Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the result " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 2 | Bare patches at the hedge base are the result of excessive height , uncontrolled weed growth or a hedge profile which obstructs light from filtering down . |
| 3 | Will the Minister recognise that some of the benefits that he announced this afternoon are the result of cross-subsidy from the dirty , sleazy pornographic phone calls that he and his colleagues have encouraged for some time ? |
| 4 | We do not have ’ joyriding ’ in Northern Ireland ; rather death , destruction and tragedy are the result of young folk indulging in the habit of taking other people 's vehicles and running around in them for all sorts of purposes . |
| 5 | The findings suggest that , although there is an interacting effect between the two , many of the fundamental characteristics which are shared by all the cross-national systems investigated for that industry are the result of a common response to modern technological development and mechanised factory production . |
| 6 | This is because such bigotry and violence are the result not of being too religious , but of not being religious enough , of superficiality , of mistaken ideas about what religion is about . |
| 7 | Even if scientists could demonstrate such a correlation , it would still be difficult to be certain whether the effect were the result of social or genetic transmission . |
| 8 | The neurophysiological version of the CTP , with which we are concerned here , holds that perception is the result of the constant interaction between the material world and the nervous system . |
| 9 | All of these observations seem to fit with , and to give support to , the idea that perception is the result of the impact of the perceived objects on an appropriately tuned nervous system . |
| 10 | What is more , there is a great deal of empirical evidence ( amassed over many years ) suggesting that human perception is the result of a non-introspectible process of construction , a process that takes a measurable amount of time and that can be interfered with in specific ways . |
| 11 | A dynamic transformation of consciousness is the result . |
| 12 | However , the Left has ducked the problem of widespread fear of violence within the working class , arguing that violence is the result of deprivation — once the people are no longer deprived they 'll no longer be depraved . |
| 13 | When an employee 's relocation is the result of a promotion or when an employee receives an increase in salary at the new location , any disturbance allowance payable on the basis of a percentage of salary is usually calculated on the new salary . |
| 14 | Unseasonal weather can encourage a dramatic rise in pest numbers before their natural predators have multiplied in response , but very often an outbreak is the result of poor management , leaving plants susceptible to attack . |
| 15 | The extent of these costs is not yet clear , but if a more efficient and motivated workforce and reduction in staff turnover is the result , industry should see tangible benefits . |
| 16 | The simple fact is that most crime is the result of giving a criminal an easy opportunity . |
| 17 | Good ball action is the result of the ball making contact with the sand , so it is important to keep the fibre erect and the sand uniformly level . |
| 18 | that harm is the result of a lack of parental care or the child being beyond parental control . |
| 19 | And if modernism is the result of a stage of differentiation whose onset is proper to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , then modernity is the product of a much earlier stage of this differentiation process . |
| 20 | Her entry in the marathon is the result of a dare by one of the hospital 's doctors . |
| 21 | Earlier a detective had said : ‘ We believe the shooting was the result of a prank . |
| 22 | Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture . |
| 23 | That important stroke was the result of Olazabal and Stewart narrowly missing birdie putts on the 18th which would have resulted in a play-off . |
| 24 | They all assumed that Louis 's stroke was the result of his grief . |
| 25 | One of the most important recent examples of such a study was the result of joint work by an anthropologist and an economist , and focused on critical appraisal of many of the assumptions about goods current in economics ( Douglas and Isherwood 1980 ) . |
| 26 | As for the benign intent : whereas dashes for growth in the 1960s and early 1970s were engineered by governments that deliberately overestimated the economy 's ability to grow , last year 's boom was the result of a miscalculation , which probably erred on the right side . |
| 27 | Ramaciotti is not just one of Europe 's finest car designers ( the stunning Mythos concept car was the result of his boyhood dreams ) but he is also considered one of the best analysts of design in the business . |
| 28 | Observers noted that the export drive by Japanese industry was the result of slowing demand on Japan 's domestic markets , but they expected the situation to stabilize as the year progressed . |
| 29 | Mr Tristan Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , told a meeting of EC foreign ministers that the violence was the result of Serbian and Croatian regular and irregular troops staking out their positions in advance of recognition . |
| 30 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |