Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , yes there is ‘ bad ’ cholesterol , the LDL which are associated with a greater risk of heart disease , and ‘ good ’ cholesterol , the HDL which appear to have a protective effect . |
| 2 | This has led to farmers overstocking animals on the land which has had a devastating effect on birdlife . |
| 3 | They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area . |
| 4 | A second major influence which has had a dramatic effect in the second half of the century has been the educational approach . |
| 5 | A misrepresentation of history which has had a malignant effect on the affairs of Lewis and of crofting ever since . |
| 6 | There is , however , another and even more serious aspect of the closed mind which has had a profound effect on British archaeological thinking . |
| 7 | But there are also public fears which threaten to have a direct effect on your private life and which also arouse your feelings of human togetherness and compassion . |
| 8 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |
| 9 | Apart from caffeine ( which does have a small effect in speeding up the metabolism ) no substance we eat or drink was proved by scientific methods to have any realistic effect in speeding away our surplus fat . |
| 10 | The most substantive changes have been considerable upward adjustments in prices paid to farmers , which have had a positive effect on output . |
| 11 | When Aragon asserts that he has become " an entirely new man , he is not simply engaging in literary rhetoric , but referring quite explicitly to social and political events which have had a profound effect on his life-style . |
| 12 | Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before . |
| 13 | She 's had a positive effect on the whole family . |
| 14 | The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility . |
| 15 | In other words , although they suppress the aberrant antibody , they suppress other antibody production too and also the production of blood cells , yet they seem to have a greater effect on the abnormal antibody than they do on normal ones and in quite large numbers of patients that have been treated in this way the side effects are really relatively slight . |
| 16 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 17 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 18 | But , because of the statistical properties of the normal curve of distribution , they do have a large effect at the extremes . |
| 19 | We know they exist , however , because they do have a measurable effect : they give rise to forces between matter particles . |
| 20 | Some companies feel that they have had a beneficial effect on their trading situation , while others feel that their competitive position has been seriously undermined . |
| 21 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
| 22 | It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’ |
| 23 | Heading south and with part of it reportedly burning , it threatened to have a devastating effect on the marine environment of the northern Gulf , which was particularly vulnerable as a shallow , largely closed area of water with little natural turbulence or tidal flushing . |
| 24 | WD-40 , however , is not : it seems to have a corrosive effect on some materials . |
| 25 | It 's had a terrible effect on the hunt territory . |
| 26 | It 's had a terrible effect on the hunt territory . |
| 27 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |