Example sentences of "a great impact " in BNC.

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1 Recruitment policies are not touched on , with one brief prewar exception ( p. 10 ) , which means that we are kept in ignorance of the kinds of men and women ( reputedly mostly Oxbridge dons ) who augmented MI5 's strength and clearly had a great impact on its whole character and competence at the beginning of the war .
2 The reason why party political broadcasts , however clever and imaginative , rarely have a great impact is because they are still essentially advertising , and people know it .
3 But a great impact had been made .
4 I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare .
5 Towards the end of Maurice 's life , in 1860 , there appeared a collection of papers by seven Oxford dons , entitled Essays and Reviews , and these made a great impact in Britain .
6 THE COLOUR OF FLOORING HAS A GREAT IMPACT ON A ROOM , SO IT 'S VITAL TO GET IT RIGHT .
7 What they observe and how they are received will have a great impact on how they perceive the service and those who work within it .
8 The development of this industry by 1981 ( costing £25000m at 1980 prices ) made a great impact on northern Scotland , a region of longstanding unemployment and depopulation .
9 Child psychiatrist Dr Dora Black says , ‘ Siblings obviously have a great impact on each other .
10 He did not make a great impact beyond his own office .
11 Nylon made a great impact on the textile industry when it was first discovered .
12 Since the Root Thesaurus did not emerge until 1981 , it has not had a great impact on existing thesauri to date , but it could well be important in the future .
13 The 1954 Open Day in LEEDS run by the CCPR , with Molly and Ursula Tinney teaching , made a great impact and was followed in 1955 by a visit from the Medaus .
14 Starting with Camco , the newly appointed Chief Executive er , has been very , very active and has made a great impact already .
15 This will have a great impact on records-keeping activities in these areas .
16 The way in which a product is marketed will obviously have a great impact upon the public 's expectation .
17 Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys .
18 In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) .
19 NOWHERE did the 1980s have a greater impact than on the services which at sectorisation became Network SouthEast ( NSE ) .
20 The Task Force on ‘ the environmental dimension ’ of the internal market described itself as ‘ much concerned ’ with the transport sector , which it thought would have a greater impact on the environment than any other sector .
21 Being a European offshore island was beginning to make a greater impact upon British affairs .
22 Greater attention is now being given to the training of front-line paraprofessional personnel in order to have a greater impact on the country 's social development needs ( Pathah. 1983 ) .
23 Taken together with consultation with family members , this suggests that , when sectioned , family members had a greater impact on the length of admission .
24 A plaque on a wall is admittedly not much to look at for those with a passion for working machinery and dramatic industrial landscapes , but this one marks the site of the foundation of that industry which has had a greater impact on civilization than any other .
25 Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy .
26 These data suggest that unemployment had a greater impact on major illness ( sickness lasting three months or more ) over this decade than vice versa , although the effect is not tremendously powerful .
27 In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) .
28 Testimonies lived out in daily life may frequently have a greater impact for eternity than many a well-delivered sermon .
29 No single book ever had a greater impact on pacifist thinking in Britain than Norman Angell 's The Great Illusion .
30 As an industry-wide co-ordinating force , the Forum 's specifications and views have a greater impact than those of a single carrier , ’ he said .
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