Example sentences of "a dramatic effect on " in BNC.

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1 All this had a dramatic effect on station catering 's turnover , up from £33.1 million in 1978 to £62.8million seven years later .
2 Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize .
3 This can have a dramatic effect on margins .
4 Successful efforts to rescue the ghettos in just four cities ( Chicago , New York , Detroit and Newark ) would have a dramatic effect on the numbers at the bottom of the heap .
5 This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme .
6 A serious accident can have a dramatic effect on your family 's finances .
7 This is a serious problem , for defects like these have a dramatic effect on the functioning of an electronic device , and it would be desirable to be able to predict their properties .
8 On the other hand , we might have backed research aimed at understanding why some materials are insulators and why for example , adding small quantities of certain impurities to these materials has a dramatic effect on their conductivity .
9 By the early sixties , however , building projects were becoming larger and more complex and new technology was having a dramatic effect on construction methods .
10 However , very precise adjustments to the diet can have a dramatic effect on helping to control the disease .
11 A DoT expert says : ‘ The breathalyser had a dramatic effect on people 's behaviour but it 's fair to say that people got used to it and began to take various avoiding actions .
12 But it had a dramatic effect on the entertainment giant 's stock .
13 Again , if you are involved in re-scheduling a company 's debt , a news leakage during negotiations can have a dramatic effect on share prices and even precipitate a collapse .
14 Depending on the company , excluding any one or more of these items could have a dramatic effect on the volatility of its results , and so on the element of risk in its PRP scheme .
15 This experience had such a dramatic effect on the Pole that he hanged himself some days later .
16 The number of tadpoles in a particular pond can have a dramatic effect on the food supply .
17 These industries export well over 50 per cent of the output and any exogenous change in foreign exchange rates can have a dramatic effect on costs , relative prices and therefore sales .
18 Reactions vary , and an air cleaner that has a dramatic effect on one person 's health may make no difference to another .
19 The need to compete ( and no longer rely on the taxpayer or a government that just printed money ) had a dramatic effect on industry .
20 This move had a dramatic effect on the income of pensioners in 1948 , but flawed the Beveridge scheme in the long run by ensuring that many pensioners would have to continue resorting to means-tested benefits .
21 This fall in value , plus the scaling down of SERPS , will have a dramatic effect on pensioners ' incomes by the end of the century .
22 Water supply , which produced great reservoirs , gas supply and electricity , paved roads , urban transport , waste disposal and considerable numbers of public buildings and parks , all had a dramatic effect on the landscape and so their omission is serious .
23 Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents .
24 We can see , therefore , by studying estates and their administrative caputs , deliberate acts of estate policy which have always had a dramatic effect on the landscape .
25 There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them .
26 This has a dramatic effect on the health and appearance of the plants .
27 Experience of the complexities of government in a society such as that of the new Soviet Union appears to have had a dramatic effect on his earlier Utopian vision of the conduct of governmental affairs ( Medvedev 1981 , p. 39 ) .
28 This has a dramatic effect on the information management strategy of the organisation .
29 The preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole can be seen once again to have had a dramatic effect on the outcome of this particular question , with over three-quarters of the 55% who answered negatively being sole practitioners .
30 in Sweden , introducing competition 's had a dramatic effect on the state run railway system .
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