The phrase 'provoke an effect' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something causes a reaction of some kind. For example: The sudden loud noise provoked an effect of shock and surprise.
And was it put in to shock or provoke an effect?
Although the frequency of high hourly O(3) concentrations did not consistently increase with elevation, O(3) exposures in the park may have been high enough to provoke an effect that may have been enhanced by vegetation sensitivities that differed as a function of altitude.
Irregular shapes in varying degrees of transparency provoke an effect that is strongly biological.
Indications exist that a certain exposure duration might be necessary to provoke an effect [ 11].
Many physicians acknowledged that they regularly ordered tests with the intention to provoke an effect on their patients.
ECx Mix and ECx i are the concentrations of the mixture and the i-th single substance concentrations, respectively, both provoking an effect of x%.
Batsheva's choreographies never try to depict a real situation, but instead aim to provoke an interior effect.
I like her and didn't want to detach too soon so I attempted to explain how too much "allegria", can provoke an undesired effect, that of feeling misunderstood and further alone.
However, there are no indications that RF can interfere with the estrogenic activity of female rats (Yamashita et al., 2010) to provoke an indirect effect on thyroid function.
The literature suggests that SIRT1 is a NAD+-dependent deacetylase, which has the ability to regulate a number of processes by deacetylating key proteins such as p53 (at K382), Foxo, Ku70 and provoke an inhibitory effect on apoptosis.
Although hTERTC27 expression could only be detected in the injected tumors, reduced tumor growth was observed in the injected tumor as well as the uninjected tumors, demonstrating that the vector cocktail could provoke an antitumor effect on distant, metastasized tumors.
