Example sentences of "do [vb infin] a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the fact that the matter had come to such a head did have a sobering effect on them both . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But they did have a drastic effect . |
| 4 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 5 | Public exposure on television and the continual attention of the rest of the media did have a marked effect on Hannah Hauxwell . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Young white females are by far the most common users of crisis and suicide prevention facilities , and so these findings support the possibility that crisis centres do have a preventive effect . |
| 8 | But , because of the statistical properties of the normal curve of distribution , they do have a large effect at the extremes . |
| 9 | We know they exist , however , because they do have a measurable effect : they give rise to forces between matter particles . |
| 10 | Much of this work does show a definite effect : though there are still many questions about the precise links between early events and subsequent outcomes in various species , belief in the compelling nature of early experience is powerfully reinforced by this body of findings . |
| 11 | Apart from caffeine ( which does have a small effect in speeding up the metabolism ) no substance we eat or drink was proved by scientific methods to have any realistic effect in speeding away our surplus fat . |
| 12 | But even if there is not this causal connection , the fantasy does have a causal effect . |
| 13 | There is little doubt that a response rate of 63% for the fluticasone group does represent a therapeutic effect . |