Example sentences of "could have [art] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides monitoring the EC proposals , Mr Eggar is also keeping an eye on other government departments which he said had the tendency to introduce measures which , however well intentioned , could have the effect of strangling small businesses . |
| 2 | Certainly general policies , such as those reproduced in part below , could have the effect not only of preventing but abating existing odour nuisance , the county council having recognised that in most cases where odour pollution causes problems , the source of the odour is either close to residential property or industry is so densely concentrated that the total odour emission is unacceptable . |
| 3 | Such a quantitative approach could have the effect of reducing odour problems where those are the result of major pollutants such as hydrogen sulphide , sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen , but is unlikely to have much effect on other odour emissions , e.g. those rural in origin or those arising due to minute concentrations of chemicals with low odour threshold detection values . |
| 4 | Parliament discarded the phrase ‘ those whose minds are open to such immoral influence ’ , with its overtones of whether or not a gentleman would let his servants read such and such a book , since the words ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ already carried the sense of ‘ immoral influence ’ , together with a tacit assumption that writings or other works of the imagination could have the effect of tending to make men wicked . |
| 5 | Multiple use of easier-to-get conventional credit cards could have the effect of removing the present credit limit long-stop defence against overspending , without replacing it by the specially stringent customer vetting process which unlimited credit surely needs . |
| 6 | Finally , Mr. Langley submitted that there was a strong presumption against the court having made an order which could have the effect of overriding or emasculating section 39 , and that it would be wrong to construe the injunction as being inconsistent with powers expressly given by Parliament to the Bank of England . |
| 7 | The law recognises that the shareholders ' interest lies ultimately in the value of their shares and not in the business as such , or at least , it recognises that it should be the shareholders who determine the outcome of a bid , and hence ( as we will see in more detail in Chapter 5 ) prohibits certain forms of defensive action on the part of the target company board which could have the effect of depriving the members of an opportunity to dispose of their investment on favourable terms . |
| 8 | This could have the effect of improving girls ' spatial visualisation skills — and may also , directly or indirectly , favourably affect their learning of mathematics . |
| 9 | Perversely , unilateral action , even by the European Community , could have the effect of increasing carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 10 | Mahathir , opening the meeting , denounced the imposition of democratic or human rights conditions , saying that this could have the effect of hurting people whom aid was intended to help . |
| 11 | This could have the effect of making the persons and organizations responsible for the creation of expert systems liable to the ultimate consumers of the advice generated . |
| 12 | Clause 8.1.1 is so worded to circumvent the problem by which any time given by a creditor to a debtor could have the effect of releasing the guarantor from its obligations . |
| 13 | But to people who are not trained in science it simply did not seem possible that mankind 's puny factories , and even punier cars and refrigerators , could have an effect on the well-being of the entire world . |
| 14 | Erm again I i would n't have thought that you know odd days here and there would have any effect but if if it 's going to more long term and the you know the amount increases then it could have an effect on your premature retirement compensation . |
| 15 | We know that the volume of financial intermediation in an economy could have an effect upon aggregate demand by changing the quantity of money in circulation or the ‘ velocity ’ with which it is used or both . |
| 16 | This could have an effect far beyond Europe and contribute to the start of a new era in mental health for the world . |
| 17 | The fact that we can examine what local authorities are doing has been comprehensively ignored , yet it could have an effect on many of the points that were raise . |
| 18 | I think if the road was drawn very closely in to the greenbelt edge then that could have an effect on development pressures and it could lead to pressures for erm some er amendment the greenbelt boundary in in the future erm of plan making processes . |