Example sentences of "had [det] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not flatter himself that he might have had that effect on her , but he did wonder what course their liaison would take . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'll tell you now , there are only three additives that could have had that effect on the car 's performance , and I 'll write them down for you now . ’ |
| 3 | In addition , whether or not one had attended a catholic school may have had little effect on sexual values or mass attendance but it did increase catholic activism and racial tolerance ( Greeley , McCready , and McCourt 1976 ) . |
| 4 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 5 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 6 | Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates . |
| 7 | These moves have had little effect on psychology 's general tendency to represent sexuality simply as heterosexuality . |
| 8 | The major reason given for the closure of railway lines and stations was that the 1950s modernization plan for the railways had had little effect on stemming an ever-rising deficit in running costs . |
| 9 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 10 | It appears that the Gulf War has had little effect on exports to this area , although it should be added that much of the conflict post dated the period covered by the survey . |
| 11 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 12 | Although the committee accepts the DTp 's contention that individual pollution accidents had hitherto had little effect , it believes that the rise in incidents in the crowded North Sea and English Channel is a serious " cause for concern " . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , a price increase of 30 per cent has had little effect on consumption . |
| 14 | ‘ The sales increase evident from the New Year has had little effect on margins and the key to the future is purchaser confidence . ’ |
| 15 | One major reason for this is an unfractured insistence on known traditions that have existed for centuries ; the absence of revolutions and occupying armies in Britain and therefore the lack of radical new beginnings as in Germany and Central Europe after World War I has had this effect . |
| 16 | The differential fee for night visits is intended to discourage general practitioners from using deputising services , but it is not known whether it has had this effect . |
| 17 | Yet in the first half of the eighteenth century population growth was too slow to have had this effect . |
| 18 | Heaven knew she was no stranger to men 's admiring glances , but they 'd never had this effect on her before — nor anything remotely like it ! |
| 19 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 20 | This argument seems to have had some effect , for while the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked to look more closely at the dollar costs of overseas forces , the Defence Ministry 's view that no further cuts in forces should be sought was accepted . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it seems to have had some effect on Sandys . |
| 22 | The self-discipline and lessened dependence on each other that Helen had hoped for had had some effect on Edward , as his first letter to Helen from his Oxford lodgings shows : |
| 23 | Recent legislation has had some effect in keeping rents within reasonable bounds , and in providing security of tenure for tenants against landlords ; and under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 many residential tenants now have a right of first refusal where the landlord proposes to dispose of his interest in the property . |
| 24 | Already , he has had some effect in cooling cultural animosities , in ‘ bringing the ghetto to the suburb and the suburb to the ghetto ’ . |
| 25 | Stirling sent a blistering series of signals to both the Eighth Army and MEHQ which seem to have had some effect . |
| 26 | Switchboard as an organization has probably had some effect on more of us , as callers and as volunteers , than any other single campaign or group has done in the recent history of lesbian and gay rights in this country . |
| 27 | Organised pressure from women within the parties has had some effect . |
| 28 | This century has seen a remarkably rapid secularization of British society ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) which has had some effect upon the decline in voluntary action . |
| 29 | The project has undoubtedly had some effect on the organisation and running of the libraries themselves . |
| 30 | Perhaps they have had some effect , by importing into English prisons a tradition of collective action by prisoners in pursuit of demands made of the prison authorities . |