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

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1 At the end of the first paragraph , the sudden brevity of the sentence " The miners were being turned up " has an effect comparable to that of Conrad 's final sentence .
2 In Morrison 's view , a law for the protection of the Jewish community might have an effect contrary to that intended .
3 The Minister was empowered to direct a committee to investigate the operation of a milk marketing scheme ; if the committee reported to the Minister that the scheme was having an effect contrary to the interest of consumers and was not in the public interest , the Minister could , if he thought fit , amend the scheme .
4 The conservative bias in estimating lives was maintained for new investment , and other highly conservative accounting practices generally had an effect similar to replacement cost depreciation .
5 In the study by Chacin et al on isolated toad gastric mucosa beer and wine had an effect similar to low concentrations of ethanol .
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