Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a result [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 2 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 3 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 4 | Exemptions likely to be encountered include vehicles not exceeding 10 cwt unladen specially adapted for invalids ; vehicles brought from abroad for a temporary stay are exempt not exceeding one year from date of importation ; vehicles going to or returning from a vehicle test or being repaired etc. as a result of the test , provided in all cases prior arrangements have been made . |
| 5 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 6 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 7 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 8 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 9 | It is earning an inferior return to that currently being earned elsewhere as a result of the rise in interest rates . |
| 10 | During the past two or three years more wives had gone out to work usually as a result of increased economic Pressures on the farm . |
| 11 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |
| 12 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 13 | The ash swelled slightly as a result of the wetting and set hard round the corpses , making perfect natural moulds of them , and in some cases preserving even the imprint of clothing and the details of facial expressions . |
| 14 | Is there anything that you think needs to be changed , something that you 've picked up as a result of your study you , you feel ought to be changed in the school system ? |
| 15 | This situation changed radically as a result of the ‘ merger boom ’ of the period 1957–69 , which saw the national brewers ' share of net output rise from 18 per cent to 64 per cent . |
| 16 | A group of Irrawaddy dolphins , which appeared for the first time in Laos last year , are in danger of dying out as a result of the increasing use of gill nets by local fishermen . |
| 17 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 18 | Over the subsequent period , however , the falling share was substantially more than would be expected simply as a result of peace-time adjustments — probably to the extent of between 20 and 30 per cent [ Fetherston et al. , 1977 ] . |
| 19 | Interestingly , however , the fact that the British constitution is in part what the constitutional authorities say it is means that an insidious kind of constitutional change is already occurring simply as a result of authoritative attacks on the sovereignty of Parliament as a " dogma " and a " myth " that needs to be challenged . |
| 20 | How could a discrepancy between the actual and the natural unemployment rates be made to persist simply as a result of the actions of the monetary and fiscal authorities ? |
| 21 | This crisis had come about as a result of the Emperor 's determination to carry through a series of far-reaching reforms which had actually been begun in a tentative fashion some years previously . |
| 22 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 23 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 24 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 25 | This significant development in state intervention in the economy seems to have come about as a result of a mixture of growing humanitarian concern and embryonic working-class pressure . |
| 26 | This has come about as a result of , well no . |
| 27 | The name change has come about as a result of LASMO plc 's reduction in its interest in the Canadian company . |
| 28 | This interest in VDUs has come about as a result of an EC Directive relating to DSE , and UK legislation introduced on 1 January this year . |
| 29 | It is of great credit to the Committee that it describes the situation so clearly and that it points out many of the problems that have come about as a result of Government policy towards private residential care over the past few years . |
| 30 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |