Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] have a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monmonier ( 1982 , p. 2 ) believes that ‘ the digital computer has had a profound effect on maps , an effect that will equal or surpass the changes in mapping occasioned by the invention of the printing press and the discovery of photography ’ . |
| 2 | Although the recession has had a serious effect on certain sections of our Group , the result for 1992 was one of considerable merit . |
| 3 | Mrs Postance believes that the heavy digging already completed to prepare the ground for the national curriculum has had a beneficial effect , at least on the teachers , even if the children have yet to reap the harvest : ‘ It 's focused our minds on what we are teaching . |
| 4 | That experiment has had a remarkable effect on the performance of both pupils and helpers . |
| 5 | Arousal in this study appeared to have a beneficial effect on memory for both types of information quite contrary to the predictions of Easterbrook 's hypothesis and to the results of the Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) study . |
| 6 | But this second act of violence proves to have a healing effect . |
| 7 | Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new . |
| 8 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 9 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 10 | Whatever the causes , the rise in part-time work has had a profound effect on the employment conditions and prospects of a growing number of workers . |
| 11 | ‘ If the law has to have a proper effect then landlords and breweries should know that to serve young people like this , they are in danger of losing their licences . ’ |
| 12 | For the manual working class the pattern of mobility has had a double-edged effect , on the one hand increasing the possibility of ‘ social advancement ’ ( although this remains slim for men who have passed their mid-20s ) , while on the other reducing the influx of people from other backgrounds . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines . |
| 14 | But even if there is not this causal connection , the fantasy does have a causal effect . |
| 15 | Lorne Golub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his colleagues have found that low doses of doxycycline seem to have a direct effect on collagenase , at least in the laboratory . |
| 16 | From the Ice Age onwards climate has had a dramatic effect upon the landscape , the kinds of cultivation and the uses of land for industrial and domestic purposes . |
| 17 | In Mr Bullins 's opinion , the war had had a regrettable effect upon Oxford , and even upon Magdalen . |
| 18 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |
| 19 | The computer revolution has had a profound effect on the mathematics associated with the analysis of computer programs . |
| 20 | He believes that this estrangement has had a beneficial effect on his prose and that his fusion of English and French thought has resulted in a unique hybrid . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 22 | But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting . |
| 23 | Even its critics concede that the Saatchi Collection has had a profound effect on the visual culture of this country , but it has always occupied an uneasy position — it has the status of a national institution , yet it is in private ownership . |
| 24 | Mike Radford 's paper , Auditing for Change , reviews the work and effectiveness of the Audit Commission , arguing that the Commission has had a profound effect on the debate about the future of local government . |
| 25 | Secondly , as has already been stressed , the comprehensive nature of our present system of planning control has had a marked effect on values . |
| 26 | Matza ( 1969 ) was particularly influential in proposing that the correctionalist stance had had a distorting effect in criminology , and in advocating an alternative . |
| 27 | This legislation has had a limited effect , as we shall show . |
| 28 | Alan Smith , commercial director of Vista Computer Systems , said : ‘ The new VAT legislation has had a profound effect on computer systems used by publishers . |
| 29 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 30 | This approach tends to have a neutral effect on a decision about whether to be part of home or market production , avoiding women 's role being institutionalized as dependants . |