Example sentences of "it had [art] [adv] [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 Certainly it had a more significant effect on English politics than any purely political event in my lifetime .
2 But Dewey 's application of it had a very direct effect on educational practice in the classroom .
3 It sounds a trivial thing — this common pasture right for six months of the year — but it had the most devastating effect on town development , in the Midlands above all .
4 You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal .
5 Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes .
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