Example sentences of "[adv] have a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 2 | this soon tangles itself in a web of white noise and frantic improvisation which eventually has a hypnotising effect on the audience . |
| 3 | During the process of learning the student is working to achieve something ; knowledge of how close her performance is approximating to the desired goal not only has a motivating effect , but if given in sufficient detail provides information which enables her to adjust her learning nearer to the goal . |
| 4 | As a result , the 300 volts created by the adults only has a stunning effect if the prey is very close . |
| 5 | How this system of allocation has been operated and controlled has long had a significant effect in moulding the social composition of the rural village , for it has largely influenced who lives where . |
| 6 | The recession has obviously had an adverse effect on attractions throughout the country , not least of all steam railways . |
| 7 | That could only have a detrimental effect on jobs in the company 's factories , and it had already started slimming its operations as a result of the significant decline in drilling activity . |
| 8 | I feel this is possibly not a good thing at this present time , when every spectrum of Rottweiler size , shape and type can still be found in the show ring : further expansions of the gene pool can only have a destructive effect . |
| 9 | Working on the basis that there is a finite number of hill walkers , and I believe that to be the case , then spreading the load will only have a good effect on the more popular hills — some of which are showing signs of over-use . |
| 10 | Your choice will not only have a profound effect on your future life but also you will have a profound effect on the future life of whichever institution you finally decide upon . |
| 11 | Most people who supported the government when it joined the ERM did so not because they believed the forecasters ( although they were happy to do this ) , but because they believed , as a matter of principle , in the ‘ New Consensus ’ — that the active use of macroeconomic policy can only have an adverse effect and that market forces alone can deliver non-inflationary growth and full employment . |
| 12 | As for the second part of my hon. Friend 's supplementary question , I can not anticipate entirely what will happen , but the reduction in mortgage interest rates will obviously have a beneficial effect . |
| 13 | This is obviously having a detrimental effect on textile exports from the region . |
| 14 | Does it necessarily have a fissiparous effect ? |
| 15 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 16 | Providing explanations for discipline will not necessarily have an immediate effect on children 's obedience . |
| 17 | Obviously the frequency of the waves we receive will be the same as the frequency at which they are emitted ( the gravitational field of the galaxy will not be large enough to have a significant effect ) . |
| 18 | The tightening net of repression and the increased care taken to avoid ‘ risky ’ remarks naturally had a direct effect on expressions of opinion about Hitler himself . |
| 19 | Good public relations were made a priority , so that the atmosphere surrounding the team was always cordial , which obviously had a beneficial effect on the players . |
| 20 | There is varied evidence that suggests that major geographical moves , either between or within countries , not only have a disruptive effect on people 's lives , but may produce lasting changes . |
| 21 | Likewise , the agencies of central and local government necessarily have a powerful effect , both directly and indirectly , on industrial performance . |
| 22 | ’ participation in the nuclear weapons test programme had not had a detectable effect on the participants ' expectation of life , nor on their total risk of developing cancer ’ |
| 23 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act has already had a beneficial effect on our countryside and wild animals , but it is not enough . |
| 25 | Senior officers say the now familiar fixed cameras have already had a dramatic effect in reducing speed . |
| 26 | It is notorious that many scientists do not love words : scientific language has already had a disastrous effect on the use of language throughout society . |
| 27 | Maybe it was not direct aid and did not have a serious effect , but it seems difficult to imagine any sportsman , black or white , entering sport entirely unassisted . |
| 28 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 29 | It did not have a calming effect on the Indonesian crowd . |
| 30 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |