Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] a [adj] influence " in BNC.

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1 Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world .
2 Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism .
3 A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations .
4 To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere .
5 There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries .
6 Most of us would strongly reject any such idea — yet the image of Eve has exercised a powerful influence on the way women have traditionally been regarded .
7 In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England .
8 On the other hand , it is necessary to appreciate in the US , for example , those instances where State law has been applied and those where Federal law has exerted a formative influence .
9 I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom .
10 The philosophies of Rousseau and of David Hartley , whose work had become a powerful influence on Coleridge , convinced them both that ‘ Vice is not natural to Man ’ , and that given strong reasons for being virtuous , ‘ Man would approach very near perfection ’ .
11 As Mandy Merck points out at the beginning of an acute and informative summary , in recent times the theory of sexual difference has exerted a profound influence on psychoanalytically inspired cultural analysis ( ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 2 ) .
12 They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale .
13 Although conventional , Crossman 's technique , dazzling for the time , shines through many of Stone 's records , notably ‘ Tiger Rag ’ from 1934 , where it is obvious that the American clarinettist Jimmy Dorsey had had a strong influence on him .
14 The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art .
15 Apart from the military manuals , a number of other US statements have suggested a certain influence of laws of war considerations .
16 The building of Alexander Court has had a strong influence and the overall view of the area has been enhanced by the interaction of the garden and the new residence .
17 The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business .
18 Conflict in the employment relationship has had an important influence on theories of industrial relations .
19 The theory of bureaucratic authoritarianism ( BA ) elaborated by O'Donnell ( 1979 ) is one of the strongest and most influential challenges to the idea that the TNCs have exerted a benevolent influence on economic and political development , particularly in Latin America .
20 It is yet one more sign of how television has become an ever-increasing influence on the game .
21 As to the first question , it is evident that the working-class movement has had a profound influence upon the extension of the suffrage and the creation of mass parties ( which will be examined further in Chapter 2 ) , and hence upon the establishment of a democratic political regime as it now exists in the advanced capitalist countries .
22 The anti-nuclear movement grew throughout the 1980s ; nationalist and separatist movements have revived , for example in Scotland and Quebec ; the women 's movement has had an increasing influence , although it is still far from accomplishing its larger aims ; and ecology movements have become widespread and more influential .
23 The ALA has had a major influence in redesigning the police recruitment forms , which have gone through three drafts since the Met tried to interest Labour councils in their campaign to attract more ethnic minority officers .
24 Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms .
25 In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) .
26 Cochrane 's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services .
27 It is the aim of this chapter to examine these theoretical issues , especially the Keynesian versus monetarist debate , since theoretical controversy has had a profound influence on the attitude of most governments towards monetary policy as an approach to macroeconomic management .
28 Results from the project have had a direct influence on the development of a new model of human memory .
29 Professional standards have had an increasing influence on the National Health Service .
30 Hobbes had had a considerable influence on Spinoza .
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