Example sentences of "of the effects of " in BNC.

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1 Of course , there is a small increase in speed as the climb gets steeper , both because the glider is starting to ascend the arc of a circle and also because of the effects of the wind gradient .
2 This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement .
3 Clinical neuropsychology involves the study of the effects of brain injury on human behaviour .
4 This is because I believe that one of the basic assumptions of functionalism can be successfully illustrated , and alternatives to functionalism can be successfully confronted , by a careful examination of the effects of brain injury on face processing tasks .
5 The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology .
6 Writing in the International Journal of Epidemiology , the researchers said : ‘ It is possible that lung function like height is a marker of the effects of growth and development of childhood environmental factors such as nutrition and infection . ’
7 The transfer of souls in reincarnation would be important for The Waste Land , but in 1915 the ‘ revitalizing of the classics ’ , as Eliot later described one of the effects of anthropology , seems most apparent in ‘ Mr. Apollinax ’ where we are made very aware of the primitive , and particularly sexual aspects of classical mythology .
8 One of the effects of the Thatcher decade has been to redefine the benchmark of divisions .
9 Geeta Amin and I have described some of the effects of reception class in secondary schools as they were in 1974 ( Guardian 15 Aug. 1974 ) :
10 The virtuous and those plagued by dogs ( not mutually exclusive groups ) can always walk off some of the effects of a pudding afterwards .
11 The anonymous authors of the 1986 annual Met internal appraisal , for example , wrote in deeply critical terms of the effects of government economic policy on the inner city , and the consequences for policing .
12 However , there is abundant anecdotal evidence of the effects of chemical pollution on the populations of small cetaceans inhabiting industrialised areas .
13 The distinction between discovery of causes by resolution and demonstration of the effects of certain causes by composition , was coupled with another , that between what is ‘ more known to us ’ and what is ‘ more known to nature ’ .
14 The starting-point must be the empirical evidence of the effects of sexual assaults .
15 But his official estimates of the effects of a 2,500-megaton attack were 36 million deaths on the first day and 72 million by the 60th day , without reckoning on the effects of a breakdown of organized services .
16 It seems clear that one of the effects of this is that more people are fearful both for their own future and for that of the person who has died .
17 One of the effects of this increased need for security has been to strengthen the importance of the big set-piece occasions like rallies where access can be controlled and crowds organised .
18 Of William Buckley , the CIA station chief in Beirut , his captors sent back videotapes as he died , slowly , of the effects of pulmonary oedema and neglect .
19 At first sight they seemed distinct : voting patterns were not related to policy issues ; people spoke of their voting intentions in terms of fraternal solidarities , while they conducted a subtle and nuanced assessment of the effects of government on their own lives and on national prestige .
20 Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing .
21 Today 's reading is another account by John Hersey of the effects of the bomb on Hiroshima .
22 Many more stories could be told of the effects of the bomb — of terrible burns and of people dying slowly from radiation .
23 There is general recognition that , although social workers and their agencies can not combat the structural causes of social problems , their knowledge of the effects of poverty and other disadvantages places them in a unique position to influence social policies ( Wharf , 1985 ; Townsend et al . ,
24 This suggests that economic and political factors are vital in shaping the nature and extent of the effects of changes within these institutions , an argument that will be examined more closely in later chapters .
25 Recognise and talk about the use of word play , eg puns , unconventional spellings etc , and some of the effects of the writer 's choice of words in imaginative uses of English .
26 Talk about some of the effects of sound patterning , eg rhyme , alliteration , and figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personification , in imaginative uses of English .
27 It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context .
28 This result encourages the conclusion that appropriate contextual cues must be present for satisfactory retrieval of the effects of the effects of initial conditioning ; but it also poses a number of further questions .
29 This result encourages the conclusion that appropriate contextual cues must be present for satisfactory retrieval of the effects of the effects of initial conditioning ; but it also poses a number of further questions .
30 There are no published experiments that allow a direct assessment of the effects of interpolating a phase of extinction or reversal between the normal training and test phases of an acquired distinctiveness experiment .
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