Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] the effect of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , you could stop his money but that has the effect of privatizing the monarchy . |
| 2 | Path b 2 represents the effect of being in the intermediate class on the chances of attending a selective secondary school . |
| 3 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 4 | If you simply start the next shot from here , you are left with an awkward pause and this spoils the effect of what has gone before . |
| 5 | This has the effect of cancelling your existing covenant and in return you commit yourself to making payments under the new covenant . |
| 6 | This has the effect of greatly increasing the strength of the withdrawal reflex in response to subsequence stimulation of the siphon alone . |
| 7 | This has the effect of rounding the contours and losing some of the austerity of the unadorned triads . |
| 8 | This has the effect of eliminating from our daily lives all those negative influences , problems and restrictions and replacing them with the seeds of positive plans , happiness and an expansive and creative mind . |
| 9 | This has the effect of creating an opposition between established custom within which teachers feel secure and new ways which they are under pressure to adopt in the interests of progress . |
| 10 | This has the effect of abolishing Wages Councils and the requirement for employers to pay statutory minimum remuneration in line with wages orders made by them . |
| 11 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 12 | This has the effect of discouraging deviation from the proper flying procedures laid down in operating manuals and State and company regulations . |
| 13 | This has the effect of tipping your centre of gravity enough to sidle round the beast and gain the undercut flake that runs tantalisingly up and left before fizzling out in the centre of the slab . |
| 14 | This has the effect of reducing the entropy of the definitions , by cutting down on the randomness with which their constituent words are chosen . |
| 15 | This has the effect of diverting our attention away from previous cases where the method has failed and hence of escaping the sceptical argument which takes its start from those cases . |
| 16 | This has the effect of marginalizing non-standard vernaculars — appearing to present them as abnormal or pathological language states — when the majority of human beings throughout history must have used varieties that were , to a greater or lesser extent , non-standard . |
| 17 | This has the effect of slightly shielding the right ear from noises emanating above eye level , while sources below eye level sound fainter to the left ear . |
| 18 | This has the effect of strengthening and narrowing the aperture against crab attack . |
| 19 | This has the effect of completely undermining a planned approach to the construction of new houses and the control of new settlements . |
| 20 | These rules include provision for the calculation of a quota of votes which if gained by a candidate will ensure election and this has the effect of producing in each constituency a result in seats which is as nearly proportional as possible to the opinions of the voters . |
| 21 | This has the effect of moving the leaves of the subject and slightly affects the consistency of the measuring process . |
| 22 | This has the effect of increasing the relative weight given to nearer cash flows and hence of reducing duration . |
| 23 | The exception is where an employee is in breach of his statutory duty and this has the effect of making the employer vicariously liable . |
| 24 | This has the effect of divorcing religion — like other subjects — from the rest of the curriculum . |
| 25 | All these provisions apply to listed buildings ( of which in 1985 there were 380,000 in England , 33,000 in Scotland , and 10,600 in Wales ) but the secretary of state has power to list a building at any time , and local authorities can serve a ‘ building preservation notice ’ on an unlisted building ; this has the effect of protecting the building for six months , thus giving time for considering whether or not it should be listed . |
| 26 | The ‘ mid EQ ’ preset on channel 2 has the effect of tightening up the sound while adding a little more in the way of mid/top frequencies — a bit like playing a Strat and switching between neck pickup only and middle'n'bridge . |
| 27 | This shows the effect of pressure on the melting point of ice . |
| 28 | Figure 2 shows the effect of impact angle on the explosion of stony asteroids . |
| 29 | Figure 2 shows the effect of inhibition of NO synthase on the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 . |
| 30 | This includes the effect of acquisitions which added nearly 350 . |