Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [art] result [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reductions in time to market are the result of more subtle initiatives . |
| 2 | The breakthrough against the NPA was believed to have been a result of information seized in August 1990 when NPA operations chief Afredo Simbulan was arrested . |
| 3 | Such times are unusual , yet they do occur ; with hindsight , they often seem to have been the result of the right combination of people , time and place . |
| 4 | This has generally been assumed to have been the result of competition from the adaptively superior North American mammals , but Marshall ( 1981 ) has recently argued that at least some of the extinction was caused by changes in the physical environment . |
| 5 | It seems more likely , however , to have been the result of major historical transformations , including the separation of work from home , and the growing centrality of the individual in the economy and the general ideology , than to have derived from developments intrinsic to a landed class . |
| 6 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 7 | He went into the London Clinic for three weeks and after X-rays , blood tests and cardiographic treatment it was discovered that the disorder had no organic origin — its source was essentially a nervous one and seemed likely to have been the result of over-exertion and worry . |
| 8 | The very good performance of division reported in some cases ( Lum , Yuen and Dodd , Severance and Duhne ) , and relatively poor performance in others ( Kaimann ) , is likely to have been the result of few or many clashes of this kind . |
| 9 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 10 | The inability of water to penetrate is the result of a phenomenon known as water tension . |
| 11 | This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry . |