Example sentences of "it had [art] [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It had a devastating effect on her , ’ said one friend . |
| 4 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
| 5 | It had a pepper-pot effect that did not represent a comprehensive approach to urban regeneration . |
| 6 | It had a sobering effect . |
| 7 | And it had a knock-on effect . |
| 8 | It had a demoralising effect on us , and we wondered how long this could go on . |
| 9 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 10 | It had a cathartic effect upon government and employers and permitted the working classes at least to protect , if not improve , their standard of living . |
| 11 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
| 12 | But it had a dramatic effect on the entertainment giant 's stock . |
| 13 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 14 | But it had a profound effect on the child care service of the time . |
| 15 | It had a profound effect on myself and all ranks who were forced to watch , " |
| 16 | Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life . |
| 17 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 18 | Watching television had a much smaller effect and , like age , it had a positive effect upon images of all the parties and all the leaders . |
| 19 | As it turned out , it blocked just those actions of adrenaline which Ahlquist had grouped with the beta receptors , and it had no appreciable effect on the alpha receptors . |
| 20 | It was disappointing that it had no significant effect on the tachycardia , but this may be helped by more sparing use of hyoscine butylbromide . |
| 21 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 22 | It had the desired effect — the gunman tumbled over the top of the fence , landing painfully on his back . |
| 23 | It had the desired effect . |
| 24 | It had the desired effect . |
| 25 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 26 | It had the desired effect . |
| 27 | During the interval it was a chastened but not dispirited European team which lunched together in the solitude of the team H.Q. We will never learn what was discussed but there is no doubt that it had the desired effect . |
| 28 | But whatever it was , it had the same effect . |
| 29 | It had the same effect too in China . |
| 30 | Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister . |