Example sentences of "affected by the " in BNC.

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1 Based in the Sinhalese south of the island , the Mothers ' Front has nonetheless stated its intention to embrace those affected by the thousands of ‘ disappearances ’ in the Tamil-dominated areas of the north and east of the country .
2 Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth .
3 That the bishops were affected by the opposition of the medical profession to the scheme — clearly they stood to lose money and independence if such a scheme were implemented — seems likely .
4 Susceptibility to high ‘ g ’ is greatly affected by the duration of the loading , and whereas most people can cope with 3 to 4 g for a few seconds , a sustained loading of that amount may cause loss of vision .
5 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 .
6 I 'm certainly affected by the whole idea in the strangest manner , quite paranoid .
7 Around a third of people in the study reported being affected by the overlapping benefit rules , and this aroused strong feeling of unjustice .
8 These touches will depend firstly on the type of character to be portrayed ; secondly on how their movements will be affected by the unfolding of the plot , theme and/or music ; thirdly on what particular steps , poses and gestures within the total design will be needed to communicate meaning .
9 When I first saw the dog , it was quite obvious he 'd been deeply affected by the explosion and had developed a 100-watt phobia for light bulbs !
10 Since data compression relies on redundancy in the information to be compressed , performance is affected by the nature of the data .
11 Potential members of Taurus include the listed companies affected by the scheme , registrars , private client brokers , retail brokers , custodian banks , institutional investors , and money brokers .
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 In information and marketing , trading has been adversely affected by the downturn in consumer spending , and the group does not see the position being reversed this year .
14 It claims to eliminate toxins from the body , to restore a normal potassium and sodium balance in cells ( which is thought to be disturbed in cancer patients ) , to boost liver function ( also affected by the disease ) and to reactivate certain enzymes .
15 They were hardly affected by the deluge , even though their diet consists very largely of the very riverbed invertebrates which were so badly affected .
16 Despite this the market treats Evans like a black sheep with a severe attack of Chancelloritus — the disease that afflicts any company that people think will be affected by the Chancellor 's high interest rate policies .
17 Occasionally it was suspected that the behaviour of respondents was being affected by the presence of the field-worker , to what extent it is impossible to estimate , but this is the disadvantage of all overt research techniques and is not unique to ethnography .
18 The activities of both companies were affected by the general economic recession prevailing throughout 1990 and the loss of some machine sites on RAF stations has also reduced RAFAMACS ' revenue .
19 The situation is in no way affected by the title ‘ Head of the Commonwealth ’ , which , against my protest , was attached by Parliament in 1953 to the Crown of the United Kingdom .
20 Writing about the novel in 1 927 , Eliot stated that ‘ nearly every contemporary novel known to me is either directly affected by a study of psycho-analysis , or affected by the atmosphere created by psycho-analysis , or inspired by a desire to escape from psycho-analysis …
21 Intermediate stops ( that is , those affected by the fifth freedom ) would be decided by the international body .
22 This friendly stance was little affected by the Nationalist victory in 1948 .
23 ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision .
24 The civil war between Renamo guerillas and the government in Mozambique also reflects this sense of deprivation — Renamo has been particularly strong amongst the Makonde of the north , who were most affected by the communal village programme of the 1970s .
25 This details its past record , how its performance is expected to be affected by the jockey , whether the grass is soft or firm and the distance .
26 Growth hormone is released into the blood during the first part of sleep , but this is affected by the 24-hour body clock to a small extent only , so that changes in the timing of sleep are followed almost immediately by changes in growth hormone release .
27 The design of farm buildings was also affected by the local building tradition .
28 Asian hoteliers and restaurateurs have been reluctant to disclose the extent to which they have been affected by the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) .
29 A spokesman for Control Securities — the largest Asian-owned UK company to be affected by the BCCI collapse — refused to comment on the issues .
30 It is 200kms ( 124 miles ) south of Ethiopia 's capital , Addis Ababa , far from the areas affected by the civil war .
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