Example sentences of "[art] effect of [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology .
2 Third , other places which feel the effect of soil erosion downstream in the form of deposition and floods must also be part of the place-based analytical concern for soil erosion for two reasons .
3 Stanley Fox and Margaret Rostker of Oklahoma State University investigated the effect of tail loss on the social status of a desert lizard , Uta stansburiana , by observing changes in dominance which followed tail-shedding .
4 The effect of mesalazine treatment on renal function has been a particular concern as mesalazine has structural similarities to aspirin and phenacetin , both of which have been implicated in analgesic nephropathy .
5 Early research by Katz and Kahn ( reported in 1951 ) into the effect of leadership style on productivity suggested that there were three aspects of leader behaviour which affected productivity :
6 IBM files , on the other hand , yielded retrieval times of 75 — 95 ms and the effect of bucket capacity was small .
7 Of these , the slowest moving one corresponds to the covalent DNA / protein adduct , as evident from its position in the gel ( compare lanes 1 and 2 , which again display the product of the reaction illustrated in Figure 5 ) and also by the effect of sinefungin addition ( compare lanes 3 and 4 ) .
8 To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will undertake an environmental assessment of the effect of sand extraction at Druridge bay , Northumberland .
9 The effect of cultivation technique on blackgrass .
10 Several studies have reported a positive association with ischaemic heart disease , but after correction for the effect of cholesterol serum triglyceride does not appear to be an independent risk factor ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) .
11 Finally , none of the elemental concentrations in healthy subjects were different from those in the group with peptic ulcer disease , so the effect of zinc supplementation , which facilitates the healing of gastric ulcers , may not be due to the correction of cellular depletion , but rather a luminal or pharmacological effect .
12 Nevertheless , in their analysis of the effect of government policy on economic performance , market economists have learned far less than Keynesian economists from the accumulated evidence of the past hundred years .
13 This involved a wholly new emphasis upon the performance of the economy as a whole and an estimate of the effect of government policy upon it .
14 The effect of day length on behaviour is mediated hormonally ; the birds are prepared to migrate in the autumn by declining production of sex hormones at the end of the breeding season ; they do not migrate if injected with sex hormones .
15 In trying to determine the effect of , say , a new teaching style on academic attainment , factors extraneous to this relationship but which might have a bearing on attainment , need to be excluded or controlled in some fashion in order to assess the effect of teaching style .
16 The effect of computer mapping techniques on traditional cartography has already been considerable .
17 The effect of hit rate
18 The effect of hit rate depends also on the pattern of hits .
19 Elsewhere the effect of wave activity may be particularly intensely experienced by one size fraction which is either totally removed or greatly increased in proportion .
20 The effect of sea water on a basaltic magma is sometimes clearly displayed in places like Hawaii if there is a long active fissure , extending from inland towards the coast .
21 Table II shows the unadjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the effect of waist-hip ratio , body mass index , age , regularity and length of cycle , smoking , parity , and reason for artificial insemination on probability of conception per cycle .
22 The order in which the techniques were presented to the subjects was varied , in a further attempt to reduce the effect of system unfamiliarity .
23 Run times will give an indication that reorganization is due ; access data will allow more efficient processing ; service times will indicate the effect of user demand or the need for file reorganization ; a log of the number of sequential processing runs required may point to the use of ancillary files or a different file organization technique .
24 By altering average road speeds in the model , to reflect the effect of road network improvements , changes in the transport and total distribution costs can be observed .
25 So the reading of a poem by Wordsworth , for example , could raise questions concerning the differences between poetic and everyday language , the nature of Cumbrian place names and topographical terms , the effect of word order alterations , changes in vocabulary during the past hundred and fifty years , and so on .
26 The establishment by the government of the Nitrate Sensitive Areas ( NSA ) scheme provides another opportunity for studying the effect of land use change .
27 This project is for a one year study into pay determination processes in the UK in manufacturing industry , and in particular to examine the effect of bargaining structure and how this may have changed in the period 1979-1985 .
28 Thus , the effect of birth order on child survival also resembles the probable effect of family size .
29 Indeed , it is worth remembering that the effect of birth order may vary with maternal age .
30 The effect of birth interval upon child mortality appears to vary somewhat with level of mortality , although no pattern is clearly evident .
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