Example sentences of "had [adj] influence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence on perceptions of bias on television or in the press . |
| 2 | Pigments and inorganic primers had little influence on the results . |
| 3 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 4 | His quarrel with Luther meant that he had little influence in Germany , but there was something about his insistence on thrift , application , and hard work for its own sake that struck sympathetic chords in the Zurich temperament . |
| 5 | In tracing the influence of psychodynamic theory , Payne offers a three part periodic table consisting of the following elements : prior to 1920 when these theories had little influence ( pre-influence ) ; a period of dominance between the 1930s and 1960s ; from the 1960s to the present when they form one of many alternatives . |
| 6 | It is true also that warfare had little influence on the arts , the most obvious indicator of the ‘ climate of opinion ’ , during the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 8 | Great disorders had occurred among the children which would not have taken place had proper influence been exerted by the master . |
| 9 | In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste . |
| 10 | Aesthetically , Londoners will have to draw what consolation they can from the fact that Nicholas Ridley , the former Environment Secretary and a water-colourist with an eye for broader horizons , had some influence in the siting of the gates . |
| 11 | The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect . |
| 12 | The Situationist lifestyle ( in so far as it could be imagined ) had some influence on the hippy sub-culture in the late sixties and punk ideology in the seventies in Britain . |
| 13 | Now , before we look at Campbell 's teaching more closely , let me mention another thinker who probably had some influence on him . |
| 14 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 15 | The construction and development industry is best known for this and there were notable scandals in the 1970s which linked architects ( such as John Poulson ) , who were highly dependent on local authority orders , to key local politicians ( such as T. Dan Smith ) , who had some influence over their allocation . |
| 16 | The Factory , which had some influence on Midnight Cowboy , then decided to make their own picture about a male hustler . |
| 17 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 18 | Sometimes , though certainly not as a general rule , the family had some influence on what was provided . |
| 19 | ABOVE J C Bach ( 1735–82 ) , the youngest son of the great composer , had some influence on Mozart 's musical development . |
| 20 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 21 | And we had a neighbour named and he 'd worked at E T N S all his life and had some influence and I mentioned it to him and he asked me , asked me if he could find me a job . |
| 22 | It even had some influence on paramilitary groups like the Protestant Ulster Defence Association . |
| 23 | As a priest in the pastorate of Wainui-a-rua , Keith Elliott had tremendous influence upon Maori people in the Wanganui and Taihape area . |
| 24 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 25 | The absence of endowments before the time of the Emperor Constantine inevitably meant that well-to-do Christians had much influence on their local communities , which could be decisive when a new bishop was being chosen . |
| 26 | He had much influence on the Beecham team who isolated 6-aminopenicillanic acid . |
| 27 | Neither government policy nor social change had much influence on this crime . |
| 28 | The Communist Party never had much influence on Tyneside other than among seamen . |
| 29 | Both in these positions and as Chairman of the Wellcome Trust for 22 years , he had great influence on the development of medical research during and after the war . |
| 30 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |