Example sentences of "had a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | This focus on kinship had an influence on both Marx and Engels which culminated in their enthusiasm for Lewis Henry Morgan whose two principal books had a decisive effect on their later work . |
| 2 | It is not surprising , therefore , that cultural influences from Italy have , until comparatively recently , had a greater effect than have those emanating from the Balkans . |
| 3 | Time had a greater effect on reducing the CCPR than did dietary calcium . |
| 4 | Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen . |
| 5 | However , Bland 's nightmare vision had a powerful effect on the government 's thinking and on public opinion . |
| 6 | The relaxation of short selling restrictions just before delivery had a powerful effect , while the tax timing option had no value . |
| 7 | He argues that the arrival and conquests of the Spanish not only brought about the destruction of a sophisticated culture but also had a ruinous effect on the environment . |
| 8 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 9 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 10 | As later research was to show , the quality of schooling between eleven and fourteen had a pronounced effect on all measures , including the intelligence quotient . |
| 11 | Rutter et al found that detention had a neutral effect on pupil behaviour . |
| 12 | Working under pressure to meet a deadline had a motivating effect . |
| 13 | This case clearly had a traumatic effect on the victim but , just as importantly , the message from the widespread media coverage conveyed to all potential victims was essentially not a pleasant one . |
| 14 | Writing from two very different political positions they draw the same conclusion : the Congo experience had a traumatic effect upon Nkrumah 's view of Ghana 's relations with Britain , the United States and the Commonwealth . |
| 15 | Mother 's post-natal level of depression and exhaustion had a negative effect on the first-born . |
| 16 | The exposure of long-term spies like Blake , Vassall and Prime had a terrible effect on morale amongst staff in MI5 and MI6 , who were made to look like fools . |
| 17 | The stroke had a devastating effect on Stanley 's life . |
| 18 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 19 | Margaret Docherty believes the marriage break-up had a devastating effect on The Doc 's aging mother . |
| 20 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It had a devastating effect on her , ’ said one friend . |
| 22 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 23 | These terrible persecutions had a devastating effect on the rug industry , because many of the most skilful and inventive weavers were killed or forced to flee . |
| 24 | As well as the flora , railways had a devastating effect on the fauna of the regions they penetrated . |
| 25 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
| 26 | Whilst the Butt Report " scourge " had a devastating effect on the staff at Bomber Command , the Directorate of Bomber Operations at the Air Ministry were under no false illusion as to how able the Command was in striking its targets . |
| 27 | ‘ I lost my father before I signed for Rangers and his death had a devastating effect on me since we had always been so close , and not simply because he had been a professional goalkeeper in his time , ’ Goram said . |
| 28 | The steady growth of the grip of family members on so many walks of life had a stifling effect on initiative , which had hardly been encouraged before 1965 . |
| 29 | It is impossible to know the extent to which this knowledge had a reactive effect in the field , although the research was designed in such a way as to try to establish , as well as one ever could , whether there was a mask behind which respondents were concealing their true behaviour and feelings . |
| 30 | The Charter had a negligible effect on Britain : it was only published in Greek and French , with Warsaw being the first city for which a plan applying the Charter 's principles was drawn up . |