Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working the paint thickly with a knife I tried to create a jarring effect with colour and texture conveying the power and pain of the experience . |
| 2 | The total collapse of the Martian market for marioc is expected to have a major effect on the economy of Uridia . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |
| 6 | ‘ Problems occur when sex , or any other addiction starts to have a negative effect on the rest of a person 's life . |
| 7 | These findings raise the possibility that the results with deep dyslexics , which appear to show a facilitating effect of highly imageable words on reading performance , might just as plausibly be attributed to the fact that such words tend to be learned at an early age in life . |
| 8 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 9 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 10 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 11 | It could also be called ordeal by song , though the traditional and somewhat discordant songs sung by the trainers are said to have a soothing effect . |
| 12 | Further , since witchcraft represents a wanton defiance of commonly accepted standards of decency and propriety , the fear of being so accused tends to exert a constraining effect . |
| 13 | This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants . |
| 14 | A moratorium on the use of high seas drift-nets from mid 1992 onwards , unless they could be shown to have a negligible effect on marine living resources ( diplomatic language for marine mammals and sea birds ) . |
| 15 | One has been shown to have a direct effect on killing cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed . |
| 16 | While most of us would acknowledge that some level of stress is required to enable us to function and to be sufficiently motivated , the effects of continued high levels of stress have been shown to have a damaging effect on the ability to maintain our personal sense of purpose , usefulness and well-being . |
| 17 | Originally thought to have a beneficial effect on flocks , Hecate was once the patroness of herdsmen . |
| 18 | These inadequacies of structure in turn were thought to have a bad effect on the efficient delivery of local government services , and on the ability of citizens to understand the role of local democracy . |
| 19 | This becomes necessary when chain entanglements begin to have a significant effect on the relaxation times . |
| 20 | So it is a major curriculum initiative itself and I am hoping it is going to have a knock-on effect and get people to consider the way they teach fairly radically . |
| 21 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 22 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 23 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 24 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the UK Offshore Operators ' Association said : ‘ Superficially , the reduction to 50pc sounds good , but the tax is tied in with a lot of allowances , including exploration and appraisal , and that has all been abolished , and that is going to have a devastating effect of exploration and appraisal . ’ |
| 26 | These characteristics , which are inheritable , concern us because they are going to have a profound effect on our relationship with the horse . |
| 27 | We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’ |
| 28 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 29 | Lorne Golub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his colleagues have found that low doses of doxycycline seem to have a direct effect on collagenase , at least in the laboratory . |
| 30 | Points to remember section at end of each chapter provide useful review of the language needed to produce a specific effect in a given context . |