Example sentences of "this [vb mod] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would also appear prudent to encourage increased exercise as preliminary work in non-diabetics shows this may have a beneficial effect on blood-pressure levels in hypertensives ( Roman et al , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | For example , a state enterprise may be subject to close parliamentary scrutiny by elected representatives , and this may have a major impact on the public image and hence the political vulnerability or strength of the enterprise . |
| 3 | A small gallery may have space to show work in only one medium ; this may have a distorting effect on the activity of the group as a whole or of versatile individuals . |
| 4 | This may have a profound effect on the organisms development , e.g. Down 's syndrome ( extra 21 chromosome ) , Kleinfelter 's syndrome XXY ( outwardly male , female characteristics ) . |
| 5 | This is not the place to explore arguments which characterize the scientific mode of thought as in some sense masculine ( though this may have a vital role to play in our understanding of the science of our culture if it is so : see Kelly et al . , |
| 6 | This may have a significant bearing on the scope and flexibility and approach used by the contractor in presenting the claim . |
| 7 | Obviously , frail elderly people are physically less powerful than those who look after them and in certain circumstances this may have a significant effect on their state of mind . |
| 8 | In the long run , this may have a significant effect upon your ability to control your own weight . |
| 9 | Generally speaking , female workers are less likely to undertake traditional forms of industrial action , and this may have a growing impact on the role of the labour movement in future decades . |
| 10 | Whilst the highest hill in an area would often be used , it was more important that this should have a distinctive shape or be prominent in relation to the surrounding countryside . |
| 11 | Ideally , this should have a phase-contrast facility for checking unstained slides , good quality X 16 and X 100 objectives and a built-in 35 mm camera . |
| 12 | This must have a major part to play in the increasing mindless violence of young people , imitating what they have been encouraged to believe is ‘ entertainment ’ , namely torture , murder and cannibalism . |
| 13 | The idea , the idea of it though and from an auditor 's point of view one of the things they will be looking at is that every one where you wrote when we are not doing this must have a valid reason and a new methodology must be met on how you are going to cover that particular aspect and that must be authorised . |
| 14 | This might have a significant effect on out-of-season trade . |
| 15 | This could have a devastating effect on the British economy . ’ |
| 16 | This could have a drastic effect on my turnover . ’ |
| 17 | This could have a destabilising affect on smaller financial institutions . |
| 18 | This could have a big effect on weather forecasts . |
| 19 | It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work . |
| 20 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |
| 21 | This would have a stabilising effect on the emerging democracies in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | If a post of Acting Head of Campaigns and Personnel is to be created this would have a different Job Description to that of Head of Personnel . |
| 23 | In his essay in Salmagundi , Robert Scholes argues that conservatives desire a common curriculum — any common curriculum — because this would have a unifying effect upon a society that suffers from an excess of pluralism , and this unifying effect , an achieved cultural consensus , would in itself be a good thing for the country socially and politically . |
| 24 | However , if we took our present population of farm animals and provided them with free-range conditions , this would have a severe effect on conservation in Britain . |
| 25 | This will have a knock-on effect throughout the economy , and will drive up interest rates generally . |
| 26 | This will have a great impact on records-keeping activities in these areas . |
| 27 | This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ . |
| 28 | This will have a major effect on the jobs and services councils will not be able to raise cash by other means . |
| 29 | If one syllable of our ‘ nonsense word ’ is said with a pitch that is noticeably different from that of the others , this will have a strong tendency to produce the effect of prominence . |
| 30 | This will have a significant impact on your fuel bills and help to reduce environmental pollution , but the most important thing you can do is to insulate your home properly . |