Example sentences of "had a [adj] influence " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate .
5 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 .
6 Throughout the world we can see how the engineering , interventionist model of Western medicine has had a major influence on definitions and explanations about health , as well as on the organisation of health services and the utilisation of resources .
7 I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom .
8 To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere .
9 Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms .
10 This was Tom Chalmers , who had already had a great influence on the development of broadcasting in Nigeria and was later also to have a major impact on the development of radio in Malawi , Zambia , Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland .
11 Such work is starting to have an effect in feminist psychology , but it has already had a great influence on feminism .
12 This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 .
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 Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation .
15 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 .
16 The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art .
17 He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it .
18 The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt .
19 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 .
20 While the latter have undoubtedly had a powerful influence , we 've tried to select movies that best reflect that amorphous beast we call Rock Culture .
21 Before addressing this question I must turn aside to summarise two decisions , which have had a powerful influence on the shape of the present proceedings .
22 Cochrane 's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services .
23 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 ) .
24 Consequently , developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations .
25 Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world .
26 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 .
27 Yet these movements undoubtedly have had a profound influence on Western political culture , especially in Germany and southern Europe where cold war attitudes are less deeply embedded and political processes have been more decentralised .
28 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 .
29 The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business .
30 One example is functionalist theory , a school of sociology which , as a distinct ‘ way of seeing ’ , has had a pervasive influence .
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