Example sentences of "result of a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of a recent upgrade in Sanga-Sanga 's reserves , LASMO 's share in the Package IV sales agreements will increase from the current 25 per cent . |
| 2 | The application of pressure to nominally dry carbon-free samples reduces the electrical conductivity as a result of a progressive reduction in pore connectivity , whereas the carbon-bearing samples show an increase in conductivity under the same conditions — an effect that we ascribe to reconnection of carbon conduction pathways during compaction . |
| 3 | Constipation develops gradually in some children as a result of a progressive decrease in the frequency of bowel movements and a progressive increase in the difficulties in passing an excessively firm stool . |
| 4 | Dowty Aerospace is making three hundred workers redundant — the company says it 's the result of a worldwide slump in the aircraft industry . |
| 5 | Ershad , 60 , first came to power as the result of a bloodless coup in 1982 [ see pp. 31501-02 ] ; he assumed the presidency the following year [ see pp. 32919-20 ] , and in November 1986 he was elected to the post for a five-year term [ see p. 34813 ] . |
| 6 | Nevertheless Salah 's achievement was the result of a complex exercise in oasis politics : first , he had to establish the general principle that women are worthy of education . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely from this work that ulcerative colitis is a result of a primary defect in butyrate metabolism . |
| 8 | So his self-image , as well as his confidence , took a mauling in the late Eighties , when his muscles started to degenerate as a result of a lingering disease in his knee . |
| 9 | Between February and October the Labour and Tory votes both fell , and Labour 's parliamentary success was merely the result of a greater slump in the Tory vote . |
| 10 | The government said that the country faced a shortage of 1,000,000 tonnes of rice as a result of a poor harvest in 1990 caused by drought and an insufficient supply of fertilizer . |
| 11 | In the same year , as the result of a freak accident in the Alps , Steve 's friend Georges Bettembourg perished . |
| 12 | However , this change has been brought about almost entirely by the increase in the long-term unemployed rather than an increase in the living standards of older people in the lowest income groups ; it is not the result of a vast increase in the incomes of older people . |
| 13 | Helicobacter pylori related hypergastrinaemia is the result of a selective increase in gastrin 17 |
| 14 | In a further government upheaval on Jan. 28 , Antonio Ermán González resigned as Economy Minister , together with his deputy , Carlos Carvallo , and the president of the Central Bank , Javier González Fraga , as the result of a sharp fall in the austral against the US dollar . |
| 15 | In some people whose immunological defences are weakened , either by the effect of drugs , cancer , or as a result of a congenital defect in antibody production , the fungus can invade the external skin surface , which is resistant to such infection under normal circumstances . |
| 16 | It is uncertain whether these small shorthorns were simply the result of a gradual diminution in size of the earlier British cattle , possibly from a combination of selection and lack of nutrition , or were imported from Europe in the Bronze Age . |
| 17 | Some of the change in grassland area is also the result of a downward trend in the area of land under cereals in Cantal ( Table 7 ) which has declined to over half its 1955 area . |
| 18 | This is largely the result of a dramatic increase in the level of reported and detected crime over the same period , though it also reflects decisions by the police and prosecuting authorities to deal with such offenders by means of prosecuting them instead of cautioning them or taking no further action . |
| 19 | Perhaps more ominously , he comments that the trade had recently declined , largely as a result of a dramatic drop in cloth taken by the East India Company for export markets . |
| 20 | Joyce 's drawling nasal delivery ( the result of a broken nose in his schooldays ) attracted widespread interest in Britain , where no restrictions were placed on listening to enemy broadcasts , and he was quickly dubbed ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ , a kind of malign Bertie Wooster ( see Sir P. G. Wodehouse , q.v. ) , whose opinions were a subject only for entertainment . |
| 21 | The latter change seems to have been mainly the result of a large rise in revenues collected ( and disbursed ) by pension funds , which was partly the consequence of an improvement in pension benefits . |
| 22 | The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , both operating profit from continuing operations — down 23.4% to £9.5m — and earnings per share — down 85.1% to 1.3 pence , or 32.8% to 8 pence , if restructuring costs are n't taken into consideration — have suffered as a result of a significant downturn in performance of the defence business . |
| 24 | For 1990 as a whole real growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell to zero from 5.2 per cent in 1989 , largely as a result of a drastic fall in trade with the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation . |
| 26 | The association seen in our study may be the result of a shared phenotype in patients prone to develop the disease . |
| 27 | In this account Althusser has challenged the idea that radical social changes such as revolutions — which he treats as a blueprint for change in general — are the result of a single contradiction in society . |
| 28 | Supporting Hackman and Oldham 's pessimism are the results of a large-scale experiment in the United States , along the lines of the Tavistock study reported earlier in this chapter . |
| 29 | Our IS900-PCR results are broadly consistent with the results of a recent study in which IS900-PCR was used to detect M paratuberculosis directly in DNA extracts from full thickness samples of human gut wall obtained from 103 people living in southern England . |
| 30 | In 1845 he published in vol. vi of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England the results of a successful experiment in cultivating swedes to determine what would happen when the essential constituents of a plant were supplied to ‘ barren ’ land . |