Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [art] result " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that 33 black Mauritanians belonging to FLAM had benefited from the recent amnesties , which were the result of " French pressure " . |
| 2 | This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition . |
| 3 | And if this seems an exaggeration then we might refer to the aims of a document entitled ‘ Information skills in the secondary curriculum ’ which was the result of the recommendations of a working group sponsored by the British Library and the Schools Council , and which embodies most of the current thinking on user education in schools . |
| 4 | The loss of reason was a just punishment for an evil life , which was the result of the misuse of reason . |
| 5 | I have already described the Croydon Corporation case , which was the result of an epidemic of typhoid , and I have mentioned my long association with the Royal College of Psychiatrists , and the fact that my only medical qualification is as an honorary fellow of that college . |
| 6 | The freedom from linguistic inhibition which was the result of linguistic freedom to operate in the mother-tongue contributed to their confidence and the success of their employers . |
| 7 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 8 | Approved by 193 votes to 39 with 33 abstentions , the new law permitted a termination during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy which was the result of rape or which endangered the life of the mother , if the foetus was malformed , or if the pregnancy would cause a " psychological crisis " or a " social problem " . |
| 9 | ‘ And I know all about you — how your father , while still a boy , was forced by his family into an unhappy marriage with an older woman , and how you were the result of that marriage . |
| 10 | She was the result of unwittingly having bred together two horses of exceptionally unobliging , unwilling , untrainable , and stubborn temperament ; to produce ‘ the worst horse in the world ’ thought Pete ruefully . |
| 11 | The first one was the result of the three month check cystoscopy either positive or negative and the second one the number of tumours at presentation either single or multiple . |
| 12 | But then at 11.10 , there was the result being read out , live , by the Torbay returning officer . |
| 13 | He said that they were a result of a positive and concerted effort by all managers and subcontractors to identify and control risks before an accident could occur . |
| 14 | They were the result of catholic — nationalist success in establishing a separate state , so separate that the protestant tradition as a political force had been excised from the thinking of the entire catholic grouping in the South , from church to state to popular consciousness . |
| 15 | Critics , whilst accepting the reality of the dowsable lines which Underwood had discovered , generally concluded that they were the result of the physical features rather than the reverse . |
| 16 | His explanation of the shallow shelves between the islands was that they were the result of subsidence caused by volcanic activity . |
| 17 | During her pregnancy , Priss had read a great deal about past mistakes in child rearing ; according to the literature , they were the result not only of ignorance , but of sheer selfishness : a nurse or a mother who gave a crying child paregoric usually did it for her own peace of mind , not wanting to be bothered . |
| 18 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 19 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 20 | They were the result , not of some unique wickedness of the age , but of the natural exigencies of a system of competitive States . |
| 21 | They were the result of a meeting the previous day between Gorbachev and leaders of the 10 republics prepared to participate . |
| 22 | Shiva thought most of the folly of the world was brought about by fear and greed and to call this evil , as if it were the result of purposeful calculation and deliberate wrongdoing , was to show ignorance of human psychology . |
| 23 | It was his first offence , and Maureen feels it was a result of family and work pressure . |
| 24 | He commented that it was a result ‘ very similar to the reaction which I have found with water from the Chalice Well at Glastonbury ’ |
| 25 | While British officials suggested that it was a result of confusion and misunderstanding in Hanoi , it was acknowledged that Vietnam had considerable reservations about the implications of the plan for its territorial sovereignty . |
| 26 | It was a result that delighted Rangers winger Pieter Huistra , who now harbours hopes of a World Cup place for himself . |
| 27 | For Chris it was a result he 'll never forget ; for Dennis a reminder that if he 's to make an impact at next month 's world championship , even he will need to do some potting practice . |
| 28 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 29 | It was the result of efforts to transfer product systematically from developed to less developed economies , while at the same time retaining the essentially American management style of strong planning , coordination and control from the centre . |
| 30 | More , it was the result of the involvement of large multi-national concerns like the newspaper empire of the American-based Australian , Rupert Murdoch , which took over not only the downmarket Sun but also The Times . |