Example sentences of "[vb past] have [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun came to have an extraordinary effect on me . |
| 2 | In summary , acute cigarette smoking caused a significant fall in Vg but seemed to have no significant effect upon transpyloric fluid shifts . |
| 3 | A spot of the iced liquid seemed to have a calming effect on my larynx . |
| 4 | The assumed humility seemed to have a soothing effect upon Major Tzann . |
| 5 | The stern words and punishment seemed to have the desired effect . |
| 6 | ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 7 | What happened before MacQuillan came had a considerable effect on what he did later . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The creation of the Regional Fund in March 1975 failed to have a dramatic effect . |
| 11 | In the late 1960s , Ceauşescu himself had called for a strengthening of the traditional family , but when that failed to have the desired effect of boosting the birth-rate , the regime reversed its direction from promoting old-fashioned morality as a stimulus to conception . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 15 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 16 | Public exposure on television and the continual attention of the rest of the media did have a marked effect on Hannah Hauxwell . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Matza ( 1969 ) was particularly influential in proposing that the correctionalist stance had had a distorting effect in criminology , and in advocating an alternative . |
| 22 | Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The imprisonment of the appellant had had a depressing effect on the victim of the indecent assault . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In Mr Bullins 's opinion , the war had had a regrettable effect upon Oxford , and even upon Magdalen . |
| 27 | Paul Fisher exclaimed as she went quickly past him , but his ‘ wow ’ meant nothing to her other than that , unfortunately , his carpeting of a week last Friday had had no lasting effect . |
| 28 | It was understandable that branch members should be reluctant to risk a fall in recruitment through another increase in fees : yet the rises of 1956 had had no discernible effect . |
| 29 | Instead of the sunset raging a fire in them as Fernando had obviously intended , it had had the reverse effect — doused away a good deal of bitterness and left them with a certain sadness . |
| 30 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |