Example sentences of "affected by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Safety officials at the Harwell laboratory near Didcot are denying staff have been affected by radio-active contamination following a recent accident .
2 We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class .
3 Performance affected by weak margins , particularly in refining
4 This is sunk into the stone some 30 feet below gallery level , and is also affected by powerful size-altering enchantments .
5 In Champagne the Pinot Noir is the variety least affected by powdery mildew .
6 Sustaining the improvement in our performance will therefore depend on expanding our international and non-oil markets , although the profits of the former will be affected by start-up losses as we move into new territories .
7 Addressing and answering these questions was essentially a process of considering how existing work practices would be affected by each of the technical solutions , aided by a device known as a measurement unit , developed from the knowledge gained during the analysis activity .
8 He controlled the extent and the areas affected by each plague .
9 This system is so named because at beast two accounts ( for example , cash , stock , accounts payable ) are always affected by each transaction .
10 It 's the fairest way of ensuring that those affected by each route are able to what the case for and against that route is . ’
11 There is a definite spark between Vronsky and Anna at their first meeting and they are affected by each other even if it is just subconsciously .
12 Our data clearly demonstrate that the election results in individual local authorities in 1990 were at most only marginally affected by absolute or relative poll tax levels .
13 Carboniferous sediments have been affected by low-amplitude Hercynian folding , Mesozoic rift faulting and Cretaceous inversion-related compression and fault re-activation .
14 Indigenous British women affected by post-natal depression are often single mothers or those whose husbands or boyfriends do n't give them the care and affection or help they need in this new stage of their life .
15 This brings to the fore questions of the planning and design of production systems , and poses the question of whether in a democratic society , the people who will be most affected by technological change will be able to influence its conception and implementation .
16 Labour markets are indirectly affected by monopolistic competition in product markets .
17 The data from this study confirm that non-pharmacological factors are important determinants of duodenal ulcer healing during treatment with a histamine H 2 receptor antagonist and that healing processes are affected by multiple factors whose effects are cumulative .
18 It does make sense that the lateral line would be adversely affected by prolonged exposure to unusually high voltage .
19 At a time when his health was failing , Hurter 's judgement was affected by emotional loyalty to the Leblanc process , to which he had made such valuable contributions in the past .
20 Dillon LJ dismissed the conscience approach as it would be difficult to apply and would inevitably be affected by emotional factors .
21 It is argued that although cattle stealing was affected by administrative arrangements , particularly in the twentieth century , it was more sensitive to economic influences , especially changes in land use brought on by the expansion of plantations .
22 Changes in the TPFR should be interpreted with caution , however , as they can be affected by short-term changes in the timing of childbearing .
23 Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy .
24 It may be thought that a body like the National Trust with a well-defined statutory purpose to preserve places of natural beauty or historic interest in perpetuity for the benefit of the nation , is not affected by changing public opinion or fears for the global environment .
25 The transition from the post-war boom in traditional industries to a modernized branch plant structure occurred after the Hailsham Plan of 1963 and changed the nature of the origins of the region 's economic problems from overspecialization by industrial sector ( i.e. over-reliance on old basic industries particularly affected by changing market demands and the new international division of labour ) into overspecialization by corporate function ( i.e. under-representation of control and research and development functions ) .
26 Just as with profit measures , capital measures are affected by changing prices .
27 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the disposable income of 10 million mortgage payers is affected by two factors — income tax and interest rates ?
28 In the 1980s the United Kingdom New Issue market in equities has been affected by two major developments .
29 The truly happy person is not affected by many types of irritation and stress .
30 Skin is affected by many factors including genetics , age , environment and attention — or lack of it .
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