I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a direct result/consequence
▪ Many illnesses here are a direct consequence of bad diet.
a dramatic result
▪ Cameras on the streets have produced dramatic results in reducing crime.
a likely result/outcome
▪ the most likely outcome of the election
a positive result/outcome
▪ We hope there will be a positive outcome to the talks.
a test result/score
▪ The test results are out on Friday.
collate information/results/data/figures
▪ A computer system is used to collate information from across Britain.
comparable figures/data/results
▪ comparable figures for the same period of time last year
concrete results
▪ The negotiations failed to achieve any concrete results.
conflicting results
▪ Scientific tests have produced conflicting results.
create/cause/result in inequality
▪ Certain economic systems inevitably result in inequality.
decisive victory/result/defeat etc
devastating consequences/results
▪ a terrible disease with devastating results
disastrous effects/consequences/results
▪ Climate change could have disastrous effects on Earth.
end in/result in failure
▪ A series of rescue attempts ended in failure.
end result
▪ If tasks are too challenging, the end result is that learners are discouraged.
evidence/results/data/studies etc suggest(s) that
▪ The evidence suggests that single fathers are more likely to work than single mothers.
exam results
▪ The school achieves consistently good exam results.
examination results
▪ You will receive your examination results in the post.
experimental evidence/results/data
▪ A hypothesis is tested by finding experimental evidence for it.
final result/outcome
▪ I do not know what the final outcome will be.
freak result
▪ a freak result
indirect result
▪ Losing weight is an indirect result of smoking cigarettes.
inevitable consequence/result
▪ Disease was an inevitable consequence of poor living conditions.
lead to/result in a shortage
▪ The strike led to serious shortages of fuel in some areas.
lead to/result in confusion
▪ The differing instructions led to confusion.
lead to/result in death
▪ Any delay in calling an ambulance may have resulted in her death.
lead to/result in erosion
▪ Poor farming practices have led to erosion of the soil.
long-lasting effect/result
poll results/findings
▪ The poll results are very encouraging.
probable outcome/consequence/result
▪ The probable result of global warming will be a rise in sea levels.
producing...results
▪ New drugs are producing remarkable results.
test results
▪ The test results showed that she had meningitis.
the election results
▪ The election results have been coming in all night.
the result of a competition
▪ The result of the competition will be announced on April 3rd.
the results of a survey
▪ The results of the survey have not yet been analysed.
the results/findings of a study
▪ The results of this study suggest that the drug is effective in over 80% of cases.
▪ His research confirmed the findings of earlier studies.
yield...results
▪ Our research has only recently begun to yield important results.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
▪ The rise of corporate power is a direct result of governments' actively adopting neoliberal economic policies.
▪ This is a direct result of the people in it and the people leading it.
▪ The differences are the direct result of evolution.
▪ What they often fail to see is that cults are a direct result of blocked politics.
▪ Some young people have died as a direct or indirect result of sniffing glue or other solvents.
▪ Possibly as a direct result of the recession, there appears to be an increase in the reissue of major classics.
▪ The extension of the disclosure obligation to arrangements was imposed as a direct result of criticisms following the Guinness affair.
final
▪ The final result of electoral votes was: Clinton 370, Bush 168, Perot 0.
▪ Exit polling indicated the final results would reflect this spread.
▪ The only major problem at this year's final results from the traditional fine weather in southern California.
▪ For Democrats, the final result this year was easily achieved.
▪ The final results will depend on the texture of your hair.
▪ The final result is a permanently damaged knee joint.
▪ But the final results placed him second and suggested that the Buchanan insurgency was ebbing.
▪ Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief, the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear.
good
▪ Even a plain, cheapo warm white tube will give better results.
▪ But, like an athlete, you must practice these exercises deliberately and consistently for the best results.
▪ It is necessary to follow the routines exactly to obtain the best results.
▪ Interactive marketing could help cut such expenses and may even deliver better results.
▪ The best results were for the Ford Motor and the Dana corporations which predicted 45 percent of the total variance of returns.
▪ The younger the wrinkles, the better the result.
▪ Our relatively good results for reduced smoking in men suggest this may be an important conclusion.
▪ For best results, thin the blooms when plants are covered with flowers.
inevitable
▪ Therefore a draw becomes the inevitable result.
▪ The inevitable result is that innocent people die at the hands of the state.
▪ Magona has a surer touch when narrating the sweep of history that builds up to create inevitable results.
▪ I interpret as the inevitable result of conflict between art and female obligation in upper-class, old-family Boston.
▪ These are the inevitable results of leaving the merit of a book to be determined exclusively by market value.
▪ The almost inevitable result: Housing prices will drop, hurting homeowners.
▪ With grain prices kept at an artificially high price thereafter, the further impoverishment of those already poor was the inevitable result.
▪ Violence becomes, as a result, an appealing and even an inevitable result.
negative
▪ Comparison with and without adjustment for smoking gave similarly negative results.
▪ So no real number, positive or negative, squares to produce a negative result.
▪ Gram staining and culture gave negative results.
▪ The investigation, he concluded without surprise, yielded negative results.
▪ The phrase caught in his mind. Negative results.
▪ However, it allows only about one third of patients to be diagnosed and therefore a negative result has little value.
▪ Even failures to replicate are not very interesting to the journals; experiments with negative results therefore rarely get reported.
▪ The boy was screened for inborn errors, with negative results.
net
▪ The net result is that the lack of that information results in the application being delayed for many months.
▪ The net result would probably be active combat that could end in a draw.
▪ The net results of all this?
▪ The net result of war making by way of symbols is to widen the actual gap between luxury and poverty.
▪ The net result, say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.
▪ The net result of this change is that return on sales will increase to 11. 9 percent.
▪ The net result is a profit equal to the option premium.
▪ Yet the net result of his pages of lists is to create a curious abundance-effect.
positive
▪ Few approaches would produce more positive results on the actual curriculum in schools than review and retraining in this field.
▪ Experts in the United States later said that positive results on such tests could result from other sources.
▪ Get advice from your clinic about early intervention treatment options and support for people who have positive results.
▪ All people with positive results will talk to counselors, Noble said.
▪ It may not produce a positive result.
▪ There are, however, a number of positive results to be drawn from his departure.
▪ The charity has seen positive results from health care and farming projects.
similar
▪ Both approaches appear to achieve similar results.
▪ A succession of other polls have shown similar results.
▪ Rowntree's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth.
▪ Similar causes tend to produce similar results.
▪ Changing attitude and power a certain amount will, on average, produce a somewhat similar result.
▪ These men often have similar backgrounds and philosophies of life which lead to similar results and successes.
▪ The experiments were repeated many times with similar results which were highly significant statistically.
▪ A Boston Globe poll released Sunday had similar results: Dole was the frontrunner with 33 percent.
■ NOUN
end
▪ The end result is a music in which rhythm and pattern dominate.
▪ Innovation and experimentation can be honored only if the end result is awe-inspiring.
▪ The end result will be that Londoners and London local authorities will pay millions more each year.
▪ If done correctly, however, the end result is still a delicious loaf of bread, as good as if hand-kneaded.
▪ And the end result is really rather good.
▪ Should you model the entire structure as closely as possible, or model only the end results or capacities?
▪ As wage rates rise, if the substitution effect dominates, the end result is falling consumption of time-intensive commodities.
▪ No matter how he strutted and screamed, the end result was more like watching performance art than hearing a concert.
test
▪ Primary national science test results have improved steadily, with 78 per cent of pupils reaching the required standard last summer.
▪ The test results were in and only his urine got a passing grade.
▪ The disclosure about their son's positive test result was made at 2 to 3 weeks.
▪ Tests generate more tests, and test results often lead to unwanted and unnecessary treatments.
▪ The intestinal permeability test result was even less reliably related to the gliadin intake than the antigliadin antibody test.
▪ Field test results were obtained from 102 sites in 35 states.
▪ Health officials alleged that he had fabricated test results and lied about the dosages of a Debendox ingredient in tests on rabbits.
▪ But as a group, ill veterans could be distinguished from healthy ones by overall test results.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ The subsequent establishment of a one-party state would have achieved the same result.
▪ Failure in government is not failure to achieve results, it is failure to secure reelection.
▪ And his network will tell him about the consultant who's got to the top by achieving top-class results.
▪ When was the last time government intervention achieved this type of results?
▪ To achieve consistently good results with any staining procedure requires a considerable degree of skill.
▪ Like the cabalistic use of hints and allusions, it achieves results seemingly out of proportion to the measures employed.
▪ However, it was not easy to use and required a certain amount of both skill and effort to achieve decent results.
▪ If McAfee can achieve results like this.
obtain
▪ Of course, more work is required to obtain smoother results, and this is an important consideration when doing calculations by hand.
▪ Business units will then have wide discretion concerning how they structure themselves and operate to obtain the desired results.
▪ Reliability refers to the ability to obtain the same results with repeated measures.
▪ For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient.
▪ It is necessary to follow the routines exactly to obtain the best results.
▪ Order and tell are like get but simply evoke more specific means of obtaining a result.
▪ A Scandinavian study uses a randomisation scheme which will probably prevent the group from obtaining a scientifically valuable result.
produce
▪ Conduct on other planes of behaviour may equally produce the same result.
▪ Strangely enough, there is a general formula that does produce results.
▪ Changing attitude and power a certain amount will, on average, produce a somewhat similar result.
▪ Figure 9. 3 illustrates the distributions of world endowments that produce the result.
▪ Clean-up contracts will be more stringently managed and terminated if they fail to produce results.
▪ This may sound unduly harsh, but most attempts at clarifying organizational values produce numbingly similar results.
▪ They are easy to use and often appear to produce quite good results.
▪ Sometimes, by contrast, in not providing the answers, you produce the same dispiriting result.
report
▪ A researcher reports a particular result, and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs.
▪ Symantec will report its results July 25.
▪ Previous studies of the effect of smoking on gall bladder disease have reported conflicting results.
▪ More details on the special charge and layoffs are expected April 30 when McKesson reports its quarterly results.
▪ Many people report good results from this, in terms of feeling fitter and happier.
▪ Viacom is expected to report its financial results next month.
▪ In this study, we report the long term results of dilatation in these patients.
▪ Zaring Homes said it expects to report earnings results for the fourth quarter and year sometime in mid-February.
show
▪ Investigations in man have shown controversial results.
▪ The panel recommended 12 months of therapy, rather than the previous standard six months because studies have shown better long-term results.
▪ In the same study a small group of six carcinomas of the stomach showed comparable results.
▪ A third round of injections showed similar results.
▪ Two of the displays also show the results of paying too little attention to human factors!
▪ Our figures show widespread differences of results between schools in the area.
▪ It recently showed poor results on two internal safety audits.
yield
▪ This hypothesis has yielded contradictory results.
▪ This technique has yielded widely inconsistent results, however, and is now rarely performed.
▪ The investigation, he concluded without surprise, yielded negative results.
▪ In contemporary matters, Shoumatoff yields better results.
▪ It is also far more likely than a reactive search to yield positive results.
▪ Obviously, the eyes are colored by some simple rule that yields the results you have seen.
▪ Studies of homoeopathic remedies in relation to prostaglandin metabolism may therefore yield interesting and fruitful results.
▪ This method does not always yield a unique result.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
net result/effect
▪ The net result of global warming will be a rise in sea levels.
▪ The new system is designed to spread payments over several months but the net effect is that people pay more in total.
▪ But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance.
▪ The net effect is to paralyze the organization in the present.
▪ The net effect of superimposing habituation on imprinting would be to displace the preference away from the familiar.
▪ The net result is clear: the wire will be pulled toward Mars and will stay taut under this combination of forces.
▪ The net result of this mechanism is increased sodium in the extracellular fluid.
▪ The net result, say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.
▪ We found that neither in theory nor in practice need the net effect be one of disincentive.
▪ Yet the net result of his pages of lists is to create a curious abundance-effect.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ D'you know the result of the Arsenal game?
▪ Election results are not expected to be announced until Friday.
▪ Her constant cough is the result of many years of smoking.
▪ Her parents believe that her death was a direct result of medical error.
▪ I've tried three different ways of adding these figures and each time I get a different result.
▪ It was a really exciting game, and the result was 2-1 to West Germany.
▪ Jobs are hard to get and, as a result, more young people are continuing their education.
▪ More and more people are using cars, with the result that towns are much more polluted.
▪ The results of our accountant's calculations show that we are on the verge of bankruptcy.
▪ The results of the attack included two helicopters burnt out, and three groundcrew wounded.
▪ The results of the study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
▪ These are excellent results for the Christian Democratic Party.
▪ Turn to BBC1 for the latest football results.
▪ We have completed our experiments and we are now analyzing the results.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, it decided to review the case on its own motion.
▪ He hit that shot poorly, and it found the water, but the result was irrelevant.
▪ Its huge majority was the result of Labour / Lib Dem tactical voting against Tories.
▪ Pleased with the results, Buckingham then asked his former bandmate who he should get to play bass on the album.
▪ Surveying the results of her handiwork, she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank.
▪ The results suggest that fertility rates are a function not so much of religion as of education and employment.
▪ This criticism can not be applied to the results for 1984-90.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books.
▪ The absorption of 5-ASA by the colon is poor, resulting in very low serum and urine concentrations and high faecal concentrations.
▪ This question resulted in almost one-third saying that they themselves might break the law.
▪ Every evening the make-up would be wiped off with a towel resulting in quite a large laundry bill for each Girl.
▪ A thinly-veiled threat of an academic Government inspectorate resulted in more open, external audit of performance in teaching and research.
▪ Heavy falls of snow will result in more cold water.
▪ It followed that further improvements would result in even higher earnings.
▪ However, the various limitations of both models results in there being few clear conclusions from the research.
■ NOUN
change
▪ In fact, innumerable changes will result affecting agricultural, housing, medical, clothing and amusement policies.
▪ A two-thirds vote would only be required if changes result in a net increase in taxes.
▪ The resulting estimates will then be used to calculate the changes in welfare resulting from some simple price reduction scenarios of 1992.
▪ These changes may result in somewhat greater reductions in employee numbers than we had previously envisaged, in addition to any transfer out of teams.
▪ Again the assumption is that no genuine change will result if the confidence of practitioners is totally undermined. 12.
▪ Induced trade deficits caused by such structural change may not result in an appropriate exchange rate adjustment.
▪ Group Services has had to reflect these changes resulting in a cutback on staff numbers with the loss of many valued colleagues.
death
▪ The trouble is that when they are they result in deaths.
▪ Using either product can result in injury and death.
▪ Rosie Johnston was at the centre of the scandal which resulted in Olivia's death six years ago.
▪ The disorders continued for seven days, resulting in the death of fifteen whites and twenty-three blacks.
▪ In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.
▪ Since 1981, there have been 665 crashes at state crossings, resulting in 81 deaths and 205 injuries.
▪ A major blood condition which resulted in early death.
▪ All have returned to normal without permanent damage, although hyponatremia occurring during surgery has resulted in death or permanent brain damage.
failure
▪ But this very failure has resulted in the survival of an unusual amount of information about the opera season.
▪ If the corporate world is wrong, some spectacular failures could result.
▪ Those failures resulted in the deaths of three men...
▪ Such a failure could well result in L Detachment simply being wound up.
increase
▪ This was to result in an overall increase of fifty beds.
▪ With those operations closing, it is not expected to result in a net increase in permanent jobs.
▪ Officials have said the bonds will be retired with surplus water system funds and will result in no tax increase.
▪ This results in an increase of glycogen in all organs and abnormally large lysosomes.
▪ But both seem extremely problematic and poorly thought out, and if implemented might just result in an increase in infections.
▪ So far, Hanley said, sliding supplies have not resulted in significant price increases.
▪ The resulting increase in the deficit would reduce net national savings.
injury
▪ When fighting does occur - as when two evenly matched individuals meet - it seldom results in injury.
▪ The court pointed out that even a game of hopscotch could suddenly break into a fight resulting in serious injury.
▪ In a proportion of cases it results from massive injuries to the chest and vital organs.
▪ Using either product can result in injury and death.
▪ Cars in the latter colours had 133 crashes resulting in injury per 10,000 cars in 1991.
▪ He certainly did not envy him his domestic problems or his resulting injuries to soul and face.
▪ Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries.
▪ The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests.
loss
▪ There will then be 3n control areas per cylinder on the 3350 and no loss of performance will result from the transfer.
▪ The loss of consciousness results from the epileptic process involving hippocampal regions of the medial temporal lobes.
▪ Will operator charges by Railtrack be reflected in higher fares and possible loss of patronage resulting from cross price elasticity?
▪ The losses initially will result from heavy expenditures to start up operations in the region, he said.
▪ This more than made up for the Tramway Department's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service!
▪ Needless loss of life resulted from a policy that emphasized backing away from provocation and discouraging self-defense.
▪ The compensatory award is intended to reimburse you for financial loss resulting from the unfair dismissal.
▪ Instead, rates fell and large losses resulted, Mr Goldinger told customers.
reduction
▪ This can result due to reductions in overmanning and improvements in other types of slack management procedures.
▪ This resulted in a marked reduction in the construction of dwellings in the public sector.
▪ These changes may result in somewhat greater reductions in employee numbers than we had previously envisaged, in addition to any transfer out of teams.
▪ As expected, shadowing did result in a significant reduction in right field advantage for the verbal task.
▪ My amendment would result in a reduction in the burden on these people to the tune of 50 percent.
▪ But both suffered from the blurring of detail which resulted from the reduction in size that their drawings underwent in printed form.
▪ Helen's frustration with people who don't appreciate her could result in a marked reduction in her tolerance level.
▪ The current recommended diabetic dietary regimen appears to result in a reduction in lipid cardiovascular risk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Imagine the mosaic of development that might have resulted to serve the visitors and draw even more.
▪ In the past year there have been at least eight deaths in custody which are believed to have resulted from torture.
▪ Many of these were accepted during compromise negotiations, resulting in tighter regulations than originally proposed.
▪ Mr Lamont said a freeze in bills last year would have resulted in substantial increases for many businesses this year.
▪ Polgar resolved to do the same, although for years it resulted in severe poverty.
▪ The 1980 election results devastated feminists and progressives across the nation.