The spoken words had a peculiar effect.
But the phrase "grammar schools" has a peculiar effect on the political classes.
We made it through that first day, though the intensity of it all had a peculiar effect.
But skipping a day has a peculiar effect: these stacks seem far less authoritative all of a sudden — less like the paper and more like plain paper.
Although one never really knows about an actor, one still knows a lot, even too much — and this plethora of knowledge has had a peculiar effect on the reception, and the conception, of movies.
Given the revenge-porn backdrop, it makes vague thematic sense that the women should so recall sisters in looks as in arms, but replacing the amenable Haasan with the brooding, muscular Devgn has a peculiar effect.
"I didn't set out to shock," she writes in the preface, though her diamond-riddled roses and spellbinding blooms-as-brooches (odes to Monsieur Dior's love for gardening) have a peculiar, jaw-dropping effect on people.
We chose the fixed effects model over random effects because each study zone can have a peculiar feature or characteristics that can prevent (e.g. higher productivity) or worsens child nutrition condition and this must be accounted in the analysis.
They have a peculiar fertility.
