Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a result " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the child has become lost or frightened as a result of parental neglect , then the adult in question may expect to be admonished by the fairy , who dislikes irresponsibility and carelessness . |
| 2 | She added : ‘ If her journey was delayed as a result of the plucking , the person involved will be given a roasting . |
| 3 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 4 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 5 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
| 6 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 7 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 8 | Reserve team versus Coventry last Wednesday postponed — Tinkler and Weatherall comebacks after injury/illness delayed as a result . |
| 9 | 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control . |
| 10 | If more than one yacht visited , a barbecue was set up on the beach , and many a bleary Azorian dawn was witnessed as a result . |
| 11 | In other words a capital outlay and revenue allocation will , by necessity , precede the recovery of any sums realised as a result of the reduction in long stay services . |
| 12 | This material was collected from macroscopically uninvolved areas of ascending or transverse colon ( five ) , or descending or sigmoid colon ( five ) ; the specimens had been surgically resected as a result of colonic carcinoma ( eight ) , polyposis ( one ) , or diverticulitis ( one ) . |
| 13 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 14 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 15 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% . |
| 16 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 17 | Carbenoxolone was developed as a result of a phytochemical investigation of the roots and rhizomes of liquorice ( Glycyrrhiza glabra ) , resulting in the discovery of the active factor glycyrrhizic acid ( glycyrrhizen ) . |
| 18 | The medical advances cited by Dr. Botting were not developed as a result of animal research , but clinical investigations based on human studies were far more crucial to their development . |
| 19 | These petroleum exploration ‘ parameters ’ have been developed as a result of the exploration activities of the late 1960s . |
| 20 | The back arc/foreland-basin model developed as a result of the work is being increasingly used to constrain regional geotectonic models of the collisional history of the Iapetus Suture Zone , presently being investigated in collaboration with the Newfoundland Geological Survey . |
| 21 | The voluntary hospital , the South Wing of Bedford 's new general hospital , had developed as a result of charity ; private for the most part , but also with financial support from the public sector ; the story of its development until it was combined with St. Peter 's in 1949 is the subject of the following section : |
| 22 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 23 | The increasing conflict in the East End in 1936 and the follow-up campaigns of the BUF developed as a result of the inter-action of fascist anti-semitism and Jewish counter-attack . |
| 24 | His argument is essentially that Rationalist politics developed as a result of the disintegration of traditional polities . |
| 25 | The agreement with Carleton was developed as a result of Professor Peter Buckley 's contacts in the field of International Business . |
| 26 | Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent . |
| 27 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
| 28 | In two cases these policies had been developed as a result of dialogue between the housing department and local disability organisations . |
| 29 | Developed as a result of all the efforts being poured into the LCD screens for portable computers , the LCD tablet allows anything on the computer 's screen to be projected via an overhead projector onto a conventional screen . |
| 30 | The technological innovations which have developed as a result of society 's need to adapt to new conditions have been accompanied by a new epistemology . |