Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] the result " in BNC.
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| 1 | What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness . |
| 2 | Any features of a social situation which we pick out and identify as the terms of a contradiction may already be the result of a collection of further factors , some more important than others . |
| 3 | Can we discern contemporary patterns of shared accommodation between kin which might also be the result of such pressures ? |
| 4 | That might well be the result at the end of the day when all issues are properly balanced . |
| 5 | The most likely explanation is that these constipated patients are a heterogeneous group including patients without autonomic nervous system dysfunction , whose loss of peristaltic activity might instead be the result of intrinsic nerve damage or other motility disorder . |
| 6 | The remaining highlands bear fewer craters and this could largely be the result of partial burial by ejecta from basin-forming impacts , because these regions border such basins or the subsequent maria . |
| 7 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
| 8 | However , he failed to point out that the same trends could equally be the result of a large variety of other factors . |
| 9 | These could sometimes be the result of pronunciation . |
| 10 | This difference is primarily an effect of the composition of the lava , but to a certain extent it may also be the result of the high proportion of phenocrysts present in the lava . |
| 11 | Part of that is due no doubt to ongoing poor relations with the United States , but part may also be the result of a collapse of cultural life in Cuba today , particularly in the visual arts . |
| 12 | Both these factors may apply , but the sequence of learning may also be the result of choices for whatever reason , which those formulating and operating the curriculum may recommend in the light of teaching experience . |
| 13 | Mustill LJ said in Parmenter that , although the two offences are seen as different by defendants and lawyers , the mens rea is the same : If the Cunningham subjective test combined with the low level of intent prescribed by Mowatt is applied to s.47 in the same way as s.20 , the moral overtones of the two offences become indistinguishable , and the differences between the two depend upon variations between the levels of physical injury which may often be the result of chance . |
| 14 | If casual consumption of cocaine is down , it may well be the result of education and treatment programmes rather than criminal enforcement . |
| 15 | They also acknowledge the possibility that high education levels may well be the result of economic affluence but they still feel that a certain minimum level of education is a necessary prerequisite to the take-off stage of industrialisation . |
| 16 | This particular category deserves closer attention , because the level of spontaneous internal development , independent of any main road(s) , may well be the result of a native tradition flourishing in the Roman period . |
| 17 | It may simply be the result of little domestic refuse being left around the farm ; cereals may not have been processed there , or , if they were , not in a place likely to have resulted in their being burnt and therefore preserved . |
| 18 | Apart from this quibble , I do find that the whole performance has a slightly veiled and subdued quality about it , which may in part be attributable to microphone placement and the dull acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall , but may equally be the result of both orchestra and conductor being reluctant to take risks on such an auspicious occasion . |
| 19 | This may sometimes be the result of lack of information and reluctance on the part of the carers to take measures to correct this . |
| 20 | It will try to leave as much of the restriction as is reasonable in force , but that will only be the result if what remains after deletion of the void provisions can stand alone as a coherent , meaningful agreement : all too often the several restraints are jumbled and effectively unseverable , so that the whole fails . |
| 21 | The effect on bile secretion seen after intracerebroventricular injection of neuropeptide Y in these studies may therefore be the result of neuropeptide Y binding to receptors that are responsible for releasing cephalic phase secretion . |
| 22 | During the lexicographic stage this can only be the result of the creation of a new entry . |
| 23 | It states that , apart from stochastic disturbances emanating from u , , deviations of output from its full employment , natural value can only be the result of errors in predicting the price level . |
| 24 | Increased confidence can also be the result of using time when unemployed to acquire new skills . |
| 25 | While such a state most frequently results from the frustration of a person 's expressed desire for some material object , especially food or tobacco , Dentan ( 1968 ) notes that it can also be the result of forcing someone to do something against his or her will . |