Example sentences of "a result [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He still feels he could eke out a result without him .
2 As a result during and since the 1960s , sociology degree courses have increased considerably , sociology has found its way into schools , sociologists have been increasingly recognised and consulted by various organisations , from national government downwards , in research programmes , policy planning etc. , and some sociologists have also found fame in the national media .
3 As a result during the rest of the summer he could make little headway against the officials whom Henry left in charge of Aquitaine when he once again turned his attention to the north .
4 This procedure can fail to produce a result under extremes of lighting due to spreading if it is too bright or the exposure cut-off if it is too dim .
5 Every year in Britain , ninety million working days are lost as a result off undue stress in the workplace .
6 Here when a worker suffers mental of physical problems as a result off stress at work , the first thing he or she does is reach for his lawyer .
7 I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director .
8 What we we got a result over that .
9 As a result of preparatory work , programmes will be starting in the next few months in Uganda and Tanzania .
10 Over the next twelve months we will be providing support to a growing number of new and existing local programmes , identified as a result of an extensive survey we have just completed .
11 In April AI called on the Mauritanian Government to investigate reports that up to 200 political prisoners had died or been killed in military or police custody — some executed without trial and many others as a result of torture .
12 There has been a marked increase in reports of deaths as a result of torture in Turkish police stations .
13 Their cases were featured in a British Section Christmas card campaign in 1990 and they received 1,704 cards as a result of the appeal .
14 Along with the thousands of appeal letters sent as a result of Amnesty 's campaign , perhaps the clearest direct pressure is being exerted by the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium , made up of donor governments and multi-lateral institutions .
15 The leadership of the state knew in large measure what was wanted : it was part of the national — popular consciousness as well as being itself a result of the convention between church and Irish parliamentary party in the previous century .
16 As has been seen , partially as a result of Cardinal Cullen 's nineteenth-century reforms , the church became more organized and developed in its numbers of clergy and religious .
17 The boys barricaded the gates and mounted the city walls , a move probably as much a result of a popular rebellion against Lundy 's action as a defiant gesture .
18 Keg bitters and lager have been enormously successful for the brewers not as a result of genuine consumer demand but due to saturation advertising .
19 Those profits are generated in part as a result of expensive marketing .
20 The Campaign won media attention as a result of its outspoken criticism of the state of British beer , backed by punchy public relations , marches , demonstrations and the launch of the Good Beer Guide , which listed those pubs that still sold ‘ the real thing ’ .
21 As a result of the constant remodelling of premises through the period , most of the Victorian pub interiors which survive are late 19th century in date , and most attempts to create ‘ Victorian ’ interiors concentrate on the grander survivals ; this , combined with the common inability to create a sympathetic design , has led to a stereotype of the Victorian pub which is inaccurate .
22 My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later .
23 As a result of this incident , I am very cautious and rarely drive above 80 k.p.h. ( 50 m.p.h. ) with a loaded trailer .
24 Statistically these deaths largely occur as a result of the inhalation of vomit and alcoholic poisoning , and it therefore seems somewhat bizarre for the police to be in charge of those suffering in such a way .
25 As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of
26 His inquiries and interpretations will inevitably draw polluting and contaminating ideas to the surface , for they are a result of his place as an ‘ institutional shaman ’ and mirror his position as a liminal mover in the organization .
27 As a result of the primacy of the statistical world we now inhabit , the quantity of detections obtained by each detective through the ‘ write-off ’ , ‘ the NFA detection ’ , or ‘ the TIC ’ becomes all important .
28 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 .
29 The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad .
30 So perhaps my overkill misses the target : perhaps the behaviourist analysis of perception is sound , even though a general behaviourism is not , and what BS lacks is not knowledge of the nature of certain mental states , but only the ability to respond spontaneously to visual stimuli , that is , to respond as a result of actually seeing them .
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