Example sentences of "have a major impact " in BNC.

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1 We have just noted that new technology has a major impact at work in accelerating the shift from manufacturing into services , in reducing the amount of routine work , and in job displacement .
2 This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles .
3 The past year has seen considerable activity within the profession , which in turn has a major impact on the public we serve .
4 The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact .
5 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
6 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
7 Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford .
8 Remembrement — the government sponsored reorganisation of land to produce larger fields and rationalised farms — has had a major impact on agricultural productivity and intensification in many parts of the French lowlands over the last few decades .
9 This recognition has had a major impact , not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries .
10 ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman .
11 The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy .
12 The Franks Report has had a major impact on critical analysis of tribunals .
13 Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned .
14 These key demographic developments of the past 20–30 years have had a major impact on regional and local populations in the UK .
15 Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations .
16 The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi .
17 There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place .
18 MRI has had a major impact on the diagnosis of primary and secondary tumours within the central nervous system .
19 Nevertheless , concern about the loss of agricultural land has had a major impact on development plans , on planning decisions , and on appeal decisions .
20 Dakotas have had a major impact on the development of South African aviation .
21 Although Urry ( 134 ) reasonably cautions against a ‘ politicist ’ account that sees nationalization as largely reflecting the ambitions of the labour movement and its political representatives , these ambitions have had a major impact on nationalization .
22 Since labour costs account for around 60 per cent of operating costs in BR and RENFE , these pressures for financial stringency and cost cutting have naturally had a major impact on industrial relations in the two enterprises as later chapters will show .
23 Similarly , by playing roles such as mediator , ideas person , sceptic , analyst , summarizer , you can also have a major impact not only in the meeting but far beyond it .
24 The airlines clearly believe that they can hang on to their lucrative business market despite evidence from France that high speed trains can have a major impact on travel preferences .
25 It will have a major impact on many areas of business life .
26 However , what happens in the Church of England can have a major impact on people outside it , as well as on regular church attenders , for a number of reasons .
27 Under nurse training the report points out that the changes in the development of primary and community health services will have a major impact on training , which regions will need to take into account .
28 Moscow resented being excluded from the post-war occupation of Japan for example , whilst Washington was disturbed at the Communist victory in China in 1949 , and in June 1950 the invasion of pro-Western South Korea by the Communist North dramatically demonstrated that Cold War tensions outside Europe could have a major impact within Europe .
29 Again to quote Hopwood ( 1984 , p. 179 ) : ‘ Accounting , by shaping the realm of the visible , can have a major impact on the significance that is attached to both organizational life as it is and the directions of change which are considered desirable . ’
30 The technique will have a major impact in this subject .
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