Example sentences of "[adj] to [art] effects [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This increases soil acidity , and encourages trees to form shallow roots , which are less efficient and more prone to the effects of drought . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is because thick lithosphere will tend to be more resistant to the effects of heat conduction and penetrative magmatism . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This international system has multiple centres of power and states are increasingly sensitive and vulnerable to the effects of interdependence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Pensions are essentially low incomes and low incomes are especially vulnerable to the effects of inflation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | * What is of importance here is not so much whether or not the label ‘ perceptual ’ is appropriate as whether this task is susceptible to the effects of pre-training in the same way as the motor tasks discussed earlier . |
| 19 | Thus he has found that eggs are particularly susceptible to the effects of alcohol when the chromosomes are arranged on the spindle during the second meiotic division ( during metaphase ) immediately prior to their segregation into the two daughter cells . |
| 20 | To study changes in rectal mucosa that might be attribtable to the effects of gluten , rectal biopsy specimens from untreated and treated gluten sensitised subjects were analysed morphometrically and by immunohistochemical techniques and were compared with a series of disease control mucosae . |
| 21 | Many common tests of perceptual functioning , memory or skilled performance seem insensitive to the effects of sleep loss . |
| 22 | It can not be broken in hand-to-hand combat and is immune to the effects of psychology . |
| 23 | It can not be broken in hand-to-hand combat and is immune to the effects of psychology . |
| 24 | Magnus the Pious is immune to the effects of psychology and need never take a panic , fear or any other psychology test . |
| 25 | So long as the War Altar is intact , the Grand Theogonist is immune to the effects of psychology including fear , panic , terror , etc . |
| 26 | Previously , however , the worst effects were largely avoided by a combination of the expertise of the cartographer , who knew about the inherent generalization implicit in analogue maps , while the difficulty of manipulating maps by manual means precluded most forms of analysis likely to be sensitive to the effects of error . |
| 27 | These results suggest that any sleep is enough to prevent the failures of attention which worsen performance on the tasks which are most sensitive to the effects of loss of sleep . |