Example sentences of "a result [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEALINK Stena and P&O may be forced to scrap ferries as a result of more stringent safety regulations adopted by the International Maritime Organisation . |
| 2 | As a result of more stringent regulations on atmospheric pollution , new measures had to be taken to ensure the safety of the company 's employees and also of the surrounding environment . |
| 3 | This trade carried on for many years , but as a result of more advantageously located competition , it finally ceased working in about 1930 . |
| 4 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 5 | But it was also , and perhaps primarily , a result of more general changes in social organization and in the mode of production . |
| 6 | State revenues increased by 82 per cent , largely as a result of more efficient tax collection . |
| 7 | As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely . |
| 8 | This was despite growing evidence that birth rates are falling in key third world states simply as a result of more widespread availability of contraceptives . |
| 9 | An analysis of data collected over the past 50 years by national forestry ministries shows , however , that there has been a sharp decline in the volume of boreal wood " and hence the capacity to absorb carbon dioxide " since the 1960s , as a result of more intensive logging and increased dieback because of the effects of acid rain , pests and fires . |
| 10 | It was anticipated that port performance would improve as a result of more intense competition and that jobs would be created ( upwards of 50,000 ) as a result of investment , redevelopment and rejuvenation of ailing dockland areas . |