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

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1 This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants .
2 The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well .
3 Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course .
4 But a handful of feminist teachers are hardly likely to have a radical effect on the entire educational milieu .
5 Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it .
6 ‘ Problems occur when sex , or any other addiction starts to have a negative effect on the rest of a person 's life .
7 The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) .
8 In this case the vindication , or otherwise , of the individual is likely to have a similar effect upon the council .
9 Then again , for a planet with Venus 's mass to have a gravitational effect on the Earth even as strong as that of the Moon , it would have to pass within about four million kilometres ( 2,500,000 miles ) .
10 By intragastric titration 1.4% and 4% ethanol were found to have a stimulatory effect on gastric acid secretion with a response equal to 23% and 22% respectively of the pentagastrin stimulated incremental acid output ( maximal acid output-basal acid output ) .
11 Decisions taken on these issues were to have a lasting effect on the geographical deployment of full-time staff .
12 Almost six weeks later , something took place which was to have a lasting effect upon the Judge family ; and it happened quite unexpectedly , without any warning .
13 At the same time as these theories were being explored in the world of school — theories designed to make the pupil the equal of the teacher — the concept of equality was beginning to have a powerful effect on education in a more overtly political sense .
14 God 's truth is meant to have a powerful effect in changing even the most deep seated of our attitudes , even attitudes like those of the early Jewish Christians towards the Gentiles which had centuries of cultural back-up to support them .
15 That is the way to have a sharp effect on the monetary environment .
16 Because bismuth is known to have a toxic effect on some microorganisms its therapeutic benefit in colitis may be related to this .
17 US business appears to have been locked into a pattern of low accumulation from which it proved difficult to escape even when the rising tide of competition began , in the sixties , to have a noticeable effect in the domestic US market .
18 WD-40 , however , is not : it seems to have a corrosive effect on some materials .
19 We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) .
20 Section 4(6) provides : ‘ Subsection ( 1 ) above shall have effect notwithstanding any decision of a court ( whether before or after the passing of this Act ) purporting to have a contrary effect . ’
21 Other factors well known to have a prominent effect on serum lipid levels , for example , obesity , diabetic control , drug therapy , alcohol consumption and diet , will be discussed .
22 The opening of the Channel Tunnel is more likely to have a detrimental effect on former non-scheme operators as they are largely concentrated in the South East corner of Britain .
23 It is no accident that the liberation of women , such as it is , should form part of a wider movement of liberation in general ; liberation for one part of the ‘ not-men ’ is bound to have a knock-on effect when your fellow groups are sometimes quite literally identified with you .
24 So it is a major curriculum initiative itself and I am hoping it is going to have a knock-on effect and get people to consider the way they teach fairly radically .
25 The first is the trend towards broader curricula in the schools , which seems likely to have a knock-on effect on A ( and AS ) levels and thence higher education .
26 While railway workers in England and Wales would suffer the brunt of redundancies , any severe job losses would be bound to have a knock-on effect in Scotland .
27 As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise .
28 But in July 1855 he then carried out a change in his administration that was to have a far-reaching effect on the scheme .
29 The ability of a local authority to sue in libel would be likely to have a chilling effect upon the potential commentator in an area of public concern about which the public at large has an interest in receiving information and observations .
30 It is also supposed to have a therapeutic effect of a ‘ brutal , surgical ’ separation of unconscious and rational convictions in order ‘ to cure us of our images or at least to limit their power ’ .
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