Example sentences of "may have [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 Such interactions may have adverse effects on either product or container or both .
2 The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career .
3 Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child .
4 The core of weekday daytime programming is the ‘ playlist ’ , which has three major uses for Radio I : it provides an overall sound or ‘ station feel ’ ; it is an effective way to monitor how often the most popular records are played ; and it makes a group responsibility out of a decision which may have far-reaching effects for individual musicians and the music industry .
5 A final problem is that these substances may be taken up into the blood supply as it passes through the brain and carried to other parts of the body where they may have toxic effects that confound their effects on the nervous system .
6 There are various restrictions and disclosure requirements in relation to such dealings , and dealings may have certain effects on the offer .
7 However , the phenomenon is unusual in healthy individuals and it is conceivable that circulation stresses may have similar effects on platelets in vivo .
8 Such actions may be perceived as regulation or deregulation and may have economic effects ( as will be discussed in chapter 4 and elsewhere ) , but they may essentially be a response to special interests or to fashions in ideas .
9 One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality .
10 Thus a tax on capital income may have second-round effects on the accumulation of both physical and human capital .
11 I am in favour of that , but that is different from setting up international agencies whose legislation and ideas may have devastating effects on industries in western countries while leaving eastern countries to carry on processes over which the rest of us have no control .
12 In addition to cancer inductions , ionizing radiation may have significant effects on pre-natal development and on genetic or hereditary factors .
13 Claims may have significant effects on the cost of a project to the client .
14 Certain chemical substances , if present in the mother 's body during the earlier weeks of development may have dire effect ( for example the thalidomide affair ) .
15 Premature and difficult parturition are associated with a variety of disorders in child development , including some psychological and emotional disorders ; however , it must be recognised that pre-natal factors or others may have dual effect on both labour and child development rather than a causative effect from one to another .
16 There is growing evidence , therefore , that inositol phosphates may have direct effects on calcium channels within the plasma membrane .
17 It may have rippling effects and result in more general kindness throughout society .
18 Drugs which act on dopamine pathways in general may have widespread effects on addiction .
19 A person 's position in a stratification system may have important effects on many areas of life .
20 There are risks involved in vaccinations , and the vaccination itself may have harmful effects , especially if incorrectly given .
21 Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses .
22 However , a quarrel between parties may have deleterious effects on the adoption or the child itself may be the cause of disagreement .
23 There is further evidence that untreated middle ear disease in childhood may have permanent effects .
24 Hence , where a particular company , individual or government is not observing Community law , the person who is adversely affected by this failure may commence an action to enforce his or her rights under Community law ; this may have profound effects .
25 These procedures are detrimental to the therapeutic relationship , and may have unforeseen effects on physical status .
26 * Changes in the UK population structure may had radical effects on the markets for housing , accommodation and personal pension finance , as the age structure of the population becomes dominated by more and more people aged 40 plus .
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