Example sentences of "the result was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was the verse known as ‘ Mythopoeia ’ , some of which he quoted in his essay . |
| 2 | When the technical skills of the big-budge filmmakers were combined with the ideas of those working at a lower level , the result was the possibility of a thriving national cinema . |
| 3 | The result was the greatest phenomenon in the history of chess : three sisters , Zsuzsa , Zsofia and Judit Polgar , all of whom have achieved Grandmaster results in their teens . |
| 4 | The result was the compromise accepted yesterday . |
| 5 | But the result was the balance I argued for . |
| 6 | The result was the Commons debate became a debate on the Meacher proposals , not the Fowler ones . |
| 7 | The result was the appearance of a number of substantial steam-powered mills in the vicinity of the docks itself . |
| 8 | The result was the great British compromise ; Tawell would be charged with the lesser crime of possessing a forged bond rather than actually forging it . |
| 9 | Another approach was to graft fewer and fewer polarizing region cells and again the result was the same . |
| 10 | The result was the formation of the Lombard League , made up of sixteen cities united against the empire . |
| 11 | The result was the extraordinary situation at the end of March 1913 , when goals for equalled goals against at 56 . |
| 12 | The result was the same — the farmers lost their always precarious crops of maize , and the herdsmen saw their cattle die in their thousands . |
| 13 | But with the loss came a gain and the result was the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke . |
| 14 | The result was the transformation of a derelict Burton distribution warehouse on the outskirts of Newcastle into a modern centre dedicated to small design businesses . |
| 15 | The result was the Colonial Development and Welfare Act of 1940 and the subsequent erosion of the once sacrosanct idea that the colonies must be , if nothing else , self-supporting . |
| 16 | And so Leo applied his creative hand to the problem , and the result was the electric bass . |
| 17 | The result was the total criminalisation of male homosexuality and the trial of Oscar Wilde . |
| 18 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 19 | The result was the rationalisation of the industrial structure , which Professor G.C. Allen has summed up : ‘ The chief effect of government intervention between the wars was to defend the failures rather than to encourage the enterprising ’ . |
| 20 | Whichever formation Taylor deployed the result was the same — absolutely nothing ! |
| 21 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 22 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 23 | Bismarck pushed the Dual Monarchy towards Italy — he was momentarily upset by a burst of panslavism which made him worry about a Franco-Russian rapprochement — and the result was the Triple Alliance ( 20 May 1882 ) . |
| 24 | In the past these so-called middle-income countries ( many of them in Latin America ) relied too heavily on banks ; the result was the debt crisis of the 1980s . |
| 25 | The result was the uneasy compromise between deterrent and retributive aims that characterised neoclassicism . |
| 26 | The result was the treaty of Troyes of May 1420 . |
| 27 | Despite pressures for differentiation , the result was the very opposite of separation . |
| 28 | The result was the creation of large-scale public bureaucracies designed for the efficient regulation of water use . |
| 29 | The result was the hardest set of negotiations I have ever encountered , lasting some six months . |
| 30 | Yet however unjust , whoever was to blame , the result was the same : his father was a broken man . |