Example sentences of "has a [adj] influence " in BNC.

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1 This is important because public opinion has a crucial influence on the climate in which industrial relations is conducted .
2 Pauline Bishop 's beautiful house by the Lake District has a cosmopolitan influence inspired by her travels around the world .
3 Categorising types of writing is not easy , but there is good evidence to suggest that the type of writing attempted has a strong influence on the outcome .
4 Children think in black and white , good and bad , and the comic has a powerful influence on shaping attitudes .
5 Each body has a powerful influence in Parliament and is instrumental in introducing legislation into Parliament and in modifying each government 's proposals on local government legislation .
6 Bryant and Bradley conclude that a child 's awareness of the sounds in words , revealed by their ability to detect rhyme and alliteration , ‘ has a powerful influence on their eventual success in learning to read and spell ’ .
7 Symbolism has a powerful influence on COMMITMENT and BEHAVIOUR .
8 The Swedish influence has continued up to the present day , where the Faunus Kennel has a great influence on the breeding stock in Norway .
9 Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true .
10 The volume of the ocean basins has fluctuated over time and this has a great influence over virtually every other life-generating and sustaining force ever discovered .
11 It is widely believed in Italy that the moon has a great influence on human beings and on nature .
12 Magnetic saturation has a great influence on the torque produced by a stepping motor ( Fig.3.1 ) and its effects can be included in pull-out torque calculations ( Acarnley and Hughes , 1981 ) .
13 In operational day-to-day terms the Bank of England has a major influence on three major markets , the sterling money market , the foreign exchange market , and the gilt-edged market .
14 In some of these cases the company may be the market leader , that is to say it has the largest single share of the market and because of this has a major influence on market prices and product design .
15 However , few would argue that this has a determining influence on the size of the public sector or that such a diversity of actors can he described as a single ‘ elite ’ Rather , authors such as the US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental relations and Rose and Peters in Britain tend to stress the plurality of causes of growth in public expenditure .
16 They have been able to prove without doubt that aroma has a profound influence on mind and body .
17 As we have seen , culture permeates the whole of life and has a profound influence on the meaning which people attach to the messages they hear , the way they make decisions and the social and institutional structures which they build around their creeds and values .
18 As well as creating major development opportunities for team members this shift has a profound influence on managerial work .
19 As noted above , the mother 's education has a profound influence on the probability that her children will survive early childhood , yet her opportunities to obtain schooling are compromised by early marriage and the conventions that prescribe it .
20 The molar mass distribution ( MMD ) of a polymer sample has a significant influence on its properties and a knowledge of the shape of this distribution is fundamental to the full characterization of a polymer .
21 At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence .
22 ‘ Romance has a bad influence on reality , ’ Clare said .
23 If circumambulation is performed in the opposite direction it is called ‘ Apradakshina ’ and has a malign influence resulting in misfortune or death .
24 I feel erm personally when I was younger that I was taught about love long before I feel in love sort of idea you know comics , the old movies , gave us expectations about what love was all about and I felt that had a , has a big influence in how yeah , when you grow up you feel , you meet this man and
25 As a consequence , the volume of bank deposits has a minor influence on the general price level and total expenditure .
26 The type of packaging has a considerable influence on the way a product is used .
27 The prosecutor 's pretrial dossier , which contains a substantial input by the police , has a considerable influence on the outcome of the case since the judge works from it at the trial in developing the case and examining witnesses and accused alike .
28 First , at the θ = 0° position the motional voltage has a considerable influence on the chopping behaviour , as shown by the differences in the results for the motor stationary and operating at 1 000 steps per second .
29 In the general case manufacturing costs are high compared with those of other functions so the function has a massive influence on company productivity .
30 One point , though , that is clearly understood is that legal measures alone are not sufficiently effective and must be supplemented by infrastructural measures , which have the advantage that the spatial layout of an area has a direct influence on the behaviour of road users .
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