Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] influence on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be said that he provided a major influence on inspiration in the development of the Division 's work in this area . |
| 2 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 3 | This fate might be waived if he is considered a good influence on the other dealers . |
| 4 | This is important because public opinion has a crucial influence on the climate in which industrial relations is conducted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Children think in black and white , good and bad , and the comic has a powerful influence on shaping attitudes . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Symbolism has a powerful influence on COMMITMENT and BEHAVIOUR . |
| 9 | The Swedish influence has continued up to the present day , where the Faunus Kennel has a great influence on the breeding stock in Norway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ Romance has a bad influence on reality , ’ Clare said . |
| 22 | As a consequence , the volume of bank deposits has a minor influence on the general price level and total expenditure . |
| 23 | The type of packaging has a considerable influence on the way a product is used . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the general case manufacturing costs are high compared with those of other functions so the function has a massive influence on company productivity . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During a " transitional period " , he maintained , " four-power rights and responsibility and the presence in Germany of troops from the allied powers will exert a stabilizing influence on the whole process of building German unity " . |
| 29 | These guidelines are sensible and will undoubtedly exert a beneficial influence on patient care . |
| 30 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |