Example sentences of "have considerable influence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its director is also head of the GSS and as such has considerable influence over statistics throughout Whitehall . |
| 2 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |
| 3 | The selection of the method of purification of the wastes therefore has considerable influence on the plant costs . |
| 4 | The school was Summerhill , run by A. S. Neill , whose revolutionary views on education have since had considerable influence on modern teaching methods . |
| 5 | The reality , however , is that the Institute has had considerable influence in knocking the rough edges off legislation and practice . |
| 6 | The Baroness has had considerable influence on the decor ; for example , she insisted on marble rather than wooden floors , and pink walls . |
| 7 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
| 8 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 9 | Papers published in other journals which have no such limitation may contain many more references , some of which will have had considerable influence on the authors , and others whose influence is slight . |
| 10 | It is still a novel concept , and potential job sharers should be aware that they will be breaking new ground and that their performance may have considerable influence on the future of job sharing in medicine . |
| 11 | Education again provides a good example : central government has a strong interest in the provision of an education service which meets its perception of national priorities ; local people , especially parents , expect to have considerable influence over the education provided for their children . |
| 12 | For all these reasons an alternative to the centralised curriculum development project was sought , and the ideas of Stenhouse , and those like him , came to have considerable influence . |
| 13 | Overcoming this subject-centred narrowness will enable historians to contribute immeasurably to standards definition and thus to have considerable influence over how large-scale datasets are created in future . |
| 14 | Questions were raised about the power of a shadowy ‘ Government-and-church Council ’ , headed by Mr Mazowiecki and leading members of the episcopate , which had considerable influence over many government decisions . |
| 15 | No doubt it had considerable influence upon the book but Peter Green , author of the definitive ‘ Kenneth Grahame — a Biography ’ , believes the Fowey River to be the true setting of the tale . |
| 16 | A dullish designer if one compares his work to the brio and subtleties of French Art Nouveau , he nonetheless had considerable influence as a theoretician early this century , and at the end of his life , wrote his memoirs in which he emphasised his role in the creation of the modern movement . |
| 17 | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision . |
| 18 | The Socialist Students Union , expelled from the SPD in 1961 and controlled by the extreme left , had considerable influence ; Rudi Dutschke formed an ‘ extra-parliamentary opposition ’ ( the APO ) to transform Germany into a libertarian society and a ‘ direct democracy ’ . |
| 19 | Marsh 's book had considerable influence and played a role in stimulating the US government to set up a Forestry Commission to manage the nation 's resources . |
| 20 | The POR had considerable influence in the powerful Bolivian mine-workers ' union , the FSTMB , and was responsible for drafting its main charter , the Thesis of Pulacayo , in 1946 . |
| 21 | Whiteside was highly esteemed as an experimental philosopher ; his courses had considerable influence , and were continued after his death by James Bradley [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | This type had considerable influence on locomotive design for many years . |
| 23 | Brayne had considerable influence on other millenarian and spiritual writers . |
| 24 | It had considerable influence in negotiating the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791 and in preparing a new oath of allegiance . |
| 25 | The members of the Legislative Commission of 1767 received from the areas which elected them both instructions and statements of grievances : digests of these were studied by the empress and had considerable influence on her later activities , notably on the reform of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 26 | The need to guard against desertion had considerable influence even on the development of tactics ; and governments naturally made efforts to repress a practice which so obviously threatened the strength and morale of their armies . |
| 27 | Chaovalit had considerable influence on Thailand 's relations with its neighbours . |
| 28 | These men must have been close to the king , and no doubt had considerable influence with him . |
| 29 | For such a tiny group , he true Trotskyists had considerable influence . |
| 30 | Monetarist ideas had considerable influence among economics ministers . |