Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are also inconvenient , because frequent doses must be given to maintain a continuous effect . |
| 2 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |
| 3 | A moratorium on the use of high seas drift-nets from mid 1992 onwards , unless they could be shown to have a negligible effect on marine living resources ( diplomatic language for marine mammals and sea birds ) . |
| 4 | While railway workers in England and Wales would suffer the brunt of redundancies , any severe job losses would be bound to have a knock-on effect in Scotland . |
| 5 | Britain wants to encourage movement , not to stifle it , and any talk of sanctions would be bound to have a bad effect . |
| 6 | Consequently , unlike other tumour suppressor genes , only one allele need be mutated to produce a phenotypic effect . |