Example sentences of "[pron] have [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect .
7 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 .
8 As we shall see , there are several processes , in addition to the sexual process of higher organisms , which have this effect .
9 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 .
10 If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect .
11 However , they had little effect on changing it .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 However , they had little effect on the mainstream of Conservative thinking .
15 Blatant sexist readings are on the decline , and where they still exist they have little effect because of the successful appropriation by women of their own discourse .
16 The provisions of the Act are complex , but they have little effect on media freedom .
17 But when drug treatment is given , the protein pumps the drugs back out , so they have little effect .
18 I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect .
19 If it has that effect , it is not disputed that the rule of law applies , namely , that the release of one of two joint debtors has the effect of releasing the other .
20 It has that effect only because of the way the rest of the computer is wired up .
21 It has that effect .
22 It has little effect at low currents but severely reduces voltage at high currents .
23 The publicity is fairly short-lived , of course it has tremendous effect on the British media , and we 're all very , very happy for the families of these people
24 If it has any effect , it will be slightly beneficial on the inflation front , but I would n't want to exaggerate that .
25 erm , my Lord , in relation to that erm and er is an example , the European court itself and only the European court has the power to limit the direct effect of the provision , they can say well it has direct effect in these circumstances prospectively , but not retroactively and only the European court , that court alone has that power , all other courts , national courts must , my Lord this is your duty under article five I would submit to enforce article eighty five and three F
26 Young age at marriage powerfully increases the fertility of working-class women , but it has less effect on the fertility of middle-class women .
27 Once a patient has his magic number , does it have any effect ?
28 The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect .
29 Mrs. Jones did not understand that it had that effect , notwithstanding that the creditor 's solicitor went through the mortgage with her and explained it to her before she signed .
30 All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably .
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