Example sentences of "[vb past] have a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 2 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 3 | What happened before MacQuillan came had a considerable effect on what he did later . |
| 4 | As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise . |
| 5 | Heading south and with part of it reportedly burning , it threatened to have a devastating effect on the marine environment of the northern Gulf , which was particularly vulnerable as a shallow , largely closed area of water with little natural turbulence or tidal flushing . |
| 6 | The creation of the Regional Fund in March 1975 failed to have a dramatic effect . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 8 | The contributing factor to the abandonment of the parish coffin in the seventeenth century was not the new and innovative trade of funeral furnishing — though that did have a profound effect on coffin types — but pestilence and the plague . |
| 9 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 10 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 11 | Public exposure on television and the continual attention of the rest of the media did have a marked effect on Hannah Hauxwell . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 13 | Arousal in this study appeared to have a beneficial effect on memory for both types of information quite contrary to the predictions of Easterbrook 's hypothesis and to the results of the Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) study . |
| 14 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 15 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 16 | Matza ( 1969 ) was particularly influential in proposing that the correctionalist stance had had a distorting effect in criminology , and in advocating an alternative . |
| 17 | Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new . |
| 18 | Interestingly , a majority of companies both on and off the zones considered that if anything the zones had had a beneficial effect on local business , local economic development , environmental improvements and public- and private-sector investment . |
| 19 | The imprisonment of the appellant had had a depressing effect on the victim of the indecent assault . |
| 20 | The new ethos of the '80s had had a positive effect on the character of the people , just as the ethos of the late ‘ 70s had a severely negative effect . |
| 21 | In Mr Bullins 's opinion , the war had had a regrettable effect upon Oxford , and even upon Magdalen . |
| 22 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |