inevitable result was that the impulse to marry in the event of a pregnancy was either weakened or thwarted . |
| 8 | The inevitable result was that the Dumbarton element in the Rutherglen Council prevailed and their representative at the district meeting was for Dixon , although the Council was split . |
| 9 | In 1946 , however , Lean directed his first film without a Coward connection , Great Expectations , and the huge reputation and success this enjoyed coincided with the start of the long postwar decline suffered by Coward — the net result was that the writer 's contribution to the earlier films ' success became progressively marginalized , a state of affairs hardly helped by the increasing influence of French auteurist models of film analysis on British critics . |
| 10 | The net result was that Duffy finished top of group C ahead of Hong Kong 's Sammy Leung , the only player to beat the Northern Ireland champion so far . |
| 11 | The net result was that much of the energy from the Sun was reflected back out into space , so that the surface of the Earth became much cooler than it had been before . |
| 12 | West Germany objected to French being the single language of the organisation , and the net result was that the ECSC had to operate with four official languages . |
| 13 | The net result was that the High Authority , and hence the ECSC , did not seem to have any grand strategy for the future in terms of planning and coordinating coal and steel output . |
| 14 | The net result was that the stiffness distribution of the structure was significantly altered , creating the high fastener loadings which led ultimately to the fatigue failure in the rear spar top chord . |
| 15 | The net result was that Parliamentary control over the terms of the Bill was less than adequate . |
| 16 | The net result was that the United States moved during the 1970s from being 90 per cent self-sufficient in energy to importing 50 per cent of its needs . |
| 17 | The initial result was that the Conservatives had sought to counter the collectivist strategy of progressivism with a collectivism of their own , while individualist arguments had been relegated to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 18 | For our purposes , however , the most important result was that the Mortgage Act 1949 did not change fundamentally the Roman-Dutch law on parate execution . |
| 19 | Another important result was that the lower portion of the upper layer was not producing . |
| 20 | The apparently impressive result was that Sarah made distinctions of the following sort : ‘ yellow question banana ’ would be replaced with ‘ yellow colour banana ’ , or ‘ round question apple ’ with ‘ round shape apple ’ . |
| 21 | The immediate result was that Sir Denys invited Colin Short , former treasurer of Chevron , the US oil company , to become ICI 's finance director . |