Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [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 .
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