Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a result [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by 7700 B.P. Calluna heaths expanded , presumably as a result of soil acidification and podsolisation . |
| 2 | I am thinking of domestics , porters and maintenance staff , who are grossly underpaid and who are suffering badly as a result of administration of hospital trusts and the attempts to break away from the national negotiating machinery . |
| 3 | Rectal discharge may occur rarely as a result of infection of the back passage , but again infection of this site is usually asymptomatic . |
| 4 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 5 | A simple headache may be just that — perhaps as a result of tension or over-tiredness . |
| 6 | It has come about entirely as a result of privatisation . |
| 7 | All schools could identify additional resources , ( for instance , computers , a music laboratory , enhanced INSET , staff ) that had been purchased and which were perceived to be available entirely as a result of devolution . |
| 8 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 9 | However , the practice is condemned in a recent announcement made by the Vatican on Respect for Human Life in its Origins and on the Dignity of Procreation , which permits a child to be conceived only as a result of intercourse within marriage . |
| 10 | The word ‘ obtained ’ had to be given its broader meaning ie. one could obtain not only as a result of purpose or effort , but also through passive receipt or acceptance . |
| 11 | If prevention of future misconduct occurs , it does so as a result of negotiation rather than the deterrence which ( presumably ) inhibits future rule-breaking in a sanctioning system . |
| 12 | [ 2 ] During 1991 and 1992 , these initial recommendations were greatly revised and reorganised , largely as a result of work carried out in a number of small specialist work groups , set up following a detailed technical review meeting held in November 1991. [ 3 ] A second draft ( P2 ) began publication as a series of electronic fascicles in April 1992 , and is due for completion in July 1993 , following a further technical review in May , and presentation to the TEI 's Advisory Board in June . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Askoli suffers a 50 per cent child mortality rate , largely as a result of gastro-enteritis . |
| 15 | Thirty per cent of the drinking water in Uzbekistan fails to meet minimum health standards , largely as a result of contamination by industrial waste . |
| 16 | One effect of this increased optimism over was a noticeable cooling of relations between Syria and the PLO , largely as a result of Palestinian fears that Syria might be tempted to negotiate a separate peace deal with Israel . |
| 17 | The number of bird species indigenous to the island has fallen from 32 in 1916 to 13 today , largely as a result of trapping . |
| 18 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 19 | In the 1980s there has been an important adjustment in both exchange rates and agricultural pricing policy largely as a result of pressure from international aid agencies . |
| 20 | The single brightest area of engineering at the moment is the car industry , largely as a result of investment by Nissan , Honda and Toyota . |
| 21 | WASHINGTON — The city 's infant mortality rate has surged to the level of some Third World countries , largely as a result of cocaine-addiction among young women , writes John Lichfield . |
| 22 | A lot of patient moves within Friern and Claybury would take place anyway as a result of ward mergers and relocation in line with continuing retrenchment . |
| 23 | There was rarely any sign of the village breaking up physically as a result of enclosure , whatever happened to it spiritually and culturally . |
| 24 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 25 | The foundation , which has adopted the principles and guidelines of the German-based International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements , aims to provide assistance and education to private farmers , whose numbers are growing rapidly as a result of land reform and the breaking up of collective farms . |
| 26 | These developments took place against a backdrop of a wider Europe which was changing rapidly as a result of superpower détente and the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe . |
| 27 | Touche Ross has drawn attention to the fact that the amounts attributable to individual players can fluctuate rapidly as a result of selection policy , personal form/injury , international representation and other matters . |
| 28 | It was probably due to muscle spasm and ligament strain , possibly as a result of lack of general fitness and poor sleep . |
| 29 | It is thought that they developed in the oceans , possibly as a result of chance combinations of atoms into large structures , called macromolecules , which were capable of assembling other atoms in the ocean into similar structures . |
| 30 | Surveys in various parts of the world have revealed that many species of fungi , including mushrooms , are dying out , possibly as a result of acid pollution . |