Example sentences of "result was an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result was an unusual ; tiled conservatory , totally in keeping with the style of the house . |
| 4 | The result was an immediate rise in temperature and pressure within the reactor . |
| 5 | More commonly powerful Romans had themselves portrayed with their bodies idealised in the Greek manner and their heads idealised in the Roman tradition — indeed , even Pompey never quite lost his homely Roman countenance The result was an aesthetic catastrophe , but the harshly jarring styles accurately conveyed the confusion of cultures in the early first century BC , a time when many well-to-do Romans completed their education in Athens , but when the moral values expressed in traditional Roman portraits were still considered an essential element in the representation of individuals . |
| 6 | The result was an unexpectedly heavy fine of £125 plus the expenses of the commission . |
| 7 | The result was an improvement over the unsupervised product , and yet we still felt that further urban differentiation might be possible . |
| 8 | The result was an uneasy compromise , in which for some meetings there would be a chairperson , in others not . |
| 9 | As the prayer was answered the result was an outward focus : the place was shaken , they began to speak the word of God boldly , and the great missionary activity of the church began . |
| 10 | The gruesome response from the Serb-dominated army was predictable — several hundred Croat fighters gathered in a village near Kupres , unaware that federal army tanks , hidden in corn stacks , had set a trap — the result was an appalling massacre . |
| 11 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 12 | The result was an injection of £250,000 , which gave 3i a 15% stake . |
| 13 | In practice , the sole result was an outbreak of fisticuffs between the UDA and UVF prisoners in Long Kesh prison . |
| 14 | After that , it was all willpower and the result was an extraordinary recovery . |
| 15 | This result was an embarrassment following the headlines of January , but there was no hesitation about publishing it . |
| 16 | During this time she travelled the French countryside , and the result was an exhibition in 1989 which sold out instantly . |
| 17 | The result was an excessive emphasis on anticlericalism . |
| 18 | The result was an informal , sometimes unrecognized , domination of the world by European culture and institutions . |
| 19 | The result was an unprecedented demand for second hand furniture , the price of which quickly rose to exorbitant levels on the black market . |
| 20 | This allowed an amalgamation of the Mowbray retinue with the royal interest in East Anglia and the result was an immensely influential grouping . |
| 21 | The result was an internal committee with an external chairman Lord Plowden . |
| 22 | The result was an exact compound of parts , no more , no less , and we had not the heart to continue the troublesome process for ourselves . |
| 23 | The result was an invitation to London and the offer of a job as assistant to the managing director , with the responsibility of overseeing a project to install amusement machines in the company 's pubs and restaurants . |
| 24 | The result was an overwhelming majority in favour of an independent Ukraine , even in predominantly Russian areas , such as Crimea and the east of the republic . |
| 25 | The main result was an agreement to establish joint peacemaking forces to intervene in CIS conflicts . |
| 26 | The result was an average loyalty-factor of just over 11 out of 20 . |
| 27 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 28 | The result was an exhibition that some praised as ‘ the most beautiful show at A Space ’ . |
| 29 | This allowed an amalgamation of the Mowbray retinue with the royal interest in East Anglia and the result was an immensely influential grouping . |
| 30 | The end result was an undignified collapse in the last few days ’ ( Marsh 1978 : 176 ) . |