Example sentences of "effect on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Amersham finance director Bill Ellaby , the purchase of Medi-Physics , which has already started to reorganise its business to eliminate losses before completion of the deal , will have a neutral effect on earnings per share at Amersham this year but a positive effect in 1990/1 . |
| 2 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 3 | The effect on earnings per share of conversion of the remaining 8% convertible preference shares and the exercise of outstanding share options would not be material . |
| 4 | To use environmental analysis as a special intelligence source for top managers is perhaps the single most common reason why it ceases to have any effect on decisions … . |
| 5 | Deer and sheep can be induced to mate by artificially shortening the days , while lengthening the days has the same effect on ferrets . |
| 6 | The application with the particularly detrimental effect on operators ' jobs was the biscuit dough mixing automation . |
| 7 | They comprise : a goodwill write-off on disposal of the Glassrock ( home health care ) operation in the — US £117.1m ( BOC stresses the charge is balanced by an equal credit to reserves and there is no effect on shareholders ' equity or cash flow ) ; reorganisation and disposal of Glassrock — profit £14m ; reorganisation of health care division — £25.4m ; and profit on the disposal of fixed assets from continuing operations £1.6m |
| 8 | The association 's first ‘ Red Nose Day , ’ in September 1989 , emphasised the size of the problem and the devastating effect on parents . |
| 9 | Effect on parents , pupils and schools of policy changes in education |
| 10 | On the one hand , assuming the assessments to have been broadly accurate , the level of exploitation might have varied widely : it was , for instance , regarded as axiomatic that enclosed ground was worth substantially more than common , while manorial custom and estate policy could exercise a profound effect on rents . |
| 11 | The team of three , led by Dr Peter Holmes , have just finished the last field work of a three-year study of the effect on invertebrates of different peatland management strategies across Wales . |
| 12 | Antibiotics have no effect on viruses , and the only indication for their use in herpetic infection is the presence of superadded , or secondary infection by bacteria . |
| 13 | None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime . |
| 14 | Extent is the number of people who will have the pleasures or pains , and it will be invoked when we are thinking in terms of some average effect on persons affected rather than of named individuals . |
| 15 | Despite further arrests , defiance of Israeli authority had an electrifying effect on labourers throughout the territories . |
| 16 | The Tiananmen Square incident had a very negative effect on professionals and the upper-class , ’ said Alexandre Ho , a member of the Legislative Assembly and nominal leader of Macao 's liberals . |
| 17 | Secondly , as has already been stressed , the comprehensive nature of our present system of planning control has had a marked effect on values . |
| 18 | Originally thought to have a beneficial effect on flocks , Hecate was once the patroness of herdsmen . |
| 19 | I crushed some of the flowers and rubbed them on my forehead as I 'm told it has an invigorating effect on cabbages and thought it might do the same for me . |
| 20 | The constant trickling from various ‘ water features ’ — intended to drown the sound of the trains in Charing Cross station below — is having a bladder-bursting effect on visitors , so much so that clients have their own water-free waiting area . |
| 21 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 22 | The effect on attitudes towards greater State intervention and the role of planning has been summed up by Rodney Barker : |
| 23 | The shortcomings of organized religions in having within their ranks and amongst their leadership large numbers who do not live up to their beliefs have had a serious effect on attitudes towards religion . |
| 24 | Monmonier ( 1982 , p. 2 ) believes that ‘ the digital computer has had a profound effect on maps , an effect that will equal or surpass the changes in mapping occasioned by the invention of the printing press and the discovery of photography ’ . |
| 25 | It is disgraceful that the Labour party , in hock to the trade unions , is now threatening to sweep away compulsory competitive tendering , irrespective of the cost and the effect on services to the customer . |
| 26 | In addition , savings worth 19.6 million have been identified without a major effect on services . |
| 27 | Suppose that I try to act consistently as an egoist , indifferent to any effect on others which is not a means to an effect on myself . |
| 28 | It can be used to positive or negative effect on others . |
| 29 | His writings indeed had a profound effect on others whose names appeared on the list . |
| 30 | His example had a calming effect on others . |