Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us . |
| 2 | This in turn has made the South more competitive and in some cases has had a positive effect on salaries . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Although the recession has had a serious effect on certain sections of our Group , the result for 1992 was one of considerable merit . |
| 5 | Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching . |
| 6 | For instance , there may be an increase in demand for : owned homes , as opposed to rented ones ( which will affect both the market for dousing and mortgage finance ) ; prestigious foreign saloon cars ( in the UK the demand for prestige an cars has had a significant effect on prestige German produced saloon cars , the sales of luxury UK such as triumph ( now extinct ) and Rover ) ; private education , for which UK demand is now very high ; air inclusive package tours to resorts that were exclusive ( such as Marbella in Spain , the French Caribbean , the Greek Islands etc ) . |
| 7 | That experiment has had a remarkable effect on the performance of both pupils and helpers . |
| 8 | Research has shown the harmful effects of stress on the mother and fetus . |
| 9 | Whatever the causes , the rise in part-time work has had a profound effect on the employment conditions and prospects of a growing number of workers . |
| 10 | ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’ |
| 11 | For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines . |
| 13 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 14 | Whether commissioned as a promotional tool or not , the showing of such films has had a major effect on the outside world 's perception of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | From the Ice Age onwards climate has had a dramatic effect upon the landscape , the kinds of cultivation and the uses of land for industrial and domestic purposes . |
| 16 | The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme . |
| 17 | Left : On the mantelpiece Rita has created a magical effect using glass baubles , draped ivory satin and a group of lit candles |
| 18 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |
| 19 | The computer revolution has had a profound effect on the mathematics associated with the analysis of computer programs . |
| 20 | He believes that this estrangement has had a beneficial effect on his prose and that his fusion of English and French thought has resulted in a unique hybrid . |
| 21 | It is unclear whether his Lordship still believed that there should be a different standard of review for inferior courts and for other administrative institutions , but more recent authority has interpreted the combined effect of Anisminic and O'Reilly to mean that the same broad standard of review should , in principle , apply to both . |
| 22 | The opposition of these two blocs has had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the global system in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 23 | Even its critics concede that the Saatchi Collection has had a profound effect on the visual culture of this country , but it has always occupied an uneasy position — it has the status of a national institution , yet it is in private ownership . |
| 24 | Table 4.4 , which summarises the main studies , shows that they all agree that regional policy has had an important effect on job creation though they disagree on how important it has been . |
| 25 | Mike Radford 's paper , Auditing for Change , reviews the work and effectiveness of the Audit Commission , arguing that the Commission has had a profound effect on the debate about the future of local government . |
| 26 | There 's been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about ‘ the depressed market ’ , and certainly the fiscal policy of high interest rates has had the short-term effect that was intended . |
| 27 | As Mira sees it , this form of language use has had an indelible effect on human consciousness : |
| 28 | Secondly , as has already been stressed , the comprehensive nature of our present system of planning control has had a marked effect on values . |
| 29 | This legislation has had a limited effect , as we shall show . |
| 30 | Alan Smith , commercial director of Vista Computer Systems , said : ‘ The new VAT legislation has had a profound effect on computer systems used by publishers . |