Example sentences of "[prep] [art] result of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some 31,700 took voluntary redundancy and a further 5,400 disappeared as the result of disposals .
2 For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole .
3 The approach to finding exact solutions that has been taken so far has involved initially solving the field equations in the interaction region IV and then investigating the conditions under which these solutions can be considered as the result of collisions of plane waves .
4 The second and opposing view treats political events as the result of forces inherent in human nature .
5 Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement .
6 The recent reform of the grounds for divorce has been mirrored as regards proceedings in magistrates ' courts by the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates ' Courts Act 1978 , a statute enacted as the result of recommendations made by the Law Commission .
7 As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published .
8 As the result of excavations a certain amount has been discovered about life in the pre-historic era , and much has been published .
9 Welford 's Cambridge group set out to identify the nature of the work for which the older worker was best suited and the most suitable methods of retraining those whose skills had become redundant as the result of modifications in the industrial process ( Welford 1951 ) .
10 In the event Firefly NF.Is , fitted with shrouded exhausts , emerged as the result of modifications to FR.Is on the production line .
11 Was that as the result of comments ?
12 Microeconomic analysis Explanations based on microeconomic analysis suggest that additional public spending can be seen as the result of governments continually intervening to correct market failure .
13 Pennings and Goodman ( 1977 ) present a systems model that also stresses internal processes : they see effectiveness as the result of coalitions and arrangements between dominant and interest groups , and the satisfaction of the participants from the efficiency of these inner processes .
14 As the result of years of breeding and cross-breeding specialised varieties have been attained specific to both size and colour .
15 In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity .
16 The decline to 1981 had involved 1217 jobs lost as a result of closures and 2218 lost from establishments reducing their work forces , with 805 gains from new establishments and 234 from establishments increasing their work forces .
17 There were troubled times ahead ; as a result of fluctuations in trade and falling profits , the clothiers tried to cut wages .
18 Controlling aggregate demand through controlling interest rates is made even more difficult as a result of fluctuations in the demand for money .
19 Recall also ( from section 3.4 ) that the quantity of bank deposits changes , ceteris paribus , as a result of flows of new bank lending .
20 The sores and ulcers that may occur as a result of STDs offer a ready route of entry for the virus .
21 As a result of controls and the land reforms which the government carried out , agricultural output slumped .
22 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 .
23 The argument that a small number of innocent people may be wrongly executed is far outweighed by the fact that thousands of innocent people are dying , being permanently maimed , or mentally scarred for life , as a result of acts of violence .
24 Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity .
25 It warns that no concessions detrimental to the environment should be made as a result of moves towards a market-orientated economy .
26 By the mid-15C as a result of epidemics , pogroms and wars , urban Jewish settlement virtually disappeared , but by the middle of the 16C there were about 1,000 Jews living in Prague .
27 However , requests from the media can also come to the PR department as a result of disasters , strikes and general controversy .
28 The said transactions and each of them were so entered into : – ( i ) in the course of the first defendant 's contravention of section 3 of the Act for the period ( July 1988 to March 1989 ) when the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned therein and/or ( ii ) as a result of contraventions of sections 47 and 57 in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned .
29 Between 1985 and 1990 , some 25,000 trainees were trained here as a result of agreements with other governments .
30 9.17 Frustration of reinstatement Landlords sometimes include a proviso that the landlord should have the right to terminate the lease in the event of reinstatement being frustrated or delayed as a result of circumstances beyond the landlord 's control .
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