Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] of [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year the number of special subject dictionaries increases , and today they range from popular interests such as Christian names to works with more limited appeal , such as A Dictionary of Fairies by Katharine Briggs ( London 1976 ) . |
| 2 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 3 | There seems little probability of a resurrection of residential provision on a large scale although the number of specialist facilities may increase , mainly as a result of initiatives by voluntary associations . |
| 4 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 5 | The second alleged breach happened less than three weeks later where , as a result of actions by CEGB inspection team , a 2.5 tonne component was dropped 27 feet . |
| 6 | The second hypothesis is that profitable entry has been deterred by the existence of barriers to entry which have arisen either as a result of actions by the incumbent public sector supplier or as a result of the technical characteristics of electricity supply . |
| 7 | It is truly amazing that in a civilized country with a government staunchly committed to law and order , or so they say , that the tax payer , you Mr President , you fellow delegates , me , and my members , our members , are left to pick up a bill amounting to millions of pounds as a result of actions by certain employers , which are , without doubt , criminal , but not against the law . |
| 8 | Only by qualifying for either the English Tourist Board crown grading and quality scheme , or one of the other nationally recognised quality schemes , can establishments be singles out with the relevant symbol and this is the result of independent , objective assessment by trained inspectors , not as a result of decisions by council staff . |
| 9 | We have announced a number of job losses over the past 12 months which have arisen as a result of er an internal cost cutting exercise to make our research more er cost effective , and also as a result of decisions by the Government and the electricity supply industry who have cut down their funding for basic research into reactor technology . |
| 10 | His two sons had already been educated at Pocklington when Yarm opened as a result of efforts by a handful of parents whose enterprise he describes as ‘ the boldest thing I have ever known . ’ |
| 11 | One book , published before Chorley and Kennedy , presented the geosystem as a single planetary system in which land , sea and air are dynamically integrated as a consequence of processes by which energy , matter and momentum are continually exchanged ( Rumney , 1970 ) . |
| 12 | Recently , much attention has been focused on the notion of a ‘ core ’ and ‘ periphery ’ workforce as a consequence of attempts by organisations to increase efficiency by adopting flexible manning arrangements . |