Example sentences of "[verb] to have a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Known as FotoMan , the technology is expected to have a similar impact on desktop publishing as the Polaroid camera had on photography when it was first launched . |
| 2 | The creation of a new party was also a more exciting enterprise which was expected to have a greater effect on public opinion : for the first twelve months — until the Falklands crisis arrived — the SDP gained much favourable publicity and appeared to be potentially successful . |
| 3 | The total collapse of the Martian market for marioc is expected to have a major effect on the economy of Uridia . ’ |
| 4 | A quota system adopted by Labour 's annual conference in 1990 is expected to have a strong impact on the gender ratios of this year 's office-bearers in the constituency Labour parties . |
| 5 | The Ford talks are expected to have a significant impact on pay talks throughout manufacturing industry in the next six months . |
| 6 | No oh well actually we do , me and Ros want to have a quiet drink on our own , you know ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Problems occur when sex , or any other addiction starts to have a negative effect on the rest of a person 's life . |
| 9 | The early dimetrodon , as we have seen , did appear to have a cooling device on its back , with the spines helping to increase the creature 's surface-to-mass ratio . |
| 10 | As Lowe 's international playing career was drawing to a close , another RAF pilot who was destined to have a considerable influence on the style and development of English rugby began his . |
| 11 | Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children . |
| 12 | The High Authority seemed to have a wide brief on fiscal matters such as taxes and levies , as well as upon production and restrictive practices . |
| 13 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 14 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 15 | She seemed to have a sensible head on her shoulders . |
| 16 | … for all those unfortunate and aged people the institution of the poor law did provide some genuine relief , especially in small communities where the poor were personally known and acknowledged to have a legitimate claim on the assistance of their neighbours . |
| 17 | I 'd like to have a good head on me . |
| 18 | This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | One has been shown to have a direct effect on killing cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed . |
| 21 | While most of us would acknowledge that some level of stress is required to enable us to function and to be sufficiently motivated , the effects of continued high levels of stress have been shown to have a damaging effect on the ability to maintain our personal sense of purpose , usefulness and well-being . |
| 22 | Originally thought to have a beneficial effect on flocks , Hecate was once the patroness of herdsmen . |
| 23 | These inadequacies of structure in turn were thought to have a bad effect on the efficient delivery of local government services , and on the ability of citizens to understand the role of local democracy . |
| 24 | I happen to have a great deal on my mind at the moment . |
| 25 | This becomes necessary when chain entanglements begin to have a significant effect on the relaxation times . |
| 26 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 27 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 28 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 29 | Today is going to have a greater significance on your life than you could ever imagine . |
| 30 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |