Example sentences of "had [adj] influence [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence on perceptions of bias on television or in the press .
2 Pigments and inorganic primers had little influence on the results .
3 It is true also that warfare had little influence on the arts , the most obvious indicator of the ‘ climate of opinion ’ , during the eighteenth century .
4 By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy .
5 His quarrel with Luther meant that he had little influence in Germany , but there was something about his insistence on thrift , application , and hard work for its own sake that struck sympathetic chords in the Zurich temperament .
6 In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste .
7 The construction and development industry is best known for this and there were notable scandals in the 1970s which linked architects ( such as John Poulson ) , who were highly dependent on local authority orders , to key local politicians ( such as T. Dan Smith ) , who had some influence over their allocation .
8 The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect .
9 The Situationist lifestyle ( in so far as it could be imagined ) had some influence on the hippy sub-culture in the late sixties and punk ideology in the seventies in Britain .
10 Now , before we look at Campbell 's teaching more closely , let me mention another thinker who probably had some influence on him .
11 The Factory , which had some influence on Midnight Cowboy , then decided to make their own picture about a male hustler .
12 We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century .
13 Sometimes , though certainly not as a general rule , the family had some influence on what was provided .
14 ABOVE J C Bach ( 1735–82 ) , the youngest son of the great composer , had some influence on Mozart 's musical development .
15 I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English .
16 It even had some influence on paramilitary groups like the Protestant Ulster Defence Association .
17 Aesthetically , Londoners will have to draw what consolation they can from the fact that Nicholas Ridley , the former Environment Secretary and a water-colourist with an eye for broader horizons , had some influence in the siting of the gates .
18 Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks .
19 As a priest in the pastorate of Wainui-a-rua , Keith Elliott had tremendous influence upon Maori people in the Wanganui and Taihape area .
20 Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war .
21 The absence of endowments before the time of the Emperor Constantine inevitably meant that well-to-do Christians had much influence on their local communities , which could be decisive when a new bishop was being chosen .
22 He had much influence on the Beecham team who isolated 6-aminopenicillanic acid .
23 Neither government policy nor social change had much influence on this crime .
24 The Communist Party never had much influence on Tyneside other than among seamen .
25 Both in these positions and as Chairman of the Wellcome Trust for 22 years , he had great influence on the development of medical research during and after the war .
26 The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 .
27 His word was law within the leuga , an area of 1½ miles radius from the abbey gates ; despite the monastic contrast of personal poverty and corporate wealth , the monks had great influence on the economic life of their new town and Sussex estates .
28 He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately .
29 6 Corporate systems must be aligned to support TQM : Two of the great pioneers of total quality management , Edwards Deming and J.H. Juran , whose work had great influence on Japanese companies after the Second World War , discovered that quality problems were usually built into the design of production processes and could not be attributed to the ill-will or incompetence of workers .
30 This book , in a Latin translation , had great influence in Europe .
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