Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do think the artificial division of people into age groups has a damaging effect on society . |
| 2 | But the look in his eyes had a peculiar effect on me . |
| 3 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 4 | There was no denying his words had a soothing effect , but she did n't want to be soothed , she wanted him to accept her version of events . |
| 5 | This focus on kinship had an influence on both Marx and Engels which culminated in their enthusiasm for Lewis Henry Morgan whose two principal books had a decisive effect on their later work . |
| 6 | These terrible persecutions had a devastating effect on the rug industry , because many of the most skilful and inventive weavers were killed or forced to flee . |
| 7 | This , however , proved to be wholly inappropriate for Wellcome 's needs , largely due to the fact that GIS had a big effect on the system response times and that the amount of report formatting which was required proved to be unmanageable for on-line GIS . |
| 8 | The specialization of functions has a dispersive effect and a primary function of government becomes that of securing co-ordination amongst the parts . |
| 9 | At one level , the scale of central intervention in local authorities can be measured ; between 1979 and 1988 some fifty Bills having a direct effect on local government were laid before Parliament . |
| 10 | Campaigns of terrorist violence from the anti-democratic right and from Basque separatists had a destabilizing effect , while elements in the military remained strongly attached to Franco 's authoritarian vision . |
| 11 | It soon became evident that the thiazides had an antihypertensive effect of their own and that they augmented the effect of most other antihypertensive drugs . |
| 12 | All major studies agree that the parental marriage and relationships between child and parents have an immense effect on the sexual and marital relationships of the next generation . |
| 13 | Corticosteroids have a deleterious effect on bone density that can be reduced by concurrent treatment with HRT . |
| 14 | While corticosteroids have an adverse effect on bone mass , this may be partly counterbalanced by improvement in the inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 15 | Hon. Members have expressed deep concern about the plight of the sheep farmer , especially the hill farmer , on whom milk quotas have a direct effect . |
| 16 | All three elements have a significant effect upon the overall efficiency of any maintenance operation . |
| 17 | However , cold tea , and emptying the teapot around the plants has a tremendous effect ; my camellia has glossy new leaves and two new flowers , and a tiny pieris is also pushing its red bracts through . |
| 18 | The librarian 's choice of booksellers has an important effect upon the selection of material as well as upon the speed and efficiency of acquisition . |
| 19 | As for Miss Kenton , I seem to remember the mounting tension of those days having a noticeable effect upon her . |
| 20 | ROBERT OWEN was the most experimental industrialist of his time and his humanitarian and philosophical ideas had a profound effect upon later generations . |
| 21 | With the data on pay per hour collected for 26-year-olds in 1972 and 32-year-olds in 1978 , we asked whether male and female rates of pay were affected to a similar degree by length of employment experience , and whether domestic responsibilities have a direct effect on pay . |
| 22 | The prospect of heavy damages has a chilling effect on freedom of speech , and the blank cheque which juries are allowed at present to write does not constitute the sort of precise and predictable rule which the Convention requires . |
| 23 | But if winding up is foreseeable when shares are issued , the limitation of rights has a commercial effect . |
| 24 | The extreme oceanicity of the climate of the Western Isles has a profound effect on vegetation , so that montane plants grow at much lower altitudes than in more continental areas . |
| 25 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 26 | but you 're , you 're been described as a , as a , as likely in the ordinary course of things to have a benign effect would it ? |
| 27 | Evidence suggests the changes have a minimal effect and in some cases might even cause more damage , the report says . |
| 28 | Water conditions have an important effect on their performance as do the correct functioning of water softeners if fitted . |
| 29 | Brooke-Rose follows structuralists and post-structuralists in their belief that language is the only tool we have at our disposal for apprehending reality , and that linguistic structures have a formative effect on the mind . |
| 30 | The sources of this species of pragmatic inference can be shown to lie outside the organization of language , in some general principles for cooperative interaction , and yet these principles have a pervasive effect upon the structure of language . |