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

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1 Subconsciously , she must have sensed the potent effect he could have on her , an instinctive recognition of the dangerous power he would assume if once she had known his touch .
2 Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices .
3 However , undoubtedly the night air would have had a sobering effect , especially as the walk was some 2¾ miles long .
4 These intra-uterine devices would have had a contraceptive effect and were relied on by some women for that purpose .
5 The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country .
6 The removal of a large section of the landed and business sections of the community would have had a devastating effect on the province as a whole , and especially its economy .
7 One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs .
8 You might have thought these further disclosures would have had a powerful effect on me but , of course , I was inured to surprise where this man was concerned .
9 The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat .
10 Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty .
11 With the higher populations of Amerindians in the past , such groups must have had a major effect on the structure of the forest .
12 So important , in fact , that such a cloud would have had a braking effect on the Sun 's spin over aeons of time .
13 The number of sympathisers able to support IRA operations on the Continent is smaller than in Northern Ireland , so the recruitment of a few informers may have had a disproportionate effect .
14 Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index .
15 This says that ‘ greater freedom of communication by those professional advisers to the regulators might have had a significant effect on subsequent action , and hence on the later course of events ’ .
16 When Myra was regressed she was unable to come up with anything which might have had a distressing effect upon her before the incident with her cousin .
17 The Soviet debate of the 1920s was the first in history to face the problems of growth in a conscious manner , and they were not merely theoretical discussions since the results could have had a profound effect upon the actual outcome of events .
18 He also considered that the nature of the terrain in this area may have had a marked effect on forecast wind conditions .
19 Had this proposal been implemented , it would have had a disastrous effect on the morale and effectiveness of L Detachment .
20 The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas .
21 Mr Lynch said that could have had a disastrous effect on the whales , which use their own inbuilt sonar system to navigate .
22 And major social reforms — the establishment of free trade unions or the redistribution of noble land — would have had the same effect .
23 Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land .
24 Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back .
25 The latter , however , may also have had an adverse effect as many housing writers have pointed out .
26 We may accept that male cooperation was needed for fertility to fall , while at the same time arguing that the opinions of wives may also have had an important effect on husbands .
27 I could n't have got the same effect if I 'd fictionalised them . ’
28 Thirdly , more prolonged treatment might have shown a late effect .
29 However that avenue was never explored to its end ; and if it had been , one may doubt whether many readers would have grasped the total effect .
30 It 's improbable that a male college would have achieved a similar effect with men or women .
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