Example sentences of "result was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half year result was a 34 per cent rise over last time , and at the higher end of City estimates . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result was a 2-1 win for England , who went on to take the silver medal , losing in an exciting final to Australia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The result was a stunning , white lace dress — an impressive feat made all the more amazing by the fact that Sherine was only eight years old ! |
| 9 | The result was a beautifully rich , uniform colour . |
| 10 | The end result was a sensational bob with a really Sixties feel to it . |
| 11 | The result was a home market swamped with onions , and a halving of prices . |
| 12 | The result was a kind of competition with each trying to outdo the other . ’ |
| 13 | The result was a sharp rise in mortgage lending by banks , competition which scared the building societies into relaxing their traditional rules of thumb . |
| 14 | The result was a $600,000 plan , announced on December 21st , to reduce the number of fatal shootings by a combination of extra training , electric stun-guns , rubber bullets and police dogs . |
| 15 | The first result was a dream that very night . |
| 16 | The result was a record based on events rather than on reason : things people said or did on particular historical occasions and in particular circumstances . |
| 17 | The result was a fusion of Czechs and Slovaks with neither having much time for the other . |
| 18 | The result was a kind of minimum wage financed by the ratepayer . |
| 19 | That contentious lesbian lesson may have been a well-meant attempt to broaden minds , but I 'd like to bet that the main result was a room full of scarlet faces . |
| 20 | THE general election result was a defeat for the BBC , the higher thinkers , the opinion polls — and the Liberal Democrats who once again have been exposed as a hollow shell . |
| 21 | The result was a bitter blow for Slough who take part in the European Clubs Championship next weekend , and their coach , Ian Jennings , admitted that the team would have to sort out several elements in the defence this week . |
| 22 | The result was a sweaty medley , harsh and brittle on the surface , but cheesy and rotten underneath . |
| 23 | The result was a classic fuel-oxidant explosive . |
| 24 | The result was a three-year project conducted by Lynn McGregor , Maggie Tate and Ken Robinson which culminated in a major publication ( 1977 ) and an excellent film of dynamic teaching ( Take Three ) . |
| 25 | There was no response , and the only result was a paragraph in the Edinburgh Evening News : |
| 26 | The new regime submitted itself to a plebiscite on 28 December and the result was a resounding success for the Prince president . |
| 27 | The result was a period of internal instability which did nothing to facilitate the attempts which were being made to strengthen France 's external position by a policy of military reform and rearmament . |
| 28 | The result was a resounding victory for the regime and for its new Constitution . |
| 29 | The result was a desolation of the environment and the spirit ; identikit Gulag estates , ravaged and abandoned inner cities , stifling individuality , deadening the imagination and provoking in the young an instinctive if unarticulated rage against their surroundings . |
| 30 | Shortly after birth , the mouse was fed water containing traces of metal , so activating the injected construct ; the result was a mouse almost twice the size of a normal mouse , and was affectionately labelled ‘ Supermouse ’ . |