Example sentences of "have a considerable effect " in BNC.

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1 In the essay with Watt he writes : ‘ The intrinsic nature of oral communication has a considerable effect upon both the content and transmission of the cultural repertoire ( 1968 , p. 29 ) .
2 The nature of the impact has a considerable effect on the pressure exerted on the cliff face and a number of different types have been examined by Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) .
3 The manner in which the results of evaluation studies are presented has a considerable effect on their impact .
4 The World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborative studies in the early 1970s and , later , the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) also widely documented that , in developing countries , too , maternal age has a considerable effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and the age of five years .
5 The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table .
6 RECENT observations suggest that the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 has had a considerable effect on ozone concentrations in the tropical stratosphere ( refs 1 , 2 , and J. W. Waters , personal communication ) .
7 They have clearly had a considerable effect on the pedestrian accident record .
8 The exact numbers of animals caught in nets are unknown , but available statistics show incidental captures to be widespread throughout the region , and these mortalities may have a considerable effect on local populations .
9 That will have a considerable effect .
10 For countries , like the UK , which rely heavily on imported raw materials and foodstuffs , a rise in the price of imports may have a considerable effect on the domestic inflation rate .
11 How such choices are resolved may have a considerable effect on the efficiency of the method .
12 The way we handle feelings about illnesses , we now know , will have a considerable effect on the capacity to recover from them .
13 Apart from the lithological details of the rock , the height of the cliff must have a considerable effect on the rate at which it weathers back .
14 Precipitation is conducted to the nearest water course much more quickly in an urban area than it is in a natural drainage basin , so the building of a new town or the extension of an existing town can have a considerable effect on the rate at which the water level of a river rises after a storm .
15 Small percentage changes in consumption can have a considerable effect on the equilibrium level of national income and therefore on employment .
16 As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us .
17 Gatting 's altercation with Shakoor Rana was to have a considerable effect on the West Indies Test rubber .
18 As in many other areas of rural life , events during and immediately after the First World War were to have a considerable effect upon the structure of rural housing .
19 The increase in the extent of the behaviour during the 1970s had a considerable effect on medical teams , psychiatrists , social workers , and general practitioners .
20 The market survey and business-development consultancy undertaken by Price Waterhouse had a considerable effect on BGS as a whole , and has enabled BGS marketing arrangements to be appropriately formalised .
21 The coming of the railways had a considerable effect upon the prosperity of canal companies but was not the sole cause of their decline .
22 What happened before MacQuillan came had a considerable effect on what he did later .
23 The large amounts of money involved mean that , though small , the percentage shifts have a considerable effect on resources received by each region .
24 Climate and diet have a considerable effect upon maturation , as for example the work of Weiner & Thambipillai ( 1952 ) on West Africa children suggests , and therefore any estimates of life-expectancy in earlier populations must be accepted with reserve .
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