Example sentences of "[conj] it had [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 It was disappointing that it had no significant effect on the tachycardia , but this may be helped by more sparing use of hyoscine butylbromide .
2 And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion .
3 Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life .
4 During the interval it was a chastened but not dispirited European team which lunched together in the solitude of the team H.Q. We will never learn what was discussed but there is no doubt that it had the desired effect .
5 Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect .
6 As it turned out , it blocked just those actions of adrenaline which Ahlquist had grouped with the beta receptors , and it had no appreciable effect on the alpha receptors .
7 And it had a knock-on effect .
8 It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’
9 Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister .
10 But it had a dramatic effect on the entertainment giant 's stock .
11 But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time .
12 This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him .
13 But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action .
14 He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect .
15 Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect .
16 When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation .
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