Example sentences of "effect on [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The application with the particularly detrimental effect on operators ' jobs was the biscuit dough mixing automation . |
| 2 | They comprise : a goodwill write-off on disposal of the Glassrock ( home health care ) operation in the — US £117.1m ( BOC stresses the charge is balanced by an equal credit to reserves and there is no effect on shareholders ' equity or cash flow ) ; reorganisation and disposal of Glassrock — profit £14m ; reorganisation of health care division — £25.4m ; and profit on the disposal of fixed assets from continuing operations £1.6m |
| 3 | Observation in labs and workshops highlighted the depressing effect on girls ' performance of the boys ' claim to science as their subject . |
| 4 | In all sitcoms , the laughter of the studio audience — and its obvious effect on actors ' timing and delivery — eliminates any possibility of illusion . |
| 5 | A major new training initiative set up by the Women 's Unit and the Personnel Services Division could have a profound effect on women 's employment across Europe . |
| 6 | Safer Cities co-ordinator Pam McHale said : ‘ Crime and fear of crime can have a serious effect on women 's lives . |
| 7 | They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula . |
| 8 | Advocates of liberal education and especially of its science component argue plausibly for its effect on pupils ' ability to think logically , but the evidence for such an effect is not substantial . |
| 9 | This fall in value , plus the scaling down of SERPS , will have a dramatic effect on pensioners ' incomes by the end of the century . |
| 10 | The effect on volunteers ' nails varied . |
| 11 | The petition is being organised by Stowmarket Traders ' Association , which is concerned about the effect on traders ' business of a pedestrian priority scheme introduced last August . |
| 12 | Schools can not have a real effect on children 's basic values because these have been instilled earlier by the process of primary socialization in the home and in the wider social community . |
| 13 | Providing explanations for discipline will not necessarily have an immediate effect on children 's obedience . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it is the other objection , namely the effect on children 's learning and teachers ' teaching which is the most serious . |
| 15 | Economic factors have an important effect on children 's smoking habits and evidence from the USA suggests that teenagers are even more responsive to price increases than are adults . |
| 16 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 17 | Clearly , civil war was more likely than overseas campaigns to have an immediate effect on men 's lives . |
| 18 | This is bound to have an effect on publishers ' conceptions of the market . |
| 19 | As the chart shows , the four weeks of the campaign have had almost no effect on voters ' opinions about which party could best handle the country 's non-economic as well as economic problems . |