Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] affected by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kaszubian people who lived along the western Danzig suburbs were badly affected by the changes of Prussian and German rule . |
| 2 | The civil war between Renamo guerillas and the government in Mozambique also reflects this sense of deprivation — Renamo has been particularly strong amongst the Makonde of the north , who were most affected by the communal village programme of the 1970s . |
| 3 | Also important in both Glasgow and Lancaster is the existing level and type of service provision : in both cases local politics were especially affected by the nature of local housing provision . |
| 4 | Thus fewer US vessels were responsible for killing an increasing number of dolphins between 1983 and 1986 , while boats sold abroad were not affected by the imposition of dolphin kill quotas . |
| 5 | The differences in feelings of attractiveness that were seen were not affected by the age , socioeconomic status or current occupation of the smokers or nonsmokers . |
| 6 | The ANC noted that the Gramm Amendment which prohibited US support for loans to South Africa from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank was still in force , and that the arms embargo and non-federal sanctions were not affected by the lifting of the CAAA . |
| 7 | Amstrad reported an unexpectedly large loss before tax of £70.9m ( v £20.2m profit ) for the year to 30 June ; the figures were largely affected by the poor state of the PC market . |
| 8 | Many people were directly affected by the implications of the French wars . |
| 9 | They were hardly affected by the deluge , even though their diet consists very largely of the very riverbed invertebrates which were so badly affected . |
| 10 | Plans for British cities were hardly affected by the radical experiments and literature of some other countries . |
| 11 | They found that the dreams reported by the subjects were noticeably affected by the stimuli on over half the occasions . |
| 12 | Party alignments were further affected by the fact that the executive powers of the Crown were not significantly limited by the Glorious Revolution , which meant that the monarch continued to play a crucial role in shaping the pattern of politics after 1689 . |
| 13 | If even attempts to improve the standard of estate management did not raise the level of the returns ( and the study of the Talbot Whitchurch estates suggests that these were more affected by the underlying economic conditions than by the standard of management ) , the only prospect for a lord was to seek some supplementary income beyond that of his estates . |
| 14 | 3 , although this middling category were clearly affected by the economic crisis of the early 1930s when their profits and rents were probably affected greatly by the Wall Street Crash and the ensuing impact upon industry and finance throughout the world economy . |
| 15 | Shares were also affected by the growing understanding that the Chancellor 's decision to defer the bulk of his tax increases until next year means there is less scope for him to reduce interest rates . |
| 16 | They supported a considerable number of genuine charities as well as the disputable School , and were particularly affected by the new legislation of 1547 . |
| 17 | These tribes , along with the Yenisei peoples whose last surviving linguistic descendants are the Kets , were profoundly affected by the northward expansion of Turkic peoples from Inner Asia and of the Tungus from the east . |
| 18 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 19 | Waterstones and Dillons also reported that their London stores were adversely affected by the bomb scares ; as were those of the Phoenix Bookshops , which found trade in London generally poor and ‘ a drag on the rest of the business ’ . |
| 20 | Lastly , the ‘ joint venture ’ vessels , which were principally affected by the Act of 1988 , had made a significant contribution to the economic and social development of Milford Haven . |
| 21 | A number of bird sanctuaries were seriously affected by the spill . |
| 22 | Hungary 's economic dependence on grain exports , mainly wheat , meant that she was badly affected by the economic crises of the early 1930s , when the average price of agricultural produce fell sharply while that for industrial goods rose . |
| 23 | The rubber industry was badly affected by the depression of the 1930s , but its position as the second most important export was not threatened . |
| 24 | The core business , National Express , was badly affected by the recession as passenger journeys last year fell to 10.5 million from 11.8 million . |
| 25 | This friendly stance was little affected by the Nationalist victory in 1948 . |
| 26 | He was little affected by the Civil War , changing sides when it suited him . |
| 27 | An alliance of northeastern domains led by Aizu had been forced to capitulate by the end of the year , and much of the country was little affected by the civil war . |
| 28 | The course of the Spanish Civil War was crucially affected by the Anglo-French adoption of , and adherence to , the policy of non-intervention , and the similar determination of US President Roosevelt to observe the strictest neutrality towards the Spanish struggle . |
| 29 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 30 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |