Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [det] effect " in BNC.

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1 This not only creates body but also takes a lot of the hard work out of blow-drying as styling very wet hair has little effect .
2 Judges ruled that the ban on the National Salvation Front was unconstitutional but the decision has little effect as Mr Yeltsin last month cancelled the ban , imposed in December , in a decree .
3 This pull has little effect on the land but is strong enough to move the waters .
4 Grief has that effect sometimes , ’ Nathan said quietly .
5 I 've found that regular spraying has little effect when the air is dry for so long .
6 Arguably the appointment of an administrator for the more advantageous realisation of the company 's assets than a winding-up has this effect since this constitutes a virtual cessation of business .
7 The shoulder torque has most effect on the arm of the player , the wrist torque on the club itself .
8 One particular weather condition has more effect on bream fishing than any other ; wind .
9 An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed .
10 Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) .
11 It is not known , however , whether body fat distribution has any effect on the ability to conceive ( fecundity ) independent of weight and menstrual disorders .
12 A tiny tree has little effect on your light and makes the garden next door look nicer .
13 For instance , people have long known that squeezing lemon juice on sliced fruits prevents them from turning brown , but until recently it was not known why lemon juice has this effect .
14 Rail strike has little effect on area 's business
15 Further work is underway to confirm whether dietary vitamin C supplementation enhances this effect , and to discover if such an approach can reverse precancerous conditions in the gastric mucosa .
16 He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output .
17 Age has little effect on dominance in hens , but in many primates older animals are often dominant to juveniles .
18 Exactly how the Pill produces this effect is unknown — the simplistic explanation usually offered is that the hormones in the Pill promote Candida because they are steroids , but this is really no explanation at all .
19 It is thought that , because bacteria are so tiny , the Earth 's gravity has little effect on them and they need their miniature magnets to guide them into the sediment .
20 Success has another effect , which is that of slackening effort .
21 But because a given change in performance has less effect on fitness later in life , we expect deleterious mutations to cause a greater drop in fertility and survival probability later in life , assuming the same mutation rate for each age .
22 Its power as a discourse ensures that this concept of the subject has more effect on feminist psychology than does the feminist concept .
23 The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) .
24 Thus the study will explore what relationship , if any , exists between entry qualifications and completion rates , whether the age of the candidate has any effect , the success rates of women compared to men and how important full-time study is as compared to the part-time mode .
25 Love has that effect on us .
26 This operation has little effect on day-to-day behaviour , although it is not completely without consequences .
27 As the number of phases increases the reduction factor tends towards unity and the system inertia has less effect on the low-speed pull-out torque .
28 What if the replicator has some effect upon something else , which affects something else , which affects something else , which … eventually , indirectly affects the replicator 's chance of being replicated ?
29 Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors .
30 If this were the case there would be no need to propose that risk has any effect on memory or attention at all in these situations .
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