Example sentences of "[prep] a result [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have the flora and vegetation always been as species-poor as today , or has this poverty developed over thousands of years during the post-glacial as a result of habitat loss , soil deterioration , or land-use change ? |
| 2 | The reserve will be farmed in a way which benefits the bird , whose UK population has been reduced to 500 pairs , largely as a result of habitat destruction due to agricultural intensification . |
| 3 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 4 | Up to four million Ethiopians in the north may face starvation next year as a result of drought , Peter Biles writes from Nairobi . |
| 5 | Australian kangaroos are being driven into wheat fields as a result of drought in their outback habitat . |
| 6 | The problem with mercury was that the curative dose was much too close to the lethal dose , and it was easy to make the patient worse as a result of treatment . |
| 7 | Survival analysis showed similar improvements in otoscopic clearance and tympanometric change as a result of treatment with a ventilation tube alone or after adenoidectomy alone compared with no surgery . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend recognise that the decision to compensate those who contracted HIV as a result of treatment through the national health service is widely welcomed ? |
| 9 | On Dec. 11 , 1990 , Major announced the allocation of a further £42,000,000 to haemophiliacs who had been infected with the AIDS virus as a result of treatment with contaminated blood products . |
| 10 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
| 11 | The significance of ‘ sticky ’ E coli in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis remains unclear but their presence in stools of colitic patients does not appear to be as a result of treatment . |
| 12 | In ulcers with a non-bleeding visible vessel , the mean rate of rebleeding was 33% in control groups , the reduction as a result of treatment 19% ( pooled rate difference ( 95% CI ) =0.19 ( 0.09 ) ) and the odds ratio 0.37 ( 95% CI=0.21 to 0.65 ) . |
| 13 | A survey showed that four out of five of Britain 's biggest firms have introduced no smoking areas at work as a result of worker pressure . |
| 14 | One example is disqualification from receiving unemployment benefit following the termination of employment as a result of misconduct ( Commissioner 's Decision R(U)2/60 ) . |
| 15 | The vast bulk of the neuropsychological work performed in the United States to investigate cognitive processes uses group studies as in , for example , the investigation of human amnesia ( severe loss of long-term memory function as a result of brain damage ) . |
| 16 | Acquired dyslexia involves a loss of reading ability as a result of brain injury . |
| 17 | George Healey was a remarkable man who devoted his whole adult life to the cause of deaf people , both in Liverpool and nationally first through the N.D.D.S. and thence the B.D.D.A. He was born in Gateacre , Liverpool and lost his hearing at the age of three months as a result of brain fever following a fall from the arms of his nurse , although his deafness was not discovered until he was two years old . |
| 18 | Prosopagnosia is a rare clinical condition in which visual recognition of faces is impaired as a result of brain damage . |
| 19 | The disorder arises as a result of brain damage , particularly of the left parietal lobe , and for the label apraxia to be applicable , the patient 's difficulties must not be due to problems in comprehending the examiner 's instructions . |
| 20 | The client is disabled as a result of brain damage when a child and was unable to work after problems with his back which are getting progressively worse . |
| 21 | ‘ … as a result of metal fatigue … ’ |
| 22 | A subcategory of gougers are ‘ mouths ’ : young people who ‘ give lip ’ , primarily as a result of drink . |
| 23 | As I mentioned earlier , this rather unusual configuration was as a result of customer specification . |
| 24 | As a result of customer demand and acquisitions , it now focusses its skills on Ingres Corp , Informix Corp , and Progress Software Corp software , plus a little Oracle-related business , although Bland said that Radius would definitely consider buying an Oracle Corp specialist . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , available evidence suggests that the tissue damage in both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease is mediated by immune mechanisms , and it is possible that our patient 's perineal disease improved as a result of thymectomy . |
| 26 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 27 | There are also standard shapes for tensile test specimens , laid down by the standards bodies ( BSI , ASTM , DIN ) in various countries , which have been developed as a result of stress analysis . |
| 28 | * Studies at a Kiev hospital of 200 people who participated in the Chernobyl clean-up reveal structural changes in the brain as a result of stress and radiation . |
| 29 | In 1982–83 nearly 800 children in England and Wales were made the subject of care orders as a result of divorce or other family proceedings and the cumulative number of children in care as a result of such orders was more than 7000 , costing approximately £400 million a year ( Family Courts Campaign , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | The provision of an adequate flat-rate pension would also prove a better vehicle than pension-splitting for dealing with the problems that are likely to face older women in the future as a result of divorce . |