Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adj] effect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need . |
| 2 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 3 | Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates . |
| 4 | It appears that the Gulf War has had little effect on exports to this area , although it should be added that much of the conflict post dated the period covered by the survey . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , a price increase of 30 per cent has had little effect on consumption . |
| 6 | ‘ The sales increase evident from the New Year has had little effect on margins and the key to the future is purchaser confidence . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't believe reunification has had much effect at all . |
| 8 | One major reason for this is an unfractured insistence on known traditions that have existed for centuries ; the absence of revolutions and occupying armies in Britain and therefore the lack of radical new beginnings as in Germany and Central Europe after World War I has had this effect . |
| 9 | The differential fee for night visits is intended to discourage general practitioners from using deputising services , but it is not known whether it has had this effect . |
| 10 | Recent legislation has had some effect in keeping rents within reasonable bounds , and in providing security of tenure for tenants against landlords ; and under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 many residential tenants now have a right of first refusal where the landlord proposes to dispose of his interest in the property . |
| 11 | Already , he has had some effect in cooling cultural animosities , in ‘ bringing the ghetto to the suburb and the suburb to the ghetto ’ . |
| 12 | Organised pressure from women within the parties has had some effect . |
| 13 | This century has seen a remarkably rapid secularization of British society ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) which has had some effect upon the decline in voluntary action . |
| 14 | Blue Velvet has had more effect on me than anything musically — it 's that idea of everything superficially being nice and chummy but underneath there 's something sinister . |
| 15 | Ask the staff if the policy has had any effect on their attitudes to drinking , or on their awareness of their drinking habits . |
| 16 | The Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta , Georgia , is probably pre-eminent in terms of pure research into the organisms responsible for the sexually transmitted diseases , and yet none of this concentrated effort has had any effect on the levels of gonorrhoea or syphilis in America . |
| 17 | Which it never has had any effect on at all . |
| 18 | It is probably in this area that the House of Commons has had most effect in persuading governments to modify their original proposals . |
| 19 | The enlargement of the Football League has had another effect that Chapman was to deplore — the escalation of transfer fees . |