Example sentences of "have a [adj] influence " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious that wound dressings have a major influence on the micro-environment of the wound . |
| 2 | And , like Eyuphuro , the Kafala Brothers have a cosmopolitan influence , blending traditional and urban styles and reflecting Congolese , Zairean , Brazilian and Cuban rhythms in a combination of vocals , flute and guitar . |
| 3 | And , like Eyuphuro , the Kafala Brothers have a cosmopolitan influence , blending traditional and urban styles and reflecting Congolese , Zairean , Brazilian and Cuban rhythms in a combination of vocals , flute and guitar . |
| 4 | These trends are potentially very important because the number of people in a household and the composition of the households — in terms of such characteristics as sex , age and relationships to each other — both have a strong influence on the preferred type and location of housing accommodation . |
| 5 | Nevertheless South Africa 's 650,000 Muslims have a strong influence , mainly through their militant youth movements . |
| 6 | The results of this study show that the amount of phospholipids and their molecular species in bile have a decisive influence on cholesterol carriers , on the distribution of cholesterol among the carriers and on the nucleation time of bile . |
| 7 | Such a council would benefit social work like nothing else : it is important that the public ( and the press ) knows there is regulatory control over a group of people who ( quite rightly ) hold substantial powers over some groups and who have a great influence over others . |
| 8 | It is generally assumed that international forces have a great influence on the UK so that it is the international economy which determines the character of the crossroads now facing the UK . |
| 9 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 10 | Past changes in both relative equity and gilt prices have a negative influence on future expectations although interest differentials ( RATE ) are expected to persist for some time . |
| 11 | A clear correlation between the pathological staging of oesophageal tumours and prognosis has been reported — infiltration through the muscular wall and regional lymph node metastases , in particular , have a negative influence on survival rates . |
| 12 | The middle notes last a little longer ( rose , neroli ) ; and the base notes have a profound influence on the blend . |
| 13 | Those children who do stay in school , but who feel they are failing , invariably have a disruptive influence . |
| 14 | Although the sea is a much more stable environment than the air and the habitat enjoyed by land animals , fluctuations occur which have a special influence on the shore , where the extremes are greater , and cold air temperatures can influence the fauna in winter , and the concentrated rays of the sun can make some pools uninhabitable during the summer . |
| 15 | It would be unfair not to recall that they did , in the long term , have a formative influence on the social history of the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | How does the gospel relate to those areas with which the culture is least able to cope , or which have a dehumanising influence ? |
| 17 | Studies that have examined parental influences on children 's eating patterns have shown that parents have a significant influence . |
| 18 | Furthermore , three other significant reports ( Hargreaves 1984 , Thomas 1985 and Mortimore 1988 ) continue to present evidence that schools have a significant influence on pupil behaviour . |
| 19 | Other demographic factors which have a considerable influence on household formation are less easy to predict — one is marriage : for example , the 1978-based official population projections expected two-thirds more married men in the 20–24 age band than were actually found in 1985 ( Population Projections 1978–2018. 1980 ; Sparks , 1986 , p. 24 ) . |
| 20 | Although the preparasitic larval requirements of the horse strongyles are similar to those of the trichostrongyles of ruminants , adult horses , unlike cattle , may carry substantial worm burdens and therefore have a considerable influence on the epidemiology of infection . |
| 21 | Governments have a direct influence over the process of national income determination through their control over the flows of public expenditure G and taxation T . |
| 22 | With such a varied and profound background in such sensitive areas , his views can only be described as useful to many of us , and of intense interest to all of us , as we struggle to keep abreast of complex daily developments which appear remote , but frequently have a direct influence on our daily lives . |
| 23 | These cognitive factors have a direct influence on the query formulation and thus need to be investigated as an integral part of the information-seeking process . |
| 24 | It was this aspect which engaged the attention of Michels ( 1911 ) , in his study of socialist parties ( and especially the German Social Democratic Party ) , in which he argued that the party becomes personified in the full-time paid officials — the bureaucracy and parliamentary leaders — whose interests may diverge from those of the mass membership and still more from the wider group which the party claims to represent , and who have an overwhelming influence upon party policy . |
| 25 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 26 | There are some churches in the area ; some are of hall church pattern , others have an English influence from commercial contacts with seafaring traders . |
| 27 | They are not so much status-based as functional , but they have an all-pervasive influence on the individual 's life far beyond the narrow functions which are their specific object . |
| 28 | Although some bands achieve success without considering their clothes and haircuts , these aesthetic qualities have an important influence over a band 's commercial potential . |
| 29 | In addition to , and apart from , susceptibilities built into some varieties of rose ( as a result of breeding for colour , habit , scent or whatever at the expense of vigour and resistance ) , growing conditions , cultivation and weather all have an important influence on the ability of the plants to withstand and ward off fungal attack . |
| 30 | There is evidence that higher levels within organisations have an important influence on workplace personnel and industrial relations practices . |