Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 As it turned out , it blocked just those actions of adrenaline which Ahlquist had grouped with the beta receptors , and it had no appreciable effect on the alpha receptors .
2 And it had a knock-on effect .
3 It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’
4 Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister .
5 Its power is formidable and it has a direct effect on the fertility of crops and mankind — witness statues of jaguars coupling with women as a means of ensuring the tribe 's continuity .
6 So in other words , Mill accepts the arguments of Russo the arguments of the participatory er theorists that participation in government , participation in public affairs is a good thing , people should be encouraged to participate and it has an improving effect .
7 ICMS works on the basis that there are optimum natural conditions for every aspect of the growing process , and it studies the knock-on effect of every action .
8 But it had a dramatic effect on the entertainment giant 's stock .
9 But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time .
10 This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him .
11 But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action .
12 He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect .
13 Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect .
14 When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation .
15 But it has a strange effect on the tutor .
16 You have to kick out the yaw damper and put in some twinky footwork on the rudders , but it has a salutary effect .
17 one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’
  Next page