Example sentences of "it had the [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It had the desired effect — the gunman tumbled over the top of the fence , landing painfully on his back . |
| 3 | It had the desired effect . |
| 4 | It had the desired effect . |
| 5 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 6 | It had the desired effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But whatever it was , it had the same effect . |
| 9 | It had the same effect too in China . |
| 10 | Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister . |
| 11 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 12 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect . |
| 14 | He wanted to cheer Constance up but it had the opposite effect . |
| 15 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 16 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 17 | Paradoxically , it had the opposite effect on Grant . |
| 18 | When fasting , for example , was first used by Gandhi as a form of satyāgraha in a dispute between textile mill-owners and labourers in Ahmedabad the intention was to rally the flagging spirit and resolve of the workers , but it had the added effect of forcing the mill owners into negotiation . |