Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [art] [adj] impact " in BNC.

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1 It is clear from all those in the industry that the recession has a devastating impact on emloyment and on the ability to train .
2 Little evidence , sceptics argue , has been adduced to support the claim that such teaching has a significant impact in reducing prejudice .
3 Since the bulk of the tea at the Calcutta auctions is low medium quality , the dual auction has a disproportionate impact on tea prices generally , and on London prices especially .
4 The answer which is usually proffered is a variant of the ‘ snapshot ’ argument : the stock of capital is so large in comparison with variations in the relevant flows that it would take a timespan considerably longer than the Keynesian short run for variations in the rate of net investment to have a significant impact on the size of the stock of capital .
5 After World War II , the motor car had a significant impact on the travelling public , and lorries and buses took a considerable amount of business from the railway , so it was inevitable that the railway management , casting a critical eye over branch line expenditure , however scenic , considered most of these rural lines as financially unviable .
6 Catholic schools are an integral part of the national system and , like other schools , trends in educational theory and practice have an immediate impact on them .
7 But in my opinion they can not , in the last analysis , touch the point of principle , which is that we are here concerned with the question of the basis of the common law right of recovery in these circumstances , upon which statute law has no direct impact .
8 Their reward was to be defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg , but this gallant westward thrust had an overwhelming impact on the timorous and unsure Moltke .
9 Certainly government influence had a powerful impact , and could normally secure the return of favoured candidates in constituencies where there were significant government installations ( such as the postal service at Harwich , or the dockyards at Plymouth , Portsmouth and the Cinque Ports ) .
10 His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism .
11 Comte 's work had a significant impact in Britain .
12 Freud 's theory of the death wish finds a parallel in the schizophrenic experiences described by R. D. Laing , whose work had a significant impact on a number of novelists of the period ( see section 6.2 below ) .
13 Their work had a considerable impact on both the thinking and the practice of social research , including some of the highly mathematised branches of social research .
14 The rise of this new landholding stratum had a drastic impact upon the Russian peasantry .
15 Two of the measures enacted by the 1986 Social Security Act had a significant impact on women by reversing the main attempts of the 1975 scheme to begin , albeit very slowly , to adjust state pensions to the economic experiences of women .
16 With nationalized industries accounting for more than 25 per cent of the country 's non-housing investment ( compared with less than 10 per cent in the United States and Japan ) , the efficiency of the public sector had a considerable impact throughout the whole of the economy .
17 Taking into account the Society 's view on the operation of the mobility clause and its own survey , the EOC found that the mobility requirement had a disproportionate impact on women applicants and found it indirectly discriminatory contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act .
18 Of course , the development of the internal combustion engine had a huge impact on travel .
19 We have seen that retirement has a differential impact on older people which depends primarily on their prior socio-economic status and the access which this grants to resources which might be carried into retirement .
20 If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future .
21 To this information about Asia Marx added knowledge of the Inca which he had gathered from Prescott 's famous study , The Conquest of Peru , a remarkable book which came out in 1847 and whose instant fame had a dramatic impact on nineteenth-century thought .
22 In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable .
23 Overall pre-tax profits for the group jumped 184pc to £25.3m last year from £8.9m in 1991 , when the Gulf War had a severe impact on the travel industry .
24 Indeed , an organisation 's communications structure and climate have a massive impact on workers , particularly in times of change .
25 THE COLOUR OF FLOORING HAS A GREAT IMPACT ON A ROOM , SO IT 'S VITAL TO GET IT RIGHT .
26 There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests .
27 The support of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) for Iraq throughout the Gulf conflict had a serious impact on relations between Palestinians and Kuwaitis .
28 Some would have us believe that obscenity and pornography have no social impact .
29 The common objective behind all three projects is to analyse how changes in the society as a whole have a different impact in different areas , such that the same process may come to have very different consequences according to local-level variations .
30 Owen delivered a famous paper to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1841 , in which his brilliant insights into the nature of these fearful elephantine creatures and their relationship to the known animal kingdom had a profound impact on the educated classes of his day .
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