Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had the effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with the stock market crash was that index arbitrage and portfolio insurance had the effect of feeding off each other and driving down share prices . |
| 2 | Consequently , the residence requirement had the effect of excluding from the United Kingdom sea fishing industry the vast majority of Community citizens who were not resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , in dyestuffs the firms did not admit to having formed an agreement , but their behaviour in making parallel price changes had the effect of limiting competition , and consequently enabled the EC to find them guilty of operating a concerted practice for which they were substantially fined . |
| 4 | Darwin 's discoveries on the Beagle voyage had the effect of gradually breaking down his faith in the fixity of species and converting him to a dynamic view of the relationship between living things and their environment . |
| 5 | I said that the payroll levy that the Labour party would introduce would have the effect of being a tax on jobs , in precisely the way that the selective employment tax had the effect of being directly a tax on jobs . |
| 6 | The circumstances of war-time Britain had the effect of giving weight to policy resolutions by the State as to where and how people should live . |