Example sentences of "[pron] had a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 2 | One day something happened which might seem unimportant , but which had a great effect on Oliver 's future . |
| 3 | The French menace produced a more immediate response which had a remarkable effect on the Sussex landscape , although it seems in retrospect like bolting the stable door after the horse had fled . |
| 4 | He , busy with Euclid and Latin , did not notice the passage through Parliament of Balfour 's Education Act of 1902 — which had a profound effect on the shape of secondary education throughout Britain , and therefore in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | The wry tone was accompanied by that impenetrable gaze , which had a disastrous effect on her composure . |
| 6 | So when would a rule or practice which had a discriminatory effect be ‘ justifiable ’ ? |
| 7 | One aspect of Peter the Great 's reforming energy in the early eighteenth century , which had an indirect effect on the population dynamics of Siberia , was his massive use of convict and forced labour on his gigantic construction projects in European Russia , in particular the building of St Petersburg , the digging of canals and the fortification of new ports and harbours , like Rogervik , on the Baltic . |
| 8 | She had a similar effect on people . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , she had a strong effect on me , and an odd one . |
| 10 | Two formative influences on the early Middle Ages were Pope Gregory the Great 's preaching of Christianity to the Lombards and ( through Augustine of Canterbury ) to the Anglo-Saxons ; and the peregrinatio , or self-imposed exile for God 's sake , of Irish monks like St Aidan at Lindisfarne , St Columbanus in Burgundy , and St Gall in Suabia , who had a vast effect in spreading Christianity . |
| 11 | The Second World War itself had an erratic effect on the tempo of British fertility . |
| 12 | It was as if marks for the day 's work were being displayed in the school classroom , and they had a similar effect of inspiring competition . |
| 13 | In other words , it was said that they had an aversive effect and that , far from tempting those who had not experienced the acts to take part in them , they would put off those who might be tempted so to conduct themselves … " |
| 14 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 15 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It had a devastating effect on her , ’ said one friend . |
| 17 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
| 18 | It had a pepper-pot effect that did not represent a comprehensive approach to urban regeneration . |
| 19 | It had a sobering effect . |
| 20 | And it had a knock-on effect . |
| 21 | It had a demoralising effect on us , and we wondered how long this could go on . |
| 22 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 23 | It had a cathartic effect upon government and employers and permitted the working classes at least to protect , if not improve , their standard of living . |
| 24 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 25 | But it had a dramatic effect on the entertainment giant 's stock . |
| 26 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 27 | But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time . |
| 28 | It had a profound effect on myself and all ranks who were forced to watch , " |
| 29 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 30 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |