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

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31 This in turn has made the South more competitive and in some cases has had a positive effect on salaries .
32 A misrepresentation of history which has had a malignant effect on the affairs of Lewis and of crofting ever since .
33 For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance .
34 Womanhood in general , I think , has had a big effect on my life , women are very effective .
35 Initial indications are that the treatment has had a marked effect , but a close eye will be kept on the situation , and regular reports made to the council .
36 Secondly , as has already been stressed , the comprehensive nature of our present system of planning control has had a marked effect on values .
37 The identification of imagination , not with enhanced perception but with self-expression and ‘ originality ’ , has had a harmful effect on education .
38 That experiment has had a remarkable effect on the performance of both pupils and helpers .
39 Even its critics concede that the Saatchi Collection has had a profound effect on the visual culture of this country , but it has always occupied an uneasy position — it has the status of a national institution , yet it is in private ownership .
40 The science of biology , therefore , has had a profound effect on how we view our sexual identity .
41 It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’
42 One of the major social phenomena in Latin America since the Second world war and one that has had a profound effect on the social transformation of the continent , is the urban explosion .
43 Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us .
44 Mike Radford 's paper , Auditing for Change , reviews the work and effectiveness of the Audit Commission , arguing that the Commission has had a profound effect on the debate about the future of local government .
45 Alan Smith , commercial director of Vista Computer Systems , said : ‘ The new VAT legislation has had a profound effect on computer systems used by publishers .
46 There is , however , another and even more serious aspect of the closed mind which has had a profound effect on British archaeological thinking .
47 Whatever the causes , the rise in part-time work has had a profound effect on the employment conditions and prospects of a growing number of workers .
48 But more subtly , lack of job satisfaction has had a profound effect on their morale and ‘ staying power ’ .
49 The computer revolution has had a profound effect on the mathematics associated with the analysis of computer programs .
50 Monmonier ( 1982 , p. 2 ) believes that ‘ the digital computer has had a profound effect on maps , an effect that will equal or surpass the changes in mapping occasioned by the invention of the printing press and the discovery of photography ’ .
51 This has had a profound effect on systems analysis and database design .
52 The opposition of these two blocs has had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the global system in the second half of the twentieth century .
53 In America a law that forces companies to measure and disclose all the toxic waste they produce has had a significant effect .
54 For instance , there may be an increase in demand for : owned homes , as opposed to rented ones ( which will affect both the market for dousing and mortgage finance ) ; prestigious foreign saloon cars ( in the UK the demand for prestige an cars has had a significant effect on prestige German produced saloon cars , the sales of luxury UK such as triumph ( now extinct ) and Rover ) ; private education , for which UK demand is now very high ; air inclusive package tours to resorts that were exclusive ( such as Marbella in Spain , the French Caribbean , the Greek Islands etc ) .
55 Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain .
56 But it also shows that the introduction of the test of ‘ sufficient interest ’ has had a liberalizing effect on the law of standing .
57 RECENT observations suggest that the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 has had a considerable effect on ozone concentrations in the tropical stratosphere ( refs 1 , 2 , and J. W. Waters , personal communication ) .
58 The total collapse of the Martian market for marioc is expected to have a major effect on the economy of Uridia . ’
59 So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect .
60 ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’
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