Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those new French windows are favoured by Sir John Soane , the Regency architect , because they provide a cheerful effect , although he also complains that windows generally have become preposterously large . |
| 2 | Longer floats can look very loopy in a medium yarn , which is fine if you want a loopy effect , but the more conventional approach is to limit loopiness ! |
| 3 | Marslen-Wilson and Welsh ( 1978 ) found a significant effect of contextual constraint on the rate of fluent restorations of excised phonemes . |
| 4 | Studies were therefore required to exclude a major effect of pH on measurements of amylase . |
| 5 | Here , the apparent width of black and white lines had to be carefully adjusted in order to provide a convincing effect . |
| 6 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 7 | Although Poulantzas does not give a direct answer to the question ‘ How are we to know a pertinent effect when we encounter one ? ’ , he does discuss an historical example which may throw light on the matter . |
| 8 | But no well sometimes it has a reverse effect on people . |
| 9 | The lure of a weekly wage-packet has a mesmerizing effect . |
| 10 | The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes . |
| 11 | In chalk grassland in Britain , for example , the removal of grazers , such as rabbits or sheep , has a devastating effect on the fine-leaved bouncy turf rich in species . |
| 12 | Or you could always take it off the hook , which has a similar effect . |
| 13 | One side has a similar effect to deep black crushed velvet but with a slight sheen , the reverse has a rough pile effect painted in a choice of brown , blue or grey . |
| 14 | Shift+direction key(s) has a similar effect . ) |
| 15 | This has a similar effect and you will begin to grow drowsy and relaxed as the hypnotherapist speaks to you . |
| 16 | Let's hope this new move has a similar effect . |
| 17 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 18 | Removing neuron X2 has a similar effect on response to training pattern F'3 . |
| 19 | Fe 2 + is the commonest quencher ion , but Ni 2 + has a similar effect . |
| 20 | It is known that phosphorylation of the c-Jun A1 activation domain increases transcriptional activity of the protein ( 13 , 14 ) ; perhaps phosphorylation of Ser-249 has a similar effect on the A2 domain ( amino acid residues 238-257 ; ref. 29 ) . |
| 21 | They are good for inflammation of the bowel , breathing difficulties , heart problems , high blood pressure , reducing mucus and it also has a calming effect on the body , especially during nausea . |
| 22 | This has a threefold effect ; it is to fight a spiritual battle and to proclaim the authority of Jesus in a new area . |
| 23 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 24 | Wealth to those who deem it important has a destructive effect on happiness because thinking about money is demoralising . |
| 25 | In addition to spray drift , intensive farming has a destructive effect on the surrounding fauna and flora . |
| 26 | During the process of learning the student is working to achieve something ; knowledge of how close her performance is approximating to the desired goal not only has a motivating effect , but if given in sufficient detail provides information which enables her to adjust her learning nearer to the goal . |
| 27 | ( en ii ) the possibility of removing the 16+ as a series of examinations to be taken after a one/two year course for 14–16 year olds at the age of sixteen would remove a constraint which has a distorting effect on the pattern of the curriculum of schools . |
| 28 | However , cold tea , and emptying the teapot around the plants has a tremendous effect ; my camellia has glossy new leaves and two new flowers , and a tiny pieris is also pushing its red bracts through . |
| 29 | This has a singular effect in travelling through the country : the eye seems ever on the verge of a forest which is as it were by enchantment continually changing into inclosures and hedgerows . |
| 30 | A new form of treatment , or a new and more enthusiastic doctor , may act as a morale-booster which has a beneficial effect on the immune system — the sort of effect that the psychoneuroimmunologists are currently studying . |