Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] effect [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It also has the undesirable effect of enhancing the horizontal scan line pattern , particularly over low-reflectance areas such as the water of the Gulf of Finland .
2 This has the short-term effect of bringing in foreign currency .
3 Second , it has yet to be shown that the reverse experiment , removing the immediately adjacent areas of the cortex while leaving area 17 intact , has the devastating effects on visual perception that would be expected .
4 Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid .
5 This has the immediate effect of making her look like an extremely expensive deco doll .
6 Dietary fibre , which is calorie-free , has the general effect of adding bulk , slowing down eating and satisfying the appetite in this and many other ways .
7 The existence of this body of appellate decisions in social security matters has the obvious effect of contributing to consistency of decision making not only by adjudication officers in their initial decisions on claims , but also by SSATs .
8 In this way the audit regime has the positive effect of improving professional standards .
9 This is only one of several tactics which has the incidental effect of squeezing the ‘ Mum and Dad ’ agencies .
10 Leaving aside for the time being the question of ‘ hostile intent , ’ it is plain that it is not enough that the defendant deliberately does an act that has the incidental effect of obstructing the police ; he must also have some notion that he is obstructing and causing the police difficulties .
11 To treat women of the eighteenth century narrowly as pioneers or precursors of modern feminism has the unfortunate effect of visiting a new teleology on eighteenth century studies .
12 Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident .
13 one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’
14 While men find sex can be a great relaxant , it often has the opposite effect on women .
15 It has the opposite effect from magnification , which reduces the field of vision .
16 The malodorous slime has the dual effects of choking anyone too near the Troll and also making it extremely hard for an attacker to land a blow .
17 Using the procedures in this way has the dual effect of preparing the case as precisely as possible for the trial judge and of encouraging a settlement by revealing to the parties the exact nature of their dispute .
18 Fog curtails shooting because of the danger but has no other effect on operations .
19 The wasp has no other effect on the environment and the bumble bee is left to busy himself among the plants , pollinating the flowers in a naturally effective way .
20 So far , we have discovered that particular movements are especially distressing while noise has no apparent effect on the birds .
21 The label is readily incorporated into cleavage-stage cells by the endocytic route , is clearly identifiable in living , fixed and sectioned preparations and has no apparent effect on development .
22 This has no detected effect on subsequent development and may be used to facilitate the adhesion of cells in defined orientations ( 12 ) .
23 It has no emotional effect upon the reader because it does n't show how the poet came to these conclusions .
24 Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M.
25 RP thus has no direct effect on the convergence pattern displayed by middle-class speakers : therefore , if we start with the RP norm and derive these speech community patterns from it , we can falsify the situation totally .
26 This indicates that somatostatin — and probably also octreotide — has no direct effect on the gall bladder but exerts its inhibitory action by the myenteric plexus .
27 This has not proved easy and the following trilogy of United States cases give an indication of the development of tests which may be applicable in the United Kingdom ( United States law has no binding effect on the United Kingdom courts but it may be of persuasive authority , particularly in the field of computer technology ) .
28 However , studies have revealed that phosphorylation has no measurable effect on the DNA binding properties of Sp1 , suggesting that its function is to regulate the transcriptional activation potential of this factor ( 4 ; T.Gottlieb and S.Jackson , unpublished data ) .
29 Now , the mere sight of the cake crumbs floating on the tea has no particular effect on him , but suddenly when he actually tastes them he gets a strange feeling of excitement , a feeling almost of elation .
30 Although this has no obvious effect on healthy term infants , it may compromise sick and preterm patients .
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