Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] have [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 Adding in more tone from the guitar has the desired effect , but the Ovation 's EQ is very sensitive and there 's a fine line between improving or overdoing it .
2 Of course , large parts of the brain are involved whenever the beaver builds a dam but , when the G mutation affects this particular part of the brain 's wiring diagram , the change has a specific effect on the behaviour .
3 The contract has a fundamental effect on our business , ’ said Runcorn operations manager .
4 In the end , I 'd say , ‘ Yes , you are but I love you anyway , ' ’ In truth the experience had a dreadful effect on her marriage and on her relationship with her brothers and sisters , who fell out with her .
5 In this sense one is neutral only if one can affect the fortunes of the parties and if one helps or hinders them to an equal degree and one does so because one believes that there are reasons for so acting which essentially depend on the fact that the action has an equal effect on the fortunes of the parties .
6 Now , the mere sight of the cake crumbs floating on the tea has no particular effect on him , but suddenly when he actually tastes them he gets a strange feeling of excitement , a feeling almost of elation .
7 But the development of state intervention in the course of the boom had an important effect on reactions to growing economic difficulties .
8 The stroke had a devastating effect on Stanley 's life .
9 This is known as a ‘ negative feedback ’ response , where additional inputs into the equation have a regulatory effect .
10 The Princess has a curious effect on pregnant women .
11 In this discussion , Poulantzas relies on a counterfactual claim to defend his view that the peasantry had a pertinent effect at the political level — namely Bonapartism — and were thus a distinct class .
12 The cold had a turbo-charging effect on the little engine .
13 of women raped by a relative ( not a husband ) reported that the rape had a great effect on their lives , whereas the same effect was reported by only 39 per cent .
14 Knowing or not knowing the title of the passage had a significant effect on recall , as did word order .
15 Inevitably , the divorce had a bad effect on our relationship because I did n't know how to handle the situation .
16 The grain size of the sediment has a direct effect on the percolation rate which is the main control of gradient , the coarser the beach sediment the steeper the slope .
17 The move had the desired effect but the Indians ' ‘ Friendship Tour ’ was also threatened yesterday by a sex scandal .
18 The survey , sponsored by Pannell Kerr Forster , the East Midlands Tourist Board ( EMTB ) and Nottingham Polytechnic showed that 63% of all hotels in the region believed the UBR had a detrimental effect on business .
19 A DoT expert says : ‘ The breathalyser had a dramatic effect on people 's behaviour but it 's fair to say that people got used to it and began to take various avoiding actions .
20 The Charter had a negligible effect on Britain : it was only published in Greek and French , with Warsaw being the first city for which a plan applying the Charter 's principles was drawn up .
21 Lois Brown was certain that the catalogue had a marked effect on sales in Belfast .
22 The nature of the impact has a considerable effect on the pressure exerted on the cliff face and a number of different types have been examined by Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) .
23 Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin .
24 Further , acknowledgement of the fact that ‘ gods ’ have always been man-made , would also acknowledge that what has happened in the past has no binding effect , in short , humanity can at any time reconsider its ideas of ‘ god ’ and keep them abreast of its progress in all other fields .
25 But , by regressing to the original occasion and examining the circumstances involved , we can gain sufficient insight into ourselves and our problems to prevent the past having a traumatic effect upon our present and our future .
26 The music has an awakening effect , which has you leaving the theatre with more energy and life than before . ’
27 The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table .
28 The statement had an extraordinary effect on Emily .
29 The lengthy period of training required for admission to either branch of the profession has a socializing effect on entrants to the profession .
30 The wasp has no other effect on the environment and the bumble bee is left to busy himself among the plants , pollinating the flowers in a naturally effective way .
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