Example sentences of "was a result [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This use of hair as a symbol of social disorder reflects Benthall 's contention ( 1976 ) that an obsessive interest in the body was a result of people turning to its use as a medium of expression , because of their individual inability to shape modern technological and bureaucratic society . |
| 2 | Speaking from their Isle of Man home where they live as tax exiles , Sangster 's wife , Susan , firmly denied that the sale of Manton was a result of her husband 's reduced stature in the bloodstock world . |
| 3 | The occupation of the West Bank was a result of a war launched by third parties . |
| 4 | The Labour Party 's confusion was a result of the rapid change of events . |
| 5 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 6 | This , in turn , was a result of the fact that most of the community were illiterate . |
| 7 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 8 | As ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ was a direct result of public demand , so the single from the album , ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , was a result of public request . |
| 9 | The Thirties depression was a result of the US banking system disintegrating and the money supply collapsing by half in just a couple of years . |
| 10 | The fact that Courier was playing for the trophy was a result of Saturday 's magnificent doubles victory by Sampras and McEnroe , whose emotional , fist-pumping speech inspired a remarkable comeback . |
| 11 | She maintains that her own fear of the sea was a result of the tragedy . |
| 12 | The sudden blindness was a result of Batten disease , a rare , inherited disorder of the nervous system that had already left Christopher with great difficulty in speaking . |
| 13 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 14 | Her contention that this event was a result of a twofold plot of the Duc d'Orléans and the Illuminati , organized from Germany , was heavily criticized by several reviewers . |
| 15 | He denied that the decision was a result of Metrologie 's lingering debts . |
| 16 | Increased capital mobility was a result of a number of factors . |
| 17 | Consequently the policy of expanding and then contracting demand , which came to be known as ‘ stop — go ’ , was a result of the direct conflict between the employment and balance of payments objectives since control over the level of aggregate demand was relied upon in order to achieve both goals . |
| 18 | This was with the engine running , so I assume that the wing drop was a result of the slip stream effect from the propeller . |
| 19 | The Russian Government had purchased firearms , and the plaintiff claimed that this was a result of influence he had exerted ; if this were true , he would be entitled to commission on the sale value . |
| 20 | The conflict arose over the way in which the courts were administered and was a result of the application of managerial principles propagated by the Thatcher administrations of the 1980s . |
| 21 | Carrefour smelled the burning flesh of his memory once more , but was no longer sure whether it was truly his memory or was a result of the hole in his chest . |
| 22 | A 10% drop ( to £11.3m ) in DK 's children 's books sales was a result of increased competition from what chairman and chief executive Peter Kindersley called a glut of ‘ me too ’ non-fiction in the US , inspired by DK 's extraordinary success in this genre and all vying for a place on the 10% of shelf space allotted by bookshops to children 's books ( including fiction , he pointed out ) . |
| 23 | The next crisis in inter-communist relations was a result of the attempt by the Dubček leadership in Czechoslovakia to establish an alternative model of socialism , one that accorded more closely with the humanistic and democratic traditions of their country . |
| 24 | This was a result of pressure brought to bear on the Home Secretary by the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women and the NVA , concerned about fresh revelations in the press over the white slave traffic . |
| 25 | When in 1913 Alison Neilans of the Ladies ' National Association announced that ‘ we and our former antagonists can work cordially together ’ , Wilson explained that the olive branch was a result of the change of heart among medics and their new expansive definition of health . |
| 26 | It also enabled the Soviet Union to pursue a more active policy towards developing countries in order to take advantage of the rapid decolonisation which followed in the wake of the Second World War , none of which , with the exception of North Vietnam , was a result of action by local Communist forces . |
| 27 | Similarly , in El Salvador , the formation of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación-Farabundo Martí ( forerunner of the current FMLN ) in 1970 was a result of a bitter factional fight within the Salvadoran Communist party over revolutionary tactics , the final split being provoked by the party 's backing for the 1969 four-day war against Honduras ( Dunkerley : 1982 , pp. 87–102 ) . |
| 28 | It was his first offence , and Maureen feels it was a result of family and work pressure . |
| 29 | If client experience did not change , it was important to know whether this was a result of the failure of the experimental service to work , or a failure to properly create the experimental service . |
| 30 | Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group . |