Example sentences of "[verb] it to [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 2 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 3 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 4 | She had a strong sense of the dramatic , and could use it to good effect when occasion demanded . |
| 5 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 6 | Then you can concentrate on using it to good effect . |