Example sentences of "but [verb] a [adj] effect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience tends to improve performance but has a lessening effect as the age of acquisition increases . |
| 2 | The improved accuracy of the laser measurements reveals that along an isotopic chain the radius of the nuclear charge does not vary smoothly but shows a saw-tooth effect with a nucleus with odd mass number often lying below the straight line between the two adjacent nuclei with even mass number . |
| 3 | Investment in scientific research and development has fallen from 0.35% to 0.28% of GDP ( while in Germany it stands at 0.40% ) , not only affecting our higher education system but creating a knock-on effect throughout the British economy . |
| 4 | Vocalisation suppression impaired rhyming judgements , but had a reduced effect upon meaning judgements and visual-similarity judgements . |
| 5 | This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme . |
| 6 | Value properties , for me , are really there in the world quite apart from a valuer 's responses to it , but have a necessary effect on the will of him who knows of them . |