Example sentences of "had little effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oslo : The government 's 1990 budget proposals had little effect , with the index slipping 2.39 to 515.81 in moderate trade . |
| 2 | However , they had little effect on changing it . |
| 3 | Britain 's first application was tabled in august , just after the Kuwait crisis , but had little effect on Defence policy at the time , because negotiations were relatively short-lived . |
| 4 | Gittell ( 1980 ) , in a research study of school-related citizen organizations in three American cities , finds that both lower- and middle-class parent organizations had little effect on educational decision-making , their declared goal . |
| 5 | The other members of the Committee had little effect on the course of the examinations . |
| 6 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 7 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 8 | Christianity in the early days had little effect on the popularity of astrology . |
| 9 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 10 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 11 | The severe depression of 1878 — 83 , which was longer and deeper in the coffee-growing Central Province than elsewhere , had little effect on cattle stealing ( Table 3.6 and Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 12 | The great changes in intellectual thinking had little effect upon European culture as a whole . |
| 13 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 14 | But the treatment had little effect , and finally Patti , unable to stand any more of his rages , divorced him . |
| 15 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 16 | Furthermore , his study suggested that , even during the first , ‘ transitional ’ year , retirement per se had little effect on physical or mental health . |
| 17 | Yet it was not clear that the Act was successful in controlling the situation after 1937 ; in Germany the banning of political uniforms had little effect on the rise of the nazis . |
| 18 | His ministrations had little effect so in early October she flew to London for professional counselling . |
| 19 | Thus the military activity which began in Flanders in 1339 had little effect . |
| 20 | Sanatoria , popular by the end of the century , were only for the better-off , apart from some charitable foundations , and in any case had little effect . |
| 21 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 22 | Apparently all teachers of junior children ‘ found sentences the most difficult thing to teach ; the most difficult thing for children to learn ; the most irritating thing when correcting work ; and decided that all hard work on sentences in the past had little effect . ’ |
| 23 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 24 | The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions . |
| 25 | Figure 3A shows , for example , that , both in Raji and RJ2.2.5 extracts , the formation of the complex is inhibited by titration with increasing concentrations of anti-Jun antibodies ; notably the presence of a larger amount ( 4–10 fold ) of non immune antiserum had little effect onto the binding . |
| 26 | She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room . |
| 27 | We had continuous news from the front , but unless it involved someone we knew , it had little effect on us . |
| 28 | Although the Vineyard had little effect on the planting of vines in England , it was popular enough to be reprinted four times as an appendix to Evelyn 's translation of Nicolas de Bonnefons ' The French Gardiner in successive editions from 1669 to 1691 . |
| 29 | Provision of the context picture after presentation of the passage , or provision of a partial context , had little effect on either ratings of comprehensibility or recall . |
| 30 | It had little effect and she had to force herself into the driving seat and begin the return journey . |