Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the effect " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is strongly recommended that you put an adhesive label on this side of the artwork in the margins and mark it with the title of the project , date etc. and very clearly mark words to the effect of ‘ this side copper track view/this side to UV light ’ or similar . |
| 2 | The driver may be forthcoming that his boss said words to the effect that he knew there was no insurance but the vehicle was the only one available and the journey had to be undertaken . |
| 3 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Two police officers will keep observations for prostitutes and to prove this point their evidence should contain words to the effect that ‘ the accused walked slowly up and down High Street five times stopping and talking to several men . |
| 4 | But I know one in question who said , to hell , or words to the effect ’ — he grinned — ‘ that he could n't gag her if he tried . |
| 5 | Well apparently rumour has it that the doctor at the hospital who dealt with these last cases was saying words to the effect that er Jonathan just put Jonathan in a situation and he 'd keep the hospital in business for evermore . |
| 6 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 7 | Yes I did er I sh I wo n't say the exact words but they were words to the effect that er that I was sorry , that I understood and appreciated that er erm his family would have been terrified by the experience . |
| 8 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 9 | was quoted as saying words to the effect , that we do n't do much talking until the fighting is done and we hope when we , when we are gone we 'll be glad we came . |
| 10 | In the wake of Wang 's going Chapter 11 , a bon mot dropped from Scott McNealy 's lips to the effect that things are so bad in Massachusetts now they do n't even bother to plough Route 128 when it snows . |
| 11 | For example , on 22 September 1939 the Department of Health for Scotland Advisory Committee on Evacuation noted that ‘ the Billeting Appeal Tribunal in Perth had numerous appeals supported by medical certificates to the effect that the health of the householder would be injured by the presence of evacuees in the home ’ . |
| 12 | Kenya Television on April 29 quoted aid workers to the effect that forces loyal to the USC were now firmly in control of the town . |
| 13 | So dramatic were the claims for some of these anti-ageing products that there were rumblings to the effect that such powerful preparations ought to be classified as ‘ drugs ’ . |
| 14 | The output from GIMMS consists of a list of the options specified together with informative messages to the effect that a data file with 42 zones and 2 variables has been created and saved to the file opened on unit 12 . |
| 15 | In editorial and descriptive commentary , there are many comments about chaotic or ‘ lawless ’ spellings ( for example , Sisam , 1915 : xxxvii ) and even editorial judgements to the effect that a given scribe could not have been a native English speaker , so variable is his spelling ( Hall , 1920 II : 637 ) . |
| 16 | Despite our firm statements to the effect that the list was purely illustrative and that there were no doubt omissions , media attention centred on this list to the detriment of the other , more important recommendations in the Report . |
| 17 | By the time Dr Meredith arrived , he had revived considerably and the doctor soon left again making only vague statements to the effect that my father had perhaps been ‘ over-working ’ . |
| 18 | Statements to the effect that , in relation to lesbian and gay rights , there had been no ‘ public work in the civil society ’ were simply mendacious . |
| 19 | ‘ did drive ’ Driving is usually proved by witness statements to the effect that they saw the defendant drive . |
| 20 | On the other hand , recent cases contain statements to the effect that judicial review will be allowed in the face of an alternative remedy ‘ only in exceptional cases ’ . |
| 21 | There were even explicit statements to the effect that science and religion should not be mixed . |
| 22 | Statements to the effect that a particular programme has had an increase in funding do not say anything about the quality of the service offered . |
| 23 | He had become a political exile in France in October 1990 , and had made public statements to the effect that he would not return to Albania until democracy had been restored there [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 24 | He reiterated his previous statements to the effect that " the traditional use of the coca leaf and its legal and beneficial by-products , as well as its social , cultural and religious contexts … should not be confused with the scourge of the illegal consumption of cocaine " . |
| 25 | Despite extensive evidence from numerous independent sources to the effect that there is little to choose between the performance of a well formulated detergent and the invariably more expensive combined products , known as sanitisers , a whole industry has been built around marketing sanitisation . |
| 26 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 27 | This alternative offence can also be proved as at point 5 with the additional observations to the effect ‘ The stationary vehicle had stopped to accord precedence to foot passengers ’ . |
| 28 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 29 | One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them . |
| 30 | Chapter 2 I , which seems to have been composed as an afterthought to the main body of the Gospel with its climax in 20:31 , indicates that there was a tradition doing the rounds in Christian circles to the effect that John would not die : he would be there until the Second Coming of Christ . |