Example sentences of "[be] affected by the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is often noted , especially by farriers and vets , that many horses in the same yard have similar temperaments ie. they are affected by the management of the yard .
2 But ineligible recipients , with higher incomes , are affected by the kink in the budget line : the attractiveness of the in-kind transfer is less for them , and so the incentives to consume it illegally ( and the costs of policing such activity ) are reduced .
3 These specialists might be architects , furniture manufacturers , social workers , magazine publishers , domestic equipment manufacturers , shopkeepers — all the people who are affected by the housewife 's day .
4 Firstly , managers involved in R & D investment decisions will be interviewed to seek their views on factors which influence these decisions and whether they are affected by the way this investment is accounted for .
5 Few provides of longstay care for dependent people have provided really high-quality care , and we have to ask ourselves how far our attitudes to dependence in old age are affected by the kind of care that is offered .
6 It will also try to understand how public reactions to hazardous waste regulation are affected by the kind of decision making used in regulation .
7 It would be an even more arduous task to assess how many millions of orphaned children , widowed husbands , parents , relatives and friends are affected by the toll of maternal mortality ; how many parents , grandparents and siblings mourn the death of infants and young children ; and how many bereaved mothers lament the loss of a fetus .
8 We must realise that other children 's values may be different , and that our children are affected by the pressure of their peers and others with whom they come in contact .
9 We know little about the way in which workers ' motivations are affected by the creation of a powerful market test .
10 For example Neu 's ( 1980 ) analysis of final stop deletion suggests that some lexical items are affected by the process more than others .
11 More than thirteen hundred employees are affected by the action .
12 In plant hire , the main profit earner , the larger-scale plant items are successful and profitable , but smaller ones are affected by the decline in the housing market .
13 The table shows how the funding targets of the 14 English regions are affected by the use of the reduced weighting of standardised mortality ratio and the effect that including the socioeconomic variables would have had .
14 Unlike our city cousins we are affected by the weather and the seasons , and have to be governed by them .
15 For one thing , as I can report , having kept an eye on proceedings since they disappeared from the newspapers and TV , all the witnesses are affected by the disease of official language .
16 Researchers also wanted to discover how much viewers ' attitudes are affected by the context in which a sexy scene turns up on the home screen — and the timing .
17 The models describe the way people learn by experience in terms of how they are affected by the sequence of sums of money received as rewards for correct decisions or lost as penalty for errors .
18 What was the nature of Korean society and how had Korea been affected by the experience of having been ruled as an integral part of the Japanese colonial empire for almost half a century before the defeat of Japan in 1945 ?
19 The Government do not seem to realise how severely consumers have been affected by the experience of recession .
20 The second is to analyse the ways in which women 's employment has been affected by the recession in France and Great Britain .
21 But town planner James Asquith , for the Sundial , said the hotel had been affected by the recession .
22 According to Alan Leslie , assistant director of GUARD , business has not been affected by the recession : ‘ We are working on contracts from Shetland to Galloway and the Borders and although business from the construction sector has eased off , we are still successfully tendering for a lot of work in the maintenance and upgrading of sewerage , gas , water and roads facilities . ’
23 Their discoveries have worrying implications for the 600,000 people thought to have been affected by the release of radiation .
24 The reason for that is that the spot market varies with the dollar exchange rate and , for a long time , has been affected by the dumping of coal into Europe — something about which British Coal has complained to the Commission .
25 Happily , the principal Caithness lochs have not been affected by the tree planters , and visiting anglers will find splendid sport on outstanding waters such as Watten , St John 's and Heilen , all readily available at modest cost .
26 Zvi 's own practice had been affected by the strike .
27 How have these concerns been affected by the government 's assumption of control in curriculum matters ?
28 Of the 48 dreams which were judged to have been affected by the stimulus , there were 31 incorporations on the basis of assonance alone — for instance " Gillian " was represented as " Chilean " , " Jenny " as " Jemmy " , and " Mike " as " like " .
29 Unless carefully monitored , stimulation of the brain leaves us with the problem of not knowing the extent of the area that has been affected by the stimulation .
30 Notes 2 and 3 to the interim p&l demonstrate how the profit before tax and earnings per share have been affected by the implementation of FRS 3 .
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