Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities .
2 It records the twofold effect of every business transaction .
3 Supporters of benchmarking usually stress the invigorating effects of looking outside for comparisons .
4 If a group of mated animals is required for a particular day it is possible to increase the probability of mating using the Whitten effect ( 5 ) .
5 We have found evidence suggesting the strong effect of parity and of parity relative to age on child mortality and on completed family size .
6 And given the brutalizing effect of the war itself and the undeniable impact of at least parts of the ideological message which had been hammered into Germans for years , by no means all of what was taking place and would lead Germany into the abyss was unwelcome or unpopular .
7 Given the horrific effects which are bound to be visited upon the countries of Eastern Europe in the event of a prolonged conflict , the Warsaw Pact 's non-Soviet members may be disinclined to resist he logic of Soviet strategy .
8 From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course .
9 A weak dancer playing Albrecht or James spoils the total effect .
10 Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch .
11 For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact .
12 To see the beneficial effect of Finsinger and Vogelsang 's constraint , consider the position of a manager coming in to control an industry in which price is substantially above marginal cost .
13 For the working-class child correct physical development could help eliminate the immoral effects of a dissolute culture or unhealthy environment , contributing to a gradual improvement of national physique .
14 It concerned the toxic effects of atmospheric lead and was characterised by a series of comments like ‘ It 's claimed that even low levels of lead can cause brain damage ’ , ‘ It 's been difficult to get conclusive evidence ’ , ‘ There 's a whole lot of evidence ’ , ‘ Yes but there is conflicting evidence ’ , all delivered without any one of the four speakers actually providing figures to explain what the concern and disagreement was all about .
15 Hence Oct-1 is likely to act by inhibiting the stimulatory effect of endogenous NFI on the HPV 16 motif , presumably by inhibiting NFI binding to its overlapping site .
16 In order to confirm the inhibitory effect of Oct-1 on the HPV 16 motif , we constructed an Oct-1 expression vector by cloning a human Oct-1 cDNA clone ( 23 ) under the control of the strong cytomegalovirus immediate-early promoter in the vector pJ7 ( 24 ) .
17 And it may be noted that Holman draws on psychological research to emphasise the adverse effects on children of separation from their parents , of the failure to develop relationships at all , and of disruptive family relationships .
18 I think there 's a possibility of overestimating the negative effect , because one sees newspapers and thinks , ‘ Oh , my God , they 're going to start shooting us at any minute . ’
19 Several plants grouped together will create their own humid micro-climate , though overcrowding may make the combined effect too much .
20 John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’
21 An attempt to estimate the cumulative effect of thematic map errors in digital overlay analysis has been made by Newcomer and Szajgin ( 1984 ) .
22 1.14 It is not yet clear how courts would treat the combined effects of , say , negligent driving and failing to wear a seat belt .
23 However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems .
24 We used Student 's t test to compare the basic data of age , volume of blood transfusion , haemoglobin , and length of hospital stay ; χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction and Fisher 's exact test when appropriate to compare the haemostatic effects among the two groups of patients .
25 It is thought that the right-handed molecule produced the therapeutic effect but the left-handed molecule produced the birth defects .
26 The company has also signed with special effects company Industrial Light & Magic Inc , which produced the award-winning effects in Death Becomes Her and the liquid Cyborg in Terminator 2 .
27 This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days .
28 Omari argues , convincingly , that the Government press of Dar es Salaam produced the opposite effect to that intended by its sponsors .
29 As soon as the delivery is made stocks shoot up again , until further usage reduces them , and this produces the saw-tooth effect on the graph .
30 Removing input neuron 1 produces difficulties with remembering output pattern A but not B. Removing input neuron 2 produces the reverse effect .
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