Example sentences of "[pron] affect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I affected more fear than I felt . |
| 2 | Judging by site alone , 83 per cent could be due to venous disorders , and 10 per cent to arterial insufficiency — a disproportionate number of which affected male patients . |
| 3 | Qatar 's limited private sector made it less vulnerable to the dwindling of business confidence which affected other countries in the region . |
| 4 | Perhaps his greatest vulnerability was one shared with the great mass of mankind : a vanity which affected many aspects of his life , and which as he grew older increased his claims for credit for almost every activity within human reach . |
| 5 | The manufacturers were very successful at making guns out of Sussex iron , which affected naval tactics for many years . |
| 6 | The Auto and Property accounts were affected by adverse weather , including the East Coast snow storms in March which affected Personal Auto particularly , but both accounts benefited from rating action . |
| 7 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 8 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 9 | This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels . |
| 10 | The 1980 Act removed the provisions of the Employment Protection Act which affected small businesses , by increasing the qualifying period for complaints of unfair dismissal . |
| 11 | The courts were re-organized and criminal offences re-classified , reforms which affected large numbers of people , but which had been achieved with a minimum of political controversy . |
| 12 | The typically bi-modal career followed by women in Britain over recent decades ( leaving aside the marriage bar which affected older women ) has meant that married women and mothers of any marital status do not fit into structures of occupational pension provision designed for male breadwinners . |
| 13 | It was also recommended that early subject specialisation should be discouraged ( although study in depth was still desirable in the sixth form ) ; and that two clauses from the 1944 Act which affected older pupils should be implemented , namely the raising of the school leaving age to 16 and compulsory part-time further education in county colleges . |
| 14 | Engineers are still working around the clock to restore services at the Woodhouse exchange in Sheffield following a fire on October 25 , which affected 13,000 customers . |
| 15 | Oiticica 's ‘ Penetrabili ’ , booths which can be entered and explored with all five senses , were a major influence on ‘ Tropicalismo ’ , an avant-garde movement which affected Brazilian cinema , theatre and music in the late Sixties . |
| 16 | The other problem which affected some law centres was the necessity to obtain exemption ( a ‘ waiver ’ ) from the professional rules of etiquette imposed by the Law Society . |
| 17 | Coupled with a down-turn in North Sea exploration which affected some areas of our business , this meant profits rose by some 10 per cent , whilst our turnover of £203.6 million increased by 17 per cent . |
| 18 | Signs of progress were seen as Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic accepted the EC plan for guaranteed minority rights [ see p. 38513 ] , which affected Serbian enclaves in Croatia . |
| 19 | Dr Vickery found that there appeared to be a critical acidity level which affected both dippers ' breeding success and a stream 's population of the invertebrates on which the birds feed . |
| 20 | The other element which affected royal control was the practice of appointing deputies . |
| 21 | The legislation of 1861 was undoubtedly flawed , but it also set in train changes which affected most levels of Russian government and all levels of Russian society . |
| 22 | The study is aimed at the victims of maturity diabetes , which affects 600,000 people in Britain , and will try to find ways of preventing or delaying the disease . |
| 23 | It 's a chemical reaction which affects inert compounds such as concrete , steel , plastic — and living tissue . |
| 24 | Professional journals support and represent a vested interest and run information about that which affects that interest . |
| 25 | We have discussed interest rate risk ( which affects all bonds ) and default risk ( which affects mainly corporate bonds ) . |
| 26 | The problem is one which affects all libraries which follow a responsible programme of binding , since , for reasons both of conservation and security , serial parts must be bound as early as possible , with the result that they tend to become unavailable for consultation at a time when demand for them is relatively high . |
| 27 | It has already been noted that there is a variety of cleaning agents each of which affects specific types of soil . |
| 28 | This is a subject which affects many people in this city and is another characteristic act by a Tory Government that acts in a callous way . |
| 29 | Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the rural housing problem , which affects most people in the Third World , is so immense that no government has even tried to tackle it on a national scale . |