Example sentences of "be have a [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | But smaller spills , less obvious but constant , are having a devastating effect on many of the reefs of the Caribbean a. — the Red Sea . |
| 2 | It is already clear that the cuts are having a devastating effect on people needing legal advice . |
| 3 | ‘ It is already clear that — as the Law Society and a wide variety of voluntary groups predicted — the cuts in legal aid eligibility are having a devastating effect on individuals in need of help . |
| 4 | The recent changes in Europe are having a great effect on the practice of law in this country , and the 1992 process will change our economic climate and the type of legal service which clients in this country and abroad will need . |
| 5 | Changing recruitment patterns in the 1990s are having a profound effect upon the market for the Banking Certificate , with numbers falling down from more than 10,000 candidates in 1989 to around 5,000 today . |
| 6 | That the long-term unemployment figures are much lower than they were bears testimony to the fact that many of our pledges and the policies that we have implemented are having a positive effect on the ground in relation to the individuals about whom Opposition Members spoke with such understandable feeling and passion . |
| 7 | The Government 's initiatives on rough sleeping are having a marked effect on the problem in London . |
| 8 | The epidemiological evidence shows that nitrate can not be having a major effect on cancer in the general population in the UK . |
| 9 | The heat seemed to be having a heady effect on her , Lindsey thought faintly . |
| 10 | The suggestion that LDL may be having a primary effect is supported by the finding of premature atherosclerosis in the presence of most primary hyperlipidaemia , in particular familial hypercholesterolaemia , in which elevated LDL levels are characteristically found . |
| 11 | Similarly , the depletion of the ozone layer , also due to human activity , was believed to be having a cooling effect . |
| 12 | The loss of the ozone layer is also believed to be having a cooling effect . |
| 13 | Scientists are concerned that their increasing use may be having a damaging effect on river and animal life , although it is acknowledged that only a small proportion of the phosphate in our rivers and lakes comes from domestic sources . |
| 14 | Alternatively the dominance of one-off dance and rap records in the charts could be having a damaging effect on business as a whole — generally success in the singles chart promotes album sales but dance artists seldom shine in the album format . |
| 15 | This , he said , helped to evoke and release suppressed memories and emotions that were having a detrimental effect on the health of these people . |
| 16 | It would be during this period that those first stirrings of mental activity in the mind of primitive man which were ruthless evolution , were having a profound effect on the development of his mind , long before he was able to give practical effect to them . |
| 17 | Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course . |
| 18 | Decisions taken on these issues were to have a lasting effect on the geographical deployment of full-time staff . |
| 19 | As in many other areas of rural life , events during and immediately after the First World War were to have a considerable effect upon the structure of rural housing . |
| 20 | Yet its timing , duration , scale and outcome were to have a profound effect upon the form that the revolution took . |
| 21 | But the love that surrounds that boy is having a marvellous effect in giving him a life . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of it is having a corrosive effect on our economy . |
| 23 | ‘ Underfunding is having a detrimental effect on the adequacy of policing services , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The present drop in overseas students on top of this is having a devastating effect on the school 's finances . |
| 25 | Jeffrey : For many people involvement in campaigns around AIDS is having a similar effect to involvement in gay liberation campaigns , in that you get a tremendous sense of common feeling , almost a sort of euphoric sense of working together . |
| 26 | The constant trickling from various ‘ water features ’ — intended to drown the sound of the trains in Charing Cross station below — is having a bladder-bursting effect on visitors , so much so that clients have their own water-free waiting area . |
| 27 | ‘ The energy conservation programme is having a definite effect on sales , ’ said Silverlight head . |
| 28 | Much of this is having a deleterious effect on British industry and jobs . |
| 29 | As competent , adult readers we are sometimes aware that something we are reading is having a considerable effect upon us . |
| 30 | The road that they have created I think is having a damaging effect on the team and is making it more difficult for us to get the results . |