Example sentences of "have some effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has some effects , not obviously related , on coughing ( for which it is a useful suppressant ) and on the bowels ( where it causes inconvenient constipation ) . |
| 2 | What if the replicator has some effect upon something else , which affects something else , which affects something else , which … eventually , indirectly affects the replicator 's chance of being replicated ? |
| 3 | The rate of interest has some effect on L 1 , albeit rather small ( see Figure 16.5 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I think television and the screen has some effect upon this because it is such a memorable means of communication , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 6 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 7 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it seems to have had some effect on Sandys . |
| 9 | The self-discipline and lessened dependence on each other that Helen had hoped for had had some effect on Edward , as his first letter to Helen from his Oxford lodgings shows : |
| 10 | Recent legislation has had some effect in keeping rents within reasonable bounds , and in providing security of tenure for tenants against landlords ; and under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 many residential tenants now have a right of first refusal where the landlord proposes to dispose of his interest in the property . |
| 11 | Already , he has had some effect in cooling cultural animosities , in ‘ bringing the ghetto to the suburb and the suburb to the ghetto ’ . |
| 12 | Stirling sent a blistering series of signals to both the Eighth Army and MEHQ which seem to have had some effect . |
| 13 | Switchboard as an organization has probably had some effect on more of us , as callers and as volunteers , than any other single campaign or group has done in the recent history of lesbian and gay rights in this country . |
| 14 | Organised pressure from women within the parties has had some effect . |
| 15 | This century has seen a remarkably rapid secularization of British society ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) which has had some effect upon the decline in voluntary action . |
| 16 | The project has undoubtedly had some effect on the organisation and running of the libraries themselves . |
| 17 | Perhaps they have had some effect , by importing into English prisons a tradition of collective action by prisoners in pursuit of demands made of the prison authorities . |
| 18 | It can not be assumed , therefore , that stimulation would not have had some effect on another occasion in those patients who were stimulated but showed no interference in their speech . |
| 19 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 20 | Now , because everything we did or said might have had some effect on John , I found it hard to relax about any aspect and always felt that we had to do more , be more efficient , keep up the pressure . |
| 21 | Jenner wondered if the unanaesthetised de-clawing may have had some effect on this , and he offered the theory that an alternative source of pain might cause a distraction from the tail-crushing effects of caudate stimulation . |
| 22 | And on the Tuesday morning it was seen to have had some effect . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , well , your little lecture must have had some effect . |
| 24 | Electric fences around sensitive areas and electrified human dummies have also had some effect , apparently warding off marauding tigers . |
| 25 | His words to Osman appeared to have had some effect . |
| 26 | Anglo-American diplomacy , it seemed , had had some effect . |
| 27 | However , such groupings do exist and they do have some effects on , and are affected by , the political practices of the TCC in most countries . |
| 28 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 29 | However as no dose can ever be too small then any dosing level will have some effect . |
| 30 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |