Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to all these personal accounts has had a profound effect on us . |
| 2 | This in turn has made the South more competitive and in some cases has had a positive effect on salaries . |
| 3 | For instance , there may be an increase in demand for : owned homes , as opposed to rented ones ( which will affect both the market for dousing and mortgage finance ) ; prestigious foreign saloon cars ( in the UK the demand for prestige an cars has had a significant effect on prestige German produced saloon cars , the sales of luxury UK such as triumph ( now extinct ) and Rover ) ; private education , for which UK demand is now very high ; air inclusive package tours to resorts that were exclusive ( such as Marbella in Spain , the French Caribbean , the Greek Islands etc ) . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 5 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 6 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |
| 7 | Interestingly , a majority of companies both on and off the zones considered that if anything the zones had had a beneficial effect on local business , local economic development , environmental improvements and public- and private-sector investment . |
| 8 | Diarrhetic shellfish toxins have had a disastrous effect on the seafood industry in many parts of the world . |
| 9 | This becomes necessary when chain entanglements begin to have a significant effect on the relaxation times . |
| 10 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 11 | Whether commissioned as a promotional tool or not , the showing of such films has had a major effect on the outside world 's perception of Edinburgh . |
| 12 | Intensive farming methods and particularly insecticides have had a disastrous effect on the lesser kestrel , an insectivore which now numbers only hundreds , whilst wetland birds such as the marbled teal and white-headed duck fail as their habitat is drained for crops . |
| 13 | The energy which creates earth lights seems to have a sensitizing effect on people so that they are more likely to see things psychically , and there may be outbreaks of psychic effects , such as poltergeist activity . |
| 14 | It must be remembered that these changes have had a complex effect . |
| 15 | These changes have had a marked effect on farmland as an aggregation of bird habitats . |
| 16 | The country houses of Goa still retain their Bohemian chandeliers and a mellow stateliness ( left ) , but since land reforms have had a crippling effect on incomes , they are difficult to maintain . |
| 17 | The shortcomings of organized religions in having within their ranks and amongst their leadership large numbers who do not live up to their beliefs have had a serious effect on attitudes towards religion . |
| 18 | The opposition of these two blocs has had a profound effect on the geopolitics of the global system in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Young white females are by far the most common users of crisis and suicide prevention facilities , and so these findings support the possibility that crisis centres do have a preventive effect . |
| 20 | Full advisers had exerted a valuable effect . |
| 21 | The lower prices have had a dampening effect on innovative schemes to make better use of the natural resources consumed , and will do nothing to stimulate necessary investment by the generators on modernising their capacity . |
| 22 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 23 | Guaranteed prices for agricultural products have created a knock-on effect resulting in high land prices and high food costs . |