Example sentences of "to have [adj] impact " in BNC.

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1 The study begins by seeking a working definition of the term ‘ multimedia ’ and by placing multimedia in the context of the electronic information industry as a whole , indicating where it is likely to have greatest impact .
2 The government in the 1930s saw the BUF as a nuisance which needed to be watched , but which was felt to have little impact on wider society and which suffered from grave internal weaknesses .
3 At ward level , managerial changes often seem to have little impact or significance on clinical practice , and experience suggests many nurses are unaware of or uninterested in the implications of such reforms .
4 Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers .
5 In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that
6 Venables did manage to have some impact on the proceedings in the 65th minute , when he appeared to prompt the substitution of the inept Gordon Durie for Nick Barmby .
7 The single market is sure to have some impact on EDI use , but the main motivation for adopting EDI in the lean 1990s is competitive pressure .
8 In 1975 when North Tyneside and Ben well CDPs attempted to locate ‘ change agents ’ with sufficient force to have some impact on the structural origins of the situation in the two locales , the obvious target was the rank-and-file organizations of the traditional industrial working class .
9 Yet she desperately wanted him to acknowledge her , to have some impact on his contained life .
10 Only the most senior officials may be in a position to have some impact upon determining their own interests .
11 Both behavioural and cognitive theories are relatively recent developments , and have begun to have some impact only in the last decade or two .
12 As with the Yashica and Minolta AF-SP , the 35mm lens means you have to get close to the action if your photos are to have real impact .
13 Moreover , the use of gas is not likely to have much impact globally .
14 There is increased recognition that concentrating limited national training resources at the professional or university level is not likely to have much impact on the service needs of people at the grass roots .
15 However , increasing congestion in the airspace over southern England may alter the balance of advantage although this has yet to have much impact on scheduled flights .
16 Despite the phraseology , the Messina declaration did not seem to have much impact at the time ; it was not seen as a dramatic move towards supranationalism .
17 Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics .
18 But it seems doubtful if it was big enough to have much impact .
19 A further problem is that the promotion , pay and career development of officials may be outside the control of immediate superiors and hence it may be difficult for the departmental head to have much impact upon the work , the responsibilities , the morale and the development of individuals within the organisation .
20 Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives .
21 The 19th century saw two significant changes in the newspaper industry which were to have considerable impact on future developments .
22 Body fat distribution in women of reproductive age seems to have more impact on fertility than age or obesity .
23 The workload of the ENP will have to be increased in order to have any impact on the department — in particular on the ever-increasing waiting times .
24 The former are trifling and would be too insignificant to have any impact on corporate crime ( Clinard et al .
25 The explosion had been filmed by a BBC TV cameraman , Bernard Hesketh , but was over too quickly to have any impact .
26 Surveillance may be carried out adequately by a skilled practitioner in 10 to 14 minutes once or twice a year , but , to have any impact , discussions about management and lifestyle to reduce the risk of complications will take longer .
27 The one advantage of the Longmans course is that it is rather dull and lifeless and therefore less likely to have any impact on the pupils .
28 Depending on the circumstances of the case , a review at this stage would be too late to have any impact on a project .
29 Statutory requirements that persons bargain in good faith , or that contractual terms be reasonable , have a relatively narrow ambit , and are interpreted to have minimum impact in the commercial context .
30 It should encompass the life style ambitions of the vendor and care should be taken to take into account the views of the vendors immediate family as these are likely to have significant impact .
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