Example sentences of "it has a [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 You have to kick out the yaw damper and put in some twinky footwork on the rudders , but it has a salutary effect .
2 then I mean it , it has a knock-on effect .
3 But no well sometimes it has a reverse effect on people .
4 Because it affects primarily younger people , and in particular young women , it has a powerful effect upon expectation of life .
5 But it has a strange effect on the tutor .
6 An act of ill-treatment may be significant because it has a serious effect upon the child .
7 Not feeding for a couple of days before hand clears their systems and helps to make sure your fish eat the remedy , so that it has a greater effect and avoids the problem of rotting herbs polluting the water .
8 Information is relevant when it has a significant effect on our assumptions : in other words , when it will allow us to alter our knowledge structures to give us a more accurate representation of the world .
9 Its power is formidable and it has a direct effect on the fertility of crops and mankind — witness statues of jaguars coupling with women as a means of ensuring the tribe 's continuity .
10 It has a direct effect not only on investment decisions , but also on the market for corporate control and the market for managers .
11 It has a double effect : it reduces the fear in the cat itself and enables it to stay where it is , rather than move off into the distance ; it also prevents any counter-staring by the cat , which would spell defiance and possibly provoke further hostility .
12 It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more .
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