Example sentences of "[adj] effect of [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Suppose you actually managed to escape all the harmful effects of tobacco but your child took up smoking because you smoked and he or she went on to develop one of those dreadful ( and often fatal ) illnesses .
2 The sprinkler , invented in the USA in 1881 , was a further safeguard against the dire effects of fire and its introduction into cotton mills produced the water towers which crown the main external staircases of many of the later mills .
3 Just published last year were his evocative chapters called Le Genie du Nord ( Grasset , Paris ) , reflecting his preoccupation with the North , the fields of war , the detrimental effects of nationalism and his hopes for Europe , complemented by La Maye ( Trois Cailloux , Amiens ) , a 500 page semi-autobiography in poetry and prose written in a variety of styles and voices .
4 It may thus be observed that there is a ‘ trade-off between the disciplinary effect of takeovers and their disruptive impact on investment and long-term growth ’ .
5 Schally and colleagues have proposed that the growth inhibitory effect of somatostatin and its long acting analogues may by via a tyrosine phosphatase receptor .
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