Example sentences of "the result [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reality , of course , they are the result of a long chain of conscious decision making . |
| 2 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 3 | However , the Medical Officer wrote : ‘ A preferred standard of 50 mg/litre is the result of a long established consensus amongst scientists in the United Kingdom and internationally , ’ although ‘ transient excursions ’ above that level would have no importance ‘ in relation to the postulated role of nitrate in causation of cancer , since in this context the long-term average content is the significant figure . |
| 4 | It must be very galling for the KGB and GRU , having secured some seemingly important technical secret from the West as the result of a long , complex , covert operation , to see it wasted simply because Russian industry is quite incapable of utilising it . |
| 5 | What I am today is the result of a long process . |
| 6 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 7 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 8 | The funeral , attended by President Turgut Özal , was the result of a long campaign for the rehabilitation of Menderes , led by the ruling Motherland Party and the opposition True Path Party . |