Example sentences of "what effect " in BNC.

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1 Easy to see what effect sudden nausea at even the thought of the big glass would have on a life lived in this way .
2 We are going over to Trame to see what effect this is having . ’
3 What effect has the government had on the public mood ?
4 The debate on these options in Whitehall was one-sided , because the RAF wanted to maintain its hold on the deterrent and the Navy was still uncertain about what effect a take-over bid would have on the future size and shape of the Fleet .
5 A test ban would destabilise the nuclear balance because neither side could be sure what effect it was having on the other .
6 God knew what effect this would have on Mrs Browning , but as she went to bed that night she had no feelings of optimism left and already there yawned ahead a great void .
7 So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ?
8 What far too few historians have done is to treat this monarch as other monarchs are treated , and to ask what effect her sex and her personal relationships and actions had on her subjects and kingdom .
9 What effect will adherence to the European Exchange Rate Mechanism have on the cost of garden statuary ?
10 No one knows what effect the introduction of commercial fares will have on air travel in the former Soviet Union .
11 WITH all the generation of hot air in the past few weeks , one might ask what effect this will have on the ozone layer ?
12 Other policy issues that were observed and which need discussion and consideration included : the problem of sustaining confidence in the livestock market for those ( many of whom were family or part-time farmers ) who had no other enterprise options ; the need for an examination of the labour unit figure at present used in deciding eligibility for improvement grants with a view to its removal — those at present debarred from receiving grant ( because their unit is not big enough ) were unable to carry out improvements to develop the farm ; the case for considering what effect would be achieved by placing a limit ( e. g. 500 standard man days ) on the size of unit eligible for grant and guaranteed prices — such a limit might ensure the future of family units which were under economic pressure for amalgamation and growth of the size of units ; the need for assistance with the building of a second house to aid resettlement and hand-over problems .
13 What effect will the withdrawal of troops from Germany have ?
14 What effect will the drive into Eastern Europe and into the USSR have ?
15 The computer is fed with all the relevant data , and ecological theory , and is then asked , ‘ if we did such and such , to this lake ( or river , or bay , or whatever ) , what effect would this have on such and such a pollutant ? ’
16 And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has .
17 Concern centred on what effect this radioactive sea would have on the health of people in the area , especially if they ate large quantities of fish .
18 In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out .
19 The swing to Labour , the increase in turnout and the sharp variations in results between authorities are all relevant when it comes to examining what effect the poll tax had on voting patterns .
20 Many owners do not realize what effect their own behaviour has on their dog .
21 In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law .
22 Many of the experimental perturbations involved rearranging or removing the parts of the early embryo and seeing what effect this had on the embryo 's development .
23 For my part I simply can not predict what effect , for good or ill , this kind of centralization would have on the education service .
24 You would have a lot of hinds who lived without having any fawns , and nobody quite knows what effect that would have .
25 The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have .
26 What effect does the radiation from the radon daughters have upon the human body ?
27 Now , I thought , I shall be able to think this out : to find out exactly what it is that has happened to me , to see what effect it is going to have on my life , and how I am going to deal with it .
28 What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group .
29 While there are no data from the Philippines that indicate what effect these soil losses will have on productivity , information from other tropical regions ( e.g. Pimentel et al. 1987 ) suggests that productivity will drop by between 15 and 70 per cent depending on the rate of soil formation in relation to the rate of soil loss .
30 A useful guide to the first two is to see what effect a symptom has on the patient 's ability to function as a whole , creative , happy , loving human being , taking into account their normal state of course !
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