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

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1 It records the twofold effect of every business transaction .
2 Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle .
3 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 ) .
4 We have found evidence suggesting the strong effect of parity and of parity relative to age on child mortality and on completed family size .
5 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 .
6 Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge .
7 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 .
8 A weak dancer playing Albrecht or James spoils the total effect .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ) .
14 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 . ’
15 Several plants grouped together will create their own humid micro-climate , though overcrowding may make the combined effect too much .
16 An attempt to estimate the cumulative effect of thematic map errors in digital overlay analysis has been made by Newcomer and Szajgin ( 1984 ) .
17 It is thought that the right-handed molecule produced the therapeutic effect but the left-handed molecule produced the birth defects .
18 On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect .
19 The Education Act of 1902 finally brought education under local authority control in England and Wales and abolished the school boards ; similar legislation produced the same effect in Scotland in 1918 .
20 This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days .
21 Omari argues , convincingly , that the Government press of Dar es Salaam produced the opposite effect to that intended by its sponsors .
22 Maximilian saw nothing and said , ‘ It would be interesting to observe whether one got the same effect by slowing up the , say , motion of a shoe on a banana skin . ’
23 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 .
24 Removing input neuron 1 produces difficulties with remembering output pattern A but not B. Removing input neuron 2 produces the reverse effect .
25 Unfortunately this produces the exact effect they are trying to prevent .
26 A quick reading of the above statements — and of their other similar statements — produces the desired effect : concern over the declining fortunes of the press , the reduction in ‘ public-affairs ’ — an élitist concern ? — coverage , and the intrusion of the human interest story in unbounded proportions .
27 But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic .
28 The limiting value of the second integral is , from equation ( 11.16 ) , which represents the combined effect of a continuous spectrum of sinewaves with the amplitude inversely proportional to frequency .
29 Each arrow linking two variables in a causal path diagram represents the direct effect of one variable upon the other , controlling all other relevant variables .
30 Chin-cloths were usually removed before the fitting of the headgear , the tapes of the latter producing the same effect .
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