Example sentences of "had [det] [adj] effect " in BNC.

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1 But panslavism had little practical effect on policy : it was a matter of popular mood rather than of official ideology .
2 This had little practical effect , however , until the 1890s , when public pressure forced the government to set aside areas of forest that could not be sold off to logging companies .
3 General Manager of CDs , Industrial Technology , Harwell said it was ‘ No surprise and had little immediate effect on CFDSs highly focused business activities .
4 The existence of controls on investment in the non-sterling area therefore probably had little restrictive effect [ Blackaby , 1978 ; Tew , 1982 ] .
5 Surprisingly , the scandals had little political effect .
6 As shown by Valerie Fildes , in Breasts , Bottles and Babies ( 1988 ) , during the seventeenth century Puritan theologians in particular devoted sermons and popular tracts to the evils of non-breastfeeding mothers , and they were joined by philosophers and physicians ; but this had little discernible effect on the wealthy .
7 No such confidence existed in Europe , where the new post-liberal conservatism in politics had little positive effect .
8 Mechanisation itself has , apart from the habitat changes it has induced , had little direct effect on birds in Sussex .
9 The first warm weather always had this same effect on him , ; d feeling of elation followed by a bad bout of homesickness .
10 War and cold war had some progressive effects with the colonial empires .
11 The teetotal movement had another important effect : once it took root in America it strengthened the Anglo-American bond .
12 The dialectics of Reformation and Counter-Reformation had another indirect effect in that , during the second half of the sixteenth century , attitudes toward biblical interpretation hardened .
13 This first wave of indigenization had few practical effects , and Nigeria 's many TNCs managed to evade serious loss of control by enlisting members of the local bourgeoisie to ‘ front ’ for them , a universal practice where there are restrictions on foreigners engaging in certain economic activities .
14 Only one feature characterizes a Peleean eruption ; a nuee ardente , or glowing cloud , of the sort that had such lethal effects on St Pierre .
15 Quite clearly , as costs were four times direct revenue , 10 per cent ( for example ) saving in costs had much more effect on the balance than did a potential 20 per cent increase in revenue , so energy was at first concentrated on the cost base .
16 CAP had many positive effects , not least in showing that the Six could work together on a very complicated issue .
17 In one sense international or even civil war had less disturbing effects on central administration , since the' had more clearly defined fronts than those of the Famine .
18 However , Marsilid also had more unwanted effects than its companion drug , and some patients experienced psychotic episodes .
19 But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects .
20 This does n't apply if the ritual is completed , since the circle will have exploded outwards and had more serious effects .
21 The present work show that mutations at other sites but the anticodon loop had more variable effects on the m 1 G37 formation ( Fig. 2A and Table 1 ) .
22 The aggregation of these moves had more profound effects than , arguably , anyone at the time fully envisaged .
23 This had several far-reaching effects .
24 Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) .
25 None of the other variables had any significant effect .
26 In their other experiment neither selective deprivation of Stage 4 or REM over three nights had any measurable effects on performance , and after the subsequent night of total sleep deprivation there was no difference between groups in their degree of impairment .
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