Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] the effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a change should have the effect of reducing the number of apparently aimless mergers among large firms , and this in itself might help to ameliorate the bandwagon effect on all firms during merger waves . |
| 2 | Indeed , work published by the Home Office ( Field 1990 ) suggests that other indicators may capture the effect of economic conditions better than unemployment . |
| 3 | Also , regulatory mechanisms such as increased natriuresis may counteract the effect of ACE on peripheral resistance . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) Rumours of a full bid may have the effect of driving up the target company 's share price . |
| 5 | This was heresy , or at least beyond his comprehension Erica could see the effect her words were having . |
| 6 | For some strange optical reason this makes it look bigger than it really is and it has been argued that this illusion would have the effect of making an attacking lion misjudge its leap , striking short of the true position of the prey . |
| 7 | This research will examine the effect of marketing strategies and organisational characteristics on a company 's performance by means of a comparative study of British and German machine tool manufacturers . |
| 8 | Recent changes in arbitration law may have the effect of discouraging these disputes . |
| 9 | This attitude may have the effect of blunting the critical edge of press coverage , by encouraging court reporters to perceive themselves as part and parcel of the court process , rather than as objective critics of its workings . |
| 10 | here it does not , the sponsor must understand the effect of this and consider whether it is acceptable or not . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend 's heart is in the right place , but I do not believe that his precise proposal would have the effect that he has in mind . |
| 12 | However , if the tenant has the right to determine the lease , the draftsman must be careful lest that right should have the effect of making time limits in the rent review procedure of the essence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This last amendment would have the effect of removing the deterrent which local authorities will face if they place people in their own homes and have to meet the full cost . |
| 15 | In other words , we can write : It is preferable ( and usual ) to measure the value of total output at factor cost rather than in market prices , otherwise an increase in indirect taxation or a reduction in subsidies would have the effect of raising the estimate of total output even when no greater quantity of goods and services was being produced . |
| 16 | In a new classical model , rational expectations will have the effect of eliminating many of the ‘ long and variable ’ lags of adjustment of the price level to an increase in the money supply so that the predictions of the simple quantity theory will be fulfilled with greater speed . |
| 17 | Mining engineers Meco , based at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire , say their world-wide business will cushion the effect of British pit closures . |
| 18 | History , indeed , tends to show that public intervention can have the effect of reinforcing rather than curbing market excesses . |
| 19 | If Mr. Tully has good grounds for exercising the privilege against self-incrimination , then his refusal to comply with the orders for disclosure and discovery made by Buckley J. may have the effect of assisting Mr. Tully to escape prosecution and punishment for a crime and also the effect of assisting Mr. Tully and others to keep money which belongs to Abbey . |
| 20 | True , Knox might exaggerate the effect , just as Foxe no doubt inflated the consequences of the English persecution in that Elizabethan best-seller , his Book of Martyrs . |
| 21 | The purification of βγ t and the conditions used to assay the effect of βγ t on PLC activity have been described . |
| 22 | The purification of α t and the conditions used to assay the effect of α t on βγ t -stimulated PLC activity have been described . |
| 23 | The occurrence of such an event would have the effect of reducing her motion relative to contiguous space to zero . |
| 24 | But various offsetting changes will have the effect of leaving the Treasury a net £940 million to the good in 1994-5 . |
| 25 | Thus when the index register holds a value ( say ) 4 , the " add " instruction will have the effect " add into the accumulator the contents of store location ( 99+4 ) or 103 " . |
| 26 | Where both interactive usage and Module Version Management facilities are required , then the use of a large tuning delay will ameliorate the effect on user response . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In this context a clause limiting remedies — for example , excluding or limiting the retailer 's right to reject the goods , is probably more likely to be reasonable , than a wider clause excluding liability , especially where a total exclusion would have the effect of requiring the retailer to satisfy product liability claims arising where the goods prove defective due to the manufacturer 's negligence . |
| 29 | The fact that the song and the receptor change together in the hybrids suggests that there is some control mechanism which prevents the two from becoming uncoupled from each other ; such a mechanism would have the effect of making it more likely that , whenever a male or female cricket changed its song or song-preference during evolution , some other individual of the other sex will have made the complementary change . |
| 30 | In bar 4 the combination of 1st bassoon and horns would give the effect of a chord on three horns . |