Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] result " in BNC.

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1 The cancer had spread from the breast to various other areas including the bones and she was as a result suffering considerable pain which was not controlled by pain-killers .
2 It was as a result of this new approach that Haslam found himself in the Plastics Division , a more glamorous part of ICI , in contrast to the Nobel Division he had recently left .
3 She claims it was as a result of hearing herself say , ‘ coom on , buzz , ’ while waiting in a bus shelter .
4 One major worry was finance : in the years when deficits were avoided , it was as a result of stringent economies , such as unpaid overtime in the District Office and restrictions on the course programme .
5 It was as a result of this withdrawal that I was invited to write the paper ( Currie , 1979 ) .
6 If he was persecuted , it was as a result of his avoiding persecution .
7 In fact , when peace was briefly restored it was as a result of the divisions and recriminations among the baronage after Gaveston 's murder .
8 It was as a result of the Russian advance across the Urals that many Mansis and Khantys moved away from their homes , the latter crossing the Ob into the middle part of its basin , while some of the Selkups who had lived on the Ob , as well as Kets on the Yenisei , moved off to the north .
9 No criticism of the appellants is to be made in that respect because , alive to the problem , they had applied to the registrar for directions ; it was as a result of his directions , which I do not question for a moment , that the appeal came before this court .
10 Clearly this is based , at least in part , on the documents they obtained in the Middle East country ; and clearly the inference can be fairly drawn that it was as a result of this information that the Federal Reserve Board alerted the Bank of England .
11 It was as a result of the discovery that the Parliamentary history of the legislation gave conclusive support to the construction I preferred that your Lordships agreed that the matter should be re-argued to determine whether it was permissible to use the Parliamentary history as an aid to the interpretation of the legislation .
12 Miller was unstinting in the service of the Bristol Institution and it was as a result of his efforts that the museum — a precursor of the later City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery — became firmly established .
13 All three , it turned out , were close friends of Ron Martz , and it was as a result of this meeting that Martz and Burchette visited Coleman at UAB to solicit his help with their Cyprus trip .
14 According to Mecdi , Ecezade won Selim 's regard and affection while the latter was governor in Trabzon ; and it is certainly implicit that it was as a result of this affection that Ecezade received the kadiliks of Selanik and Bursa .
15 It was as a result of such criticisms that the Plowden Report was published in 1961 ( Plowden 1961 ) .
16 It was as a result of studying individual literary works that preceding types of literary study had been led astray into adjacent disciplines .
17 It was as a result of those surveys that we pinpointed two and , later , three farms and that is where the detailed tests are being carried out .
18 He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded .
19 ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’
20 Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two .
21 Mr Armstrong said : ‘ It was as a result of this defendant coming clean that these proceedings were brought .
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