Example sentences of "result was [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that we were dangerously isolated with a strong coalition arrayed against us , but fortunately our opponents overplayed their hand . |
| 2 | The result was that we all kept making surreptitious trips to the staff room to refill our plastic beakers . |
| 3 | The result was that we were much more competitive in the second-half . |
| 4 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 5 | One obvious result was that they became more self-conscious and defensive , aware of the dangers of making mistakes . |
| 6 | ' The result was that they were both happy and wished they had voiced their opinions many years earlier . |
| 7 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 8 | The result was that they could almost be read as things more real than the things they qualified , a pattern of eternal forms from another world , not part of the solid world of cabbages and pears — yellow and violet , blue and orange , red and green . |
| 9 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 10 | They were n't inherently toxic or dangerous , but they were misused , and instead of calling for an ambulance people would have another squirt of the inhaler down their throat and the result was that they unfortunately died . |
| 11 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 12 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 13 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 14 | The significance of that result was that it was only Wales 's third win in five seasons in the competition . |
| 15 | Rain thought she was trying for a dramatic effect , but she was a poor actress and the result was that she looked petulant . |
| 16 | There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up . |
| 17 | The result was that I chaired a session and I got Pam Mills from the BBC to speak at it and everyone agreed it was one of the best sessions of the conference . |
| 18 | The result was that I was painfully shy . |
| 19 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 20 | Nobody had said what Marcus should do : the result was that he appeared to do little or nothing , spoke minimally and was increasingly reluctant to leave his bedroom or the house . |
| 21 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |