Example sentences of "affected [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 With Jack , however , things were less simple ; we come once more to Barfield 's worry that there was something affected about the younger brother 's attitudes and poses .
2 The School was inevitably to be affected during the 1930s by the Great Depression:3 even the forces of Nature were conspirators : " During the storm on Tuesday last " [ reported the Stockport Advertiser on 1st August 1930 ] the pinnacle of the main gable on the south side over the Sykes lecture room was struck by lightning and split , some of the stonework being dislodged .
3 The most heavily affected during the barometer 's six-year life , had been the financial institutions with reported frauds totalling £490 million .
4 They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life .
5 For example , the demand for one product may be affected for the demand for another product , e.g. butter and margarine .
6 Those who survive can be affected for the rest of their lives .
7 The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment .
8 Many were affected like the young German student , highly religious and torn with doubts about the morality of the war , who wrote home shortly before being killed at Verdun on June 1st :
9 The group that has been most adversely affected under the new scheme is the unemployed under the age of twenty-five .
10 Connah 's Quay was also affected with the Englefield Avenue suffering badly .
11 The following day it was revealed that Bering had chipped a bone in a knee during the race , but such was the power of his acceleration as he took up the running that he could hardly have been affected until the very final stages .
12 The other paths have , by definition , some slack in them and some slippage can be tolerated as the end date will not be affected until the slippage results in the job becoming part of a new critical path .
13 The other paths have , by definition , some slack in them and some slippage can be tolerated as the end date will not be affected until the slippage results in the job becoming part of a new critical path .
14 Although most people wo n't be affected until the summer .
15 The time at which the sun is highest in the sky is also affected in the same way .
16 Nitrate application can be banned or severely controlled in areas where bore-holes will be particularly affected in the short term .
17 As there is no obvious reason why the reservoir should have been adversely affected in the second well , more study is clearly needed in order to understand the distribution of these cements .
18 Jordanian potash extraction will be affected in the same way as the Israelis ' .
19 But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered .
20 Babies can be affected in the womb and perhaps during birth or breastfeeding .
21 There are two key measures : ( 1 ) the incidence rate ( the number of new cases over a given period , usually a year ) and ( 2 ) the prevalence rate ( the number of cases/persons affected in the population at a particular moment in time ) .
22 Another , less charitable , view suggests that because of lack of ministerial direction — occasioned in part because there were no fewer than four different Secretaries of State between 1972 and 1978 and lack of consultative machinery between the DES and those most closely affected in the colleges , little attempt was made to anticipate events which should have been foreseen much earlier .
23 Since institutions tend to be affected in the same way by the same set of factors , share prices will be more volatile than would otherwise be the case .
24 Clearly some rulers and ministers were being affected in the second half of the century by the complex and often conflicting currents which made up the great intellectual movement of the Enlightenment ( see Chap .
25 Her words sliced through Shannon like burning arrows , but only a faint staining of her cheeks showed she 'd been affected in the slightest .
26 But it is important to observe that the competitive character of the market process has not been affected in the slightest .
27 And successful treatment is prolonging the lives of affected people — but not dealing with the causes or preventing them being affected in the first place .
28 Following her Aug. 29 announcement of willingness to negotiate ceasefire agreements with the various groups in conflict with her government [ see pp. 37657-58 ] , Aquino announced in early September her acceptance in principle of a limited ceasefire with communist insurgents , and also with rebel soldiers led by the fugitive officer Gregorio Honasan , in northern areas affected in the July earthquake [ for which see p. 37613 ] .
29 Adversely affected in the 1970s by the United Kingdom 's entry to the European Communities and by fluctuating oil prices , New Zealand declined from a position of having the third highest standard of living ( as measured by per capita GDP ) in 1951 to 15th in 1971 and 23rd by 1991 .
30 On Feb. 12 the Communist Party daily Granma announced that the Ministry of Agriculture was to lose 25,500 posts , and the Ministry of Construction 50,000 , as part of the government 's rationalization of central administration ; 15,000 of those affected in the Ministry of Agriculture would be relocated , and half of those affected in the Ministry of Construction would be sent to work in the fields .
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