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

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1 He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates .
2 Milgram was interested in the effects of authority on human behaviour .
3 This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought .
4 Thus in cases in which pigment is produced , the presence of the 3.4-kb transcript correlates completely with the presence of black pigment , consistent with the effects of p mutations on eumelanosomes , while having little or no effect on pheomelanosomes .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 This international system has multiple centres of power and states are increasingly sensitive and vulnerable to the effects of interdependence .
13 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 .
14 Pensions are essentially low incomes and low incomes are especially vulnerable to the effects of inflation .
15 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 .
16 In the initial post-operative period patients may be drowsy from the effects of anaesthesia or analgesia .
17 Here in the region , the Oxford district health uthority has set up a working party on doctors hours … they 're concerned about the effects on doctors and patients .
18 However , OFWAT is concerned about the effects on health of those disconnected .
19 However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy .
20 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 .
21 And because many illnesses and deaths in developing countries do not come to the attention of doctors , who are anyway ill-informed about the effects of pesticides , real casualty figures must be higher .
22 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 .
23 Section 5.2 is concerned with the effects of inflation .
24 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 .
25 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 ’ .
26 Entropy/enthalpy compensations are strongly evident in the effects of base pair mismatches on DNA duplex stability .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 ) .
30 Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness .
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