Example sentences of "been influenced by the " in BNC.

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1 Mr Milmo said that it was ‘ utterly and completely false ’ to suggest that Mr Clay had been influenced by the prospect of some plum job when he retired .
2 She identifies advertising as one of the main forms of these , and feels that the pressure is intensified by the attitudes of friends and family who have been influenced by the media and make it extremely difficult for girls to remain impervious to the images of beauty which surround them : on TV , in films , magazines and newspapers .
3 Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion .
4 Mr Des Wilson , the Liberal Democrat campaign manager , played down the racial element in the vote that defeated Mr Taylor , saying : ‘ We won that seat on the merits of our campaign , not because a few votes for the Tory may have been influenced by the colour of their candidate 's skin . ’
5 ‘ Our choice has been influenced by the fact that there is no national museum in the North East , ’ said Dr Alan Borg , museum director-general .
6 However , such works do not merely show the dominant culture being resisted and subverted by popular culture ; in their form , they themselves have been influenced by the culture which they depict .
7 This representation of Mithra appears to have been derived from Egyptian art , and it has been suggested that it may have been influenced by the bandages of mummified corpses .
8 We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves .
9 One of the necklaces — a collar of Byzantine magnificence — had clearly been influenced by the classical revivalist designs of Fortunato Castellani , and his pupil Giuliano , whom his great-grandfather had once tried to woo into working for him in London .
10 The shape and direction of the valleys have been influenced by the location of the more easily eroded volcanic material .
11 Unfortunately , a lot of contemporary architects have been influenced by the Gropius school of thought which maintains that architects should allow a building to be what it wants to be , rather than imposing any character or theme upon it .
12 But has the heart of British industry been influenced by the hype and pressure to change ?
13 Within the Church of England this has been influenced by the parish structure inherited from rural society with a feudal structure .
14 Rimmel 's Island Paradise range of hot colours has been influenced by the tropics and madi-gras .
15 These dramatic styles have been influenced by the look of the sixties .
16 In this respect , I have been influenced by the success of Proposition 13 enacted in California in 1978 , which necessitated a sharp reduction in property taxes .
17 And of course , being a composer , I think it would be very hard not to have been influenced by The Beatles . ’
18 To some extent this has been influenced by the economic structure and market factors in the particular country or industry concerned .
19 The porch was commissioned by Bishop John Jewel , and its design may have been influenced by the neo-classical architecture to which Jewel had been exposed during his years of exile in Mary 's reign .
20 He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee .
21 The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way .
22 In the Felixstowe Justices case the court seems to have been influenced by the fact that the applicant was a journalist with a serious purpose .
23 The universities of Europe which have not been influenced by the analytical tradition … have by no means represented any unitary tradition .
24 Other contributors , like Alison Assiter , Joanna Hodge and Margaret Whitford , have been influenced by the non-analytic traditions of Continental Europe .
25 There has been a national style revolution in Britain which has influenced and been influenced by the youth culture of football spectatorship .
26 Other sectors such as construction and trading houses have had different spurs to go abroad , but they too have been influenced by the earlier investors .
27 Judge Schucking may have been influenced by the fact that the Convention in question was the General Act of Berlin , which had been concluded by the Powers to settle issues of colonial rule in Africa , and thereby to lessen friction between them .
28 Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines .
29 These young men represented a different kind of leader from those we have so far considered ; the Burma from which they sprang had been influenced by the West far less than India , and only a tiny middle class had assimilated Western education .
30 As the previous section indicated , most contemporary theories of stratification have been influenced by the pioneering work of Marx or Weber .
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