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

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1 Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect .
2 I have tried endless products which claim to remedy this , but nothing has any effect .
3 Finally , I use dampened white toilet tissue to get rid of any hard lines that may have occurred in my sky , and most importantly I try not to overwork or rework the sky once I am satisfied , just because I see another effect .
4 A State may be labelled a ‘ third party ’ to a unilateral act by another State which has juridical effect , although ‘ non-party ’ would seem a more appropriate term .
5 For instance , when coaching people in the carve gybe , rather than simply say ‘ Bend zee knees ’ which has little effect , it is better to ask them to try and get their knees to touch the water as they bank into the turn .
6 The only type of housing tenure which has any effect is council tenancy : being a council tenant reduces the probability of receiving an offer by about 41% in Models I and 2 , ceteris paribus .
7 We on this side of the House will continue to propose and to support policies which give practical effect to the hope for a new and durable world order of peace , liberty , and prosperity which was expressed again at the United Nations last week .
8 The changes , which took immediate effect , resulted from an inquiry launched on April 22 , following the disclosure that Sununu had made more than 70 trips on military aircraft since April 1989 .
9 The embargo , which took immediate effect , prohibited all US contracts with the manufacturer as well as the importation of any Armscor products .
10 Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect .
11 Compared to many other flowers which achieve greatest effect when planted en masse , the rose is essentially an individual beauty which has to be seen and smelled close to .
12 The sustainable yield from the fishery by these methods , which have little effect on other fish species , and no significant effect on dolphins , turtles , or sea birds , has been calculated as 45,000 tonnes per year — 35,000 tonnes of adult fish taken by longlines , and 10,000 juveniles , taken by trolling .
13 As we shall see , there are several processes , in addition to the sexual process of higher organisms , which have this effect .
14 But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects .
15 They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate .
16 Systemic hypotension may reduce coronary perfusion ; in the CONSENSUS II trial there was an increased incidence of first dose hypotension in the enalapril group ( 10.5% v 2.5% in placebo group ) and mortality was increased in patients who showed this effect .
17 Knowing the problems and the opportunities that your tools offer , you design maximum effect at minimum effort .
18 You get this effect when you gaze through a file of London trees in winter , and the naked branches criss and cross until only motes of light remain , in peeping triangles .
19 As the wind tries to tip the boat over , so you counter that effect by sitting out .
20 I would be very interested to hear from any readers who experience this effect , or who find even the presence of electricity disturbing .
21 " The popular vision of climate apocalypse is wrong " according to Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia , who suggests one effect of the trend , if it continues , could be longer growing seasons .
22 We excluded this effect as sole explanation for the very low mucosal concentrations after Claversal 250 mg tablets or azo-bound drugs by comparing rectosigmoidal concentrations in patients with and without lavage .
23 One reported systemic effect which is unusual in helminth infections is interference with the blood-clotting mechanism , so that subcutaneous haematomata may be present .
24 We attribute this effect to a combination of stronger CO binding to the surface and increased ionization of the potassium adatoms .
25 If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect .
26 I keep this all the ti got some you see I 'm trying to group the flowers together because I think they give more effect that way .
27 However , they had little effect on changing it .
28 This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them .
29 Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived .
30 However , they had little effect on the mainstream of Conservative thinking .
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