Example sentences of "effect [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , had the effect of dramatically expanding the market for polythene . |
| 2 | It would have the effect of largely preoccupying the Warden 's forces , unfortunately . |
| 3 | However , it is a distinction we are going to maintain in this chapter because it has the effect of separately identifying the discount market . |
| 4 | This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core . |
| 5 | Moreover , if it is applied at the instant before the actual strike goes in , the loud , shrill sound has the effect of momentarily stunning an opponent , and in that brief fraction of a second a whole range of techniques can be directed towards a target . |
| 6 | A somewhat different system simulated the effect of momentarily jamming an iron bar across the terminals in the substation . |
| 7 | Sir Henry Norris was an archetype of the old-style football club chairman , combining a slight knowledge of the game with a great deal of money to put into it , and he fitted the popular image with a walrus moustache that quivered when he was angry , and a pince-nez that had the disconcerting effect of partially obscuring the direction of his gaze . |
| 8 | The body rests upon a bed of the finest ash , a coating of india rubber , three quarters of an inch in thickness , being placed between , which has the effect of almost destroying the vibration generally attendant on the railway carriages . |
| 9 | This had the effect of significantly lowering the melting point of the niello , allowing it to be melted into finely engraved designs . |
| 10 | It also had the effect of materially abridging the business of loan societies , most whose loans did not exceed £20 . |
| 11 | This well produced if flawed book has the effect of quickly vexing the reader , failing , as it does , to answer satisfactorily any of the main questions that it originally sought to address . |
| 12 | The remodelling of commissions of the peace , and the careful disposal of government offices , had the effect of greatly increasing the ability of the government-backed party to bring pressure to bear on electors to vote in their favour , whilst the mere fact that the Crown was making a clear statement as to where its own political sympathies lay was often by itself a powerful factor in swaying public opinion . |
| 13 | This has the effect of greatly increasing the strength of the withdrawal reflex in response to subsequence stimulation of the siphon alone . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs , which seem to be reported with increasing frequency these days , it may well turn out that such therapies have the less obvious effect of further imbalancing the body 's mechanisms , so adding to the burden of chronic ill-health . |
| 15 | The revisions had the effect of substantially strengthening the protocol . |