Example sentences of "result was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art was subordinated to a social theory , and the result was ‘ Socialist Realism ’ , the realistic portrayal of heroic workers and everyday life in a representational style . |
| 2 | The result was that the union became subordinated for some time to the hierarchy and a breakaway union of protestant teachers was formed . |
| 3 | The result was all she intended — glamorous , enticing , unusual . |
| 4 | The result was that the social pressure had no effect at all . |
| 5 | The end result was that Tooheys won the day , with most of the drinkers still under the limit after an hour 's soaking . |
| 6 | On the other had he constructed an entire model railway , ad again the result was most successful . |
| 7 | One result was that the British were the world 's major communications operators . |
| 8 | When he collaborated directly with her in opera the result was of historical significance . |
| 9 | The pre-tax result was unchanged at £11.3m , which included a £1.6m profit from the sale of a 14.9 per cent stake in Rush & Tompkins . |
| 10 | Beneath the bare result was the familiar curate 's egg pattern of some bits doing well and some less well . |
| 11 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 12 | The half year result was a 34 per cent rise over last time , and at the higher end of City estimates . |
| 13 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 14 | The result was a 2-1 win for England , who went on to take the silver medal , losing in an exciting final to Australia . |
| 15 | The result was enough , however , to give Australia the trophy . |
| 16 | The result was an emphatic seven-try victory over a courageous side who , over the past few months in their own colours and in their other incarnation as the Canadian national team , have overwhelmed Japan and the United States and been pipped by Wales and Ireland ( minus their Lions ) after surrendering leads late on . |
| 17 | The result was all the more remarkable as the champion has looked vulnerable in his last two contests . |
| 18 | In Hamlin 's opinion , the crucial thing about the result was that others would be grateful to Gloucester for knocking the champions down a peg or two . |
| 19 | The result was to put imported scotch at the top of the spirits price range , so that it was a valued gift , but was not bought to drink under normal circumstances . |
| 20 | Given Russia 's high latitudinal position , her short farming season , low productivity , absence of markets , and scant incentives for yield improvement in the late Tsarist period and until the advent of NEP , the natural result was a strong peasant urge to supplement agricultural income by promysly ( craft industries ) , one of which was the production and working up of flax for the kustarnyi industry . |
| 21 | The result was an alarming drop in resources — 3,684 public libraries in 1922 as opposed to 14,800 in 1920 ; 1,126 ‘ illiteracy liquidation points ’ as against 17,462 before NEP . |
| 22 | The result was a summit meeting between its leader , Dr Garrett FitzGerald , and Mrs Thatcher in November 1981 , with the objective of exploring the idea of a kind of inter-governmental council . |
| 23 | The eventual result was the breakaway from the NUM of a new union , the Union of Democratic Mineworkers , with a membership of close to 30,000 . |
| 24 | One major result was the confirmation of a long-term American commitment to maintain the British nuclear deterrent , including the use of Trident missiles . |
| 25 | The result was fourteen months of the hardest work that Michael Ramsey ever knew in his life . |
| 26 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 27 | The result was a single national airline that was to be the so-called ‘ chosen instrument ’ for British air services : British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) . |
| 28 | The initial result was that the Conservatives had sought to counter the collectivist strategy of progressivism with a collectivism of their own , while individualist arguments had been relegated to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 29 | Later she dug about in the fridge ; and although the result was depressing , she did find and consume two pots of yoghurt , a hunk of cheese and a slice of ham which had begun to curl up at its edges . |
| 30 | The inevitable result was over-capacity in the market place followed by a vicious price war . |