Example sentences of "have a considerable " in BNC.

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1 In any case a company formed under the Companies Act has a considerable power of altering the objects stated in the Memorandum of Association which is signed by its first members at the formation of the company , subject to the power of the holders of fifteen per cent of its shares or debentures to apply to the court to cancel an alteration .
2 The type of packaging has a considerable influence on the way a product is used .
3 One section of the Code of Professional Conduct above all has a considerable bearing on censorship :
4 The Attorney , who has the power to use resources to buy in domestic or residential care , has a considerable responsibility .
5 In the essay with Watt he writes : ‘ The intrinsic nature of oral communication has a considerable effect upon both the content and transmission of the cultural repertoire ( 1968 , p. 29 ) .
6 Some ten years earlier , Arthur Young had already noted the discord between the natural beauty of the landscape and what man had done to it , but he saw , too — and painters also were on the verge of seeing it — that an unrestrained industrial landscape has a considerable element of sublimity about it .
7 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 .
8 It is a condition , therefore , which has a considerable natural mortality .
9 With financial support from the DES , the Language Teaching Centre is investigating the feasibility of recruiting trained foreign language teachers , particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has a considerable surplus , and reschooling them in a custom-made , one term induction course prior to their taking up a teaching-post in a British school .
10 The nature of the impact has a considerable effect on the pressure exerted on the cliff face and a number of different types have been examined by Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) .
11 The manner in which the results of evaluation studies are presented has a considerable effect on their impact .
12 Much of this Part of the Act is administrative in character , but it clearly has a considerable bearing on the scope of the rights to public meeting and assembly in Britain , and accords statutory recognition to the central position of police in the determination of the proper exercise of freedom of speech in public .
13 The banning procedure has a considerable political input , in the sense that both the district council and the Home Secretary act as controllers of the decision taken by the senior police officer .
14 Stavanger has a considerable holding of Ingard stock , but he must know that it is largely worthless .
15 The World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborative studies in the early 1970s and , later , the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) also widely documented that , in developing countries , too , maternal age has a considerable effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and the age of five years .
16 The d.c. supply voltage ( V5 ) is chosen so that it produces the rated winding current ( 1 ) when applied to the total phase circuit resistance , which is equal to the sum of the phase winding ( r ) and forcing ( R ) resistances : In general the phase winding has a considerable inductance , so its natural electrical time constant ( inductance/resistance ) is long .
17 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 .
18 The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table .
19 I know that the hon. Gentleman has a considerable understanding of education issues and will realise that all the independent evidence suggests that the problems have worsened over the last few years .
20 The church has a considerable charity programme which I administer .
21 As for unemployment , arguments about the statistics can not mask the realization that the UK has a considerable unemployment in the 1980s .
22 One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) .
23 YOUNG Jason Ennis is a superb illustrator and one who has a considerable number of strings to his artistic bow .
24 Changes in structural factors have taken place in the form of peripheral capitalist industrialisation , which has had a considerable impact on the participation of women in the labour market .
25 Therefore , Leapor may have had a considerable influence on the choice of poems to be printed .
26 Although Chomsky 's description of language in terms of transformational grammar has had a considerable impact in respect of work on language intervention , the influence of his theory of language acquisition has been much more limited .
27 RECENT observations suggest that the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 has had a considerable effect on ozone concentrations in the tropical stratosphere ( refs 1 , 2 , and J. W. Waters , personal communication ) .
28 Hobbes had had a considerable influence on Spinoza .
29 Dramatic and colourful vignettes of urban ‘ low life ’ , lacking any serious analytical purpose , had had a considerable fashionable readership in the 1850s and 60s .
30 Moreover , their viewpoint has had a considerable impact upon practical regulatory policy .
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