Example sentences of "[verb] to have the [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stern words and punishment seemed to have the desired effect . |
| 2 | ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 3 | But it was now beginning to have the desired effect , as the newcomers started to participate . |
| 4 | What Mr Birchall noticed was that a diet lacking in silicon seems to have the same effect as one rich in aluminium . |
| 5 | Outside it , it seems to have the opposite effect . |
| 6 | In the late 1960s , Ceauşescu himself had called for a strengthening of the traditional family , but when that failed to have the desired effect of boosting the birth-rate , the regime reversed its direction from promoting old-fashioned morality as a stimulus to conception . |
| 7 | The frequency with which controversial legislation is amended by Parliament itself ( as witness the Act of 1974 which was amended in 1975 as well as in 1976 ) indicates that legislation , after it has come into operation , may fail to have the beneficial effects which Parliament expected or may produce injurious results that Parliament did not anticipate . |
| 8 | Too often , however , such ideas may fail to have the desired effect because they are found to be ‘ inappropriate ’ in some way . |
| 9 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |