Example sentences of "a [adj] impact " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pre-tensions the seat belts and pulls the steering column away from the driver in the event of a frontal impact . |
| 2 | While few doubt that the Vauxhall move is aimed at upstaging Ford , whose Mondeo goes on sale next month with a driver side bag as standard , the Vauxhalls will be fitted with the full size , US-specification airbag designed to save the driver in a frontal impact without relying on a seatbelt . |
| 3 | Some of the changes could have a transforming impact — by 2056 , for example , the majority of people in the US will no longer be of white , European extraction . |
| 4 | But if Rolle 's positioning of the agony in the garden has a simpler impact than that in the Mirror , his meditations nevertheless achieve a similar overall effect through his prayerful response to the series of emphasised moments in the Passion narrative . |
| 5 | Such a decline in forecasts of demand inevitably has a devastating impact on the need for new generating capacity . |
| 6 | Bills of this size will have a devastating impact on families still struggling to fight their way out of the recession . |
| 7 | The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | They can , nonetheless , have a devastating impact by blighting wide areas , suppressing property prices and severely denting the future economic prospects of a locality . |
| 9 | Does he agree that that policy would have a devastating impact on people who live in the country areas of Teignbridge ? |
| 10 | It is clear from all those in the industry that the recession has a devastating impact on emloyment and on the ability to train . |
| 11 | The massive bombing campaign launched against Iraq by the US-led coalition during January and February had a devastating impact on the country 's infrastructure . |
| 12 | The existing trade embargo , imposed following the September 1991 military coup [ see pp. 38430 ; 38522-23 ] , had failed to produce concessions , and had apparently provided opportunities for the rich pro-coup elite and sections of the army to profit from widespread smuggling , but there was evidence that it had had a devastating impact on Haiti 's economy . |
| 13 | As predicted by environmentalists , the damming of the Danube at Gabcikovo , part of a huge hydroelectric project sponsored by the Slovak government , has had a devastating impact on the local environment . |
| 14 | There was a discernable impact , and in any case , part of the concept is to create an interest in books at Christmas , and we are happy that we were creating extra sales and an awareness of books . ’ |
| 15 | Lucy Lippard wrote about Eva Hesse in 1976 : ‘ Hesse died just before the women 's movement gained a broad impact on the art world and she considered herself one of the unusual ones , almost a freak , since there were so few women artists at all visible at that time ’ 5 |
| 16 | ‘ Somewhere in the late 1990s , these kinds of personal devices are going to a terrific impact on the world , ’ Sculley said . |
| 17 | At first , the father 's contribution ( and we are here making the assumption that he is not the principal parent ) does not have a differential impact on boys and on girls . |
| 18 | A small event like mother-in-law coming to stay can have a differential impact on newly marrieds . |
| 19 | The war had had a differential impact on the economies , with Belgium much less adversely affected than the Netherlands . |
| 20 | These sources of professional freedom clearly have a differential impact depending upon ( a ) the professional involved , ( b ) the organizational setting in which professionals work , and ( c ) the policies that they are required to implement . |
| 21 | The process of retirement too has a differential impact on men and women , but the experience of women has remained obscured because old age has been regarded , in Simone de Beauvoir 's ( 1977 , p. 101 ) terms , as ‘ a man 's problem ’ . |
| 22 | We have seen that retirement has a differential impact on older people which depends primarily on their prior socio-economic status and the access which this grants to resources which might be carried into retirement . |
| 23 | Where there is a high level of predictability then there is a low impact . |
| 24 | An essential part of such a major deal is that the album from an established artist is launched into the market place with a strong impact . |
| 25 | The events in East Germany and Czechoslovakia have made a strong impact , he says . |
| 26 | In chapter four below , there will be an examination of her poetry to demonstrate what sorts of books Leapor read , and especially those that made a strong impact on her work . |
| 27 | He would like to see , for example , more acknowledgement that hospitals themselves have a strong impact on people , and he thinks some study should be devoted to this . |
| 28 | A shrub on either side or hanging baskets make a strong impact , but beware of coach lanterns and spoked cartwheels . |
| 29 | It made a strong impact on me . |
| 30 | Remember to always use simplicity in design and plant boldly in groups of two or three for a strong impact . |