Example sentences of "but it [verb] [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had a dramatic effect on the entertainment giant 's stock . |
| 2 | But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time . |
| 3 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 4 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 5 | He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect . |
| 6 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 7 | When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation . |
| 8 | But it has a strange effect on the tutor . |
| 9 | You have to kick out the yaw damper and put in some twinky footwork on the rudders , but it has a salutary effect . |
| 10 | one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’ |