Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] effects of " in BNC.

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1 Its concern with adolescent love , and the way in which its idealism and purity can not evade the sullying effects of adult realities , paralleled Minton 's own fear of lost youth , his obsession with adolescence and desire for a love that could only exist in a state untrammelled by adult responsibilities .
2 Supporters of benchmarking usually stress the invigorating effects of looking outside for comparisons .
3 For the working-class child correct physical development could help eliminate the immoral effects of a dissolute culture or unhealthy environment , contributing to a gradual improvement of national physique .
4 It concerned the toxic effects of atmospheric lead and was characterised by a series of comments like ‘ It 's claimed that even low levels of lead can cause brain damage ’ , ‘ It 's been difficult to get conclusive evidence ’ , ‘ There 's a whole lot of evidence ’ , ‘ Yes but there is conflicting evidence ’ , all delivered without any one of the four speakers actually providing figures to explain what the concern and disagreement was all about .
5 1.14 It is not yet clear how courts would treat the combined effects of , say , negligent driving and failing to wear a seat belt .
6 However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems .
7 The Victorians also realized the beneficial effects of mountain air .
8 These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) .
9 Finally , some staff realised the knock-on effects of the developments to that date , and of the predicted integration of the library and the audio-visual resources area .
10 Controversy has also surrounded the long-term effects of artificial fertilizer on the soil structure .
11 Understanding the comparative effects of size may even help to explain variation in birth sex ratios .
12 This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis .
13 The fact that researchers in the psychology of driving have not stressed the potential effects of such arousal is particularly surprising given that feelings of risk are often considered to be one of the most important variables in the control of normal driving .
14 Hypothetically , anti-lactoferrin autoantibodies could , by counteracting the anti-inflammatory effects of lactoferrin , aggravate and prolong mucosal inflammation induced by several different mechanisms , and the antibodies may therefore have pathogenetic significance even though their occurrence does not seem to correlate with disease activity .
15 On the circumference of that circle are new origins for new circles that accelerate the degeneration by annulling the compensatory effects of the preceding circle , and thereby also making its truth and beneficence appear .
16 One of Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) respondents described the financial effects of her switch from full-to part-time work as a store supervisor :
17 Consequently , the consensus opinion is that it is nutrient deficiency which is the key factor in explaining the adverse effects of acidic deposition on a wide range of tree species in a variety of settings ( figure 4.18 ) .
18 The National Radiological Protection Board has published a new broadsheet , ‘ Ultraviolet Radiation ’ explaining the biological effects of ultra-violet radiation , especially those on skin .
19 And , just as the conquest of Morocco had been undertaken at the turn of the century to counteract the divisive effects of " the Disaster " by giving Spaniards a new , common enterprise with which to identify , one might have expected that in 1956 Franco would resort to a military campaign to save Morocco to unite the regime forces around himself and divert attention away from domestic problems .
20 The malodorous slime has the dual effects of choking anyone too near the Troll and also making it extremely hard for an attacker to land a blow .
21 We report the clinical effects of a 30 second delay in cord clamping , holding the preterm infant in a position facilitating placental transfusion .
22 I was interviewed recently and I mentioned the long-term effects of being asked about drugs in interviews .
23 What it meant to move towards school records could be to increase the subjective , teacher-controlled element in selection or to diminish the relative effects of differences between teachers or schools — it was never an unambiguous change .
24 But this approach tends to neglect the monetary effects of budgetary decisions .
25 The meaning of such a history will always be determined through appeal to a transcendental signified , whereas a deconstructive analysis will demonstrate the simultaneous effects of the lack of such an authority .
26 Clothes and textiles giant Courtaulds Textiles spun annual pretax profits of £42.2m last year , up from £40.3m , after weathering the worst effects of the recession .
27 Has anyone considered the harmful effects of these plants or their sap on aquatic life ?
28 The third , by the Health and Safety Executive , is being carried out at Birmingham University and will consider the neuro-physiological effects of OP poisoning .
29 In conclusion , coadministration of indomethacin aggravated the noxious effects of immunosuppressive doses of cyclosporin A on rat endocrine and exocrine pancrease .
30 In the river Tywi in mid-Wales ‘ native brown trout can not survive the combined effects of the acidity and elevated aluminium concentrations found in water draining from conifer forests in the area . ’
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