Example sentences of "[vb mod] have a [adv] [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has many similarities with the old Swedish Mountain cattle ( and indeed two bulls of that type were imported in 1949 ) and it also has an unusually high incidence of a particular chromosomal translocation which might have a very minor effect on fertility . |
| 2 | Measures directly towards the amelioration of these conditions might be expected to contribute to the prevention of attempted suicide , although other factors — such as the availability of drugs , cultural attitudes , and the level of services available — might have a more immediate effect . |
| 3 | However , its calculatedly oblique and enigmatic avoiding of a direct statement — a withholding made all the more tantalizing in that it includes no less than eighteen declarative verb forms — could have a remarkably powerful effect if we imagine it being read by the person whose unnatural behaviour it describes . |
| 4 | Wasting of the large muscles starts after 24 hours , so having to lay off running for several weeks could have a considerably detrimental effect on muscle power . |
| 5 | However , it is also possible that persistent high PTHrP , unaffected by pamidronate treatment , could have a more potent effect on bone in these patients . |
| 6 | This could have a very restricting effect on teaching and assessment . |
| 7 | These three factors must be considered together because it seems that both parental mental illness and parental separation or divorce may have a particularly damaging effect on the children if they are associated with prolonged overt marital discord , especially where the child becomes directly involved . |
| 8 | The effects of such diets individually appear small , which raises the possibility that combining several of these factors may have a more substantial effect . |
| 9 | Accountability or value for money is not the only reason for knowing what government is doing and having a say in it , but the consumer may have a more direct effect on policy and the producer than any number of democratic arguers . |
| 10 | He told Macmillan that if any harm befell him ‘ it would have a most serious effect upon the relations of Ghana with the Commonwealth … the failure to help Lumumba would never be forgotten by the people of Africa . ’ |
| 11 | Property markets worldwide have crashed or look about to ; especially in Japan , a collapse in land and property prices would have a powerfully contractionary effect on the economy as a whole . |
| 12 | As to the effects of the prohibitions contained in the 1950 Act , the European Court held that this turned on the issue of –proportionality' — i.e. if the aim of the Sunday trading prohibition could be achieved by other means which would have a less serious effect on the free flow of goods , then the law would contravene Article 30 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | " We realized that for a well-known trade union to be sued by its creditors and compulsorily wound up would have a very damaging effect upon the movement . |
| 14 | The landlord may indeed wish to open up floors and other parts of the premises in connection with inspections , but such works would have a quite catastrophic effect on the tenant 's business and should therefore be resisted . |
| 15 | This will have a subtly sparkling effect , which gives such a lift to plain colours that you 'll wonder why you have n't used it before . |
| 16 | The commission believes the scheme will have a profoundly detrimental effect on the town , which it describes as of quite extraordinary quality and of exceptional architectural and historic interest . |
| 17 | Clearly , if the ratios and are stable then there is a precise relationship between and and changes in will have a totally predictable effect upon . |
| 18 | People taking certain medicines should not take alcohol at the same time , or maybe not take it at all because the alcohol will have a more pronounced effect under/or the effect of the medicine will be altered . |
| 19 | ‘ It must be self-evident that this will have a very detrimental effect on small rural or city schools , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Madam Speaker I am sure that my right honourable friend the Chancellor 's proposals to er reduce the burden of national insurance contributions will have a very beneficial effect er on employment a and on businesses but er if members opposite and er the honourable gentleman er says what he thinks clearly , if members opposite are arguing that higher public expenditure and higher taxation will have an impact on employment then he 's absolutely right . |
| 21 | In some cases quite small adjustments in the two values during the process of such negotiation will have a very large effect on the amount of development charge finally assessed . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I think the election result will have a very positive effect because it will restore people 's confidence . |
| 23 | Many announcements made by the Home Secretary are moving in the way that I have always wanted it to move , and I believe that er , in Wiltshire this will have a very positive effect . |
| 24 | that in particular roles , the computer can have a positively influential effect on the education and training of mathematics teachers . |
| 25 | Institutions in ‘ oppositional public spheres ’ can have a wholly different effect ( Schulte-Sasse 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Techniques such as guided fantasy reveal the teacher 's presuppositions which are not discussed , and these are put across in a way which can have a particularly binding effect upon the recipients . |
| 27 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 28 | Within the austere collegial melody of science even the slightest emotional shading can have a suitably dramatic effect . |
| 29 | Feminist methodological innovations can have a merely cosmetic effect , however . |
| 30 | ‘ Highlighting sexual harassment in such a way can have a totally detrimental effect , ’ he said . |