Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] effects [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Milgram was interested in the effects of authority on human behaviour .
2 This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought .
3 Sometimes the enamel is almost entirely eaten away , and the dentine can take on an appearance similar to the effects of weathering ( Fig. 3.23 H ) .
4 The effects of this regime on subsequent recovery sleep are similar to the effects of REM sleep deprivation , in that a rebound of about 50 per cent occurs on recovery nights .
5 Such a system will be highly resistant to the effects of damage to individual modules and will only begin to show marked alterations in function when a large proportion of the modules has been damaged .
6 This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism .
7 Not surprisingly , its distribution on any shore reflects the distribution of its favoured prey , subject to the effects of predation , desiccation and other physiological stresses , such as salinity and cold ( see p. 303 ) .
8 The volcanic rocks of the island of Madeira ( tufas and volcanic ashes interbedded with basaltic lavas ) have long been subject to the effects of rain and rivers .
9 It is uncertain whether neuroleptic medication is protective against the effects of life events , although it is well accepted to be protective against high emotional arousal .
10 This international system has multiple centres of power and states are increasingly sensitive and vulnerable to the effects of interdependence .
11 Referring to recent studies indicating that some people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleep disruption , the authors of this report suggested that work should be done to identify those doctors who are most at risk , in order to assign them to other duties .
12 Pensions are essentially low incomes and low incomes are especially vulnerable to the effects of inflation .
13 The sole practitioner is especially vulnerable to the effects of sickness or other absence and the financial management regime must provide sufficient cover for such factors .
14 In the initial post-operative period patients may be drowsy from the effects of anaesthesia or analgesia .
15 However , OFWAT is concerned about the effects on health of those disconnected .
16 However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy .
17 Financial intermediaries , predominantly banks , are not particularly concerned about the effects of inflation on their balance sheets , so long as their loans and deposits are all made on a similar basis .
18 Acknowledging the concepts of Dansereau ( 1957 ) that man creates new genotypes and new ecosystems , he considers nature without man as natural biogeography in Part I of his book and then uses this as a datum against which to set the larger Part II in which cultural biogeography is concerned with the effects of man in changing the genetic make-up of plants and animals , in redistributing them over the earth 's surface , and in altering the structure of many ecosystems .
19 Section 5.2 is concerned with the effects of inflation .
20 Lubow , Rifkin , and Alek ( 1976 ) have explicitly investigated the role of the context in a series of experiments concerned with the effects of pre-exposure on discrimination learning in both children and in rats .
21 Indeed in one section , concerned with the effects of improvement and major repairs on the number of houses to be replaced , the report comments that ‘ Solomon himself would not have known the correct answer ’ .
22 Entropy/enthalpy compensations are strongly evident in the effects of base pair mismatches on DNA duplex stability .
23 It is unclear , however , whether the impaired gastrointestinal motility is secondary to the effects of amyloid on the smooth muscle or on the autonomic nervous system , because there have been few reports assessing the clinicopathologic features in a considerable number of amyloidosis patients with intestinal pseudo-obstruction .
24 On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity .
25 The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) .
26 On July 31 , 1989 , Bernard Valcourt pleaded guilty in Edmundston , New Brunswick , to a charge of impaired driving due to the effects of alcohol , and resigned as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and as Minister responsible for Canada Post .
27 It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies .
28 The reason why males die more readily than females do is attributable to the effects of testosterone and the only cure for this is to be castrated , and the earlier you are castrated the lo if you 're a male , the longer your life expectancy will become compared with , compared with females .
29 For those not familiar with the effects of earth energy lines , Mr Heye sent further documentation with his letter that listed some of the tell tale signs that may show someone is suffering from bad earth vibes .
30 Later Barton became increasingly preoccupied with the effects of overpopulation .
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