Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [conj] [art] effect " in BNC.

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1 Unless the winch or car is very under-powered , pulling up steeper on a fast launch has little or no effect on launching speed .
2 Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring .
3 Although treatment of secondary hyperprolactinaemia with a dopamine agonist may reduce plasma prolactin concentrations , it has little or no effect on the growth of a macroadenoma .
4 ‘ Treatment other than by X-rays or surgery to the pituitary gland has little or no effect
5 A more careful look at Fig 1 , reveals that , between the ages of about 15 and 18 years the age at first marriage has little or no effect on the age when the first birth occurs .
6 I 'm afraid cold hosing will have little or no effect in helping concussion , it will however help filled and puffy legs .
7 Although factors such as stature , age , and duodenal ulcer disease affect the absolute values of Vg they can have little or no effect on the changes in someone consequent upon smoking a cigarette : thus despite the small numbers studied the 25% fall is highly significant .
8 They are the points at which further information will have little or no effect on the ranking of the current set of hypotheses .
9 However , most operators ( 63 per cent ) believe the Tunnel will have little or no effect on their business .
10 Thus in cases in which pigment is produced , the presence of the 3.4-kb transcript correlates completely with the presence of black pigment , consistent with the effects of p mutations on eumelanosomes , while having little or no effect on pheomelanosomes .
11 The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on .
12 But although a great deal of solid matter had soon accumulated on one or other side of the ramparts and sometimes on both , it had little or no effect .
13 His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function .
14 Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit .
15 Parents use a variety of techniques , from reasoning and explaining to threatening and slapping , when a child is having a tantrum , all of which have little or no effect .
16 Native gels , circular dichroism spectra and differential scanning calorimetry ( C. M. Johnson , personal communication ) of purified mutant proteins show that the mutations have little or no effect on the stability and folding of the dimers , suggesting that changes in binding affinity result only from elimination of the intended intermolecular contacts .
17 An exemption clause may , contrary to appearances , have little or no effect .
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