Example sentences of "has [verb] the [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme .
2 As such , I must be one of the few hon. Members who has seen the practical effects of the implementation of legislation such as this , and not simply the ideology behind it .
3 Research has shown the harmful effects of stress on the mother and fetus .
4 There 's been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about ‘ the depressed market ’ , and certainly the fiscal policy of high interest rates has had the short-term effect that was intended .
5 Could it be that Octel 's handsomely presented claim that without lead alkyls the roads of ‘ most of the world would be very empty ’ has had the intended effect on one of our more propaganda resistant MPs ?
6 It obviously has had the opposite effect
7 Compliance with the EEC Directive , following pressure from the United States , has had the opposite effect to that intended ; it has significantly reduced protection in the United Kingdom .
8 However , we can not even be sure that it has got the causal effects absolutely right .
9 It is unclear whether his Lordship still believed that there should be a different standard of review for inferior courts and for other administrative institutions , but more recent authority has interpreted the combined effect of Anisminic and O'Reilly to mean that the same broad standard of review should , in principle , apply to both .
10 I was heartened by this news though Marianne , who has experienced the unpredictable effects of alcohol on the North African male to her cost , was less amused .
11 Hughes has recounted the devastating effect of successive raids on Liverpool and Birkenhead , in which 130 vessels were damaged or sunk and countless warehouses containing sugar , cotton and other vital commodities were destroyed .
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