Example sentences of "a major impact " in BNC.

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1 Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour .
2 The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact .
3 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
4 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
5 Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford .
6 The Spanish Civil War , which began in July 1936 when General Franco 's fascist troops from Morocco landed in southern Spain , exerted a major impact upon the international political scene and , nationally , upon the attitude of the right and left in Britain .
7 You are about to set out on an interesting and formative experience , something that is likely to have a major impact on your life .
8 Environmental policy : how to apply economic instruments , targets economic sectors that have a major impact on the environment , ie energy , transport , agriculture and industry and OECD believe it will prove useful to governments , business , industry and pressure groups concerned about the environment and sustainable economic development .
9 The second dramatisation to have a major impact in the 1980s was shown only a few days after ‘ Walter ’ .
10 The next import to make a major impact on the British breeding scene was Ch.
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 This change in economic strategy ( the main objective now being price stability ) had a major impact on financial institutions and markets .
14 As the reader will , perhaps , already know , developments in the US economy and financial system ( Federal budget deficit , interest rates , etc. ) have a major impact on the international economy and financial system .
15 The SNC meteorites are not suspected of being material ejected from Earth following a major impact and which subsequently fell back to Earth .
16 The term does not apply , however , to material ejected after a major impact on Earth and which follows a suborbital path back through the atmosphere to the Earth 's surface .
17 But in numerical terms this factor can hardly have made a major impact — the Max Planck Institutes permanently employ only 2000 researchers , compared with a total of 76 000 university academics of whom more than 20 000 are professors .
18 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 .
19 This recognition has had a major impact , not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries .
20 It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race .
21 It will have a major impact on many areas of business life .
22 In the areas of social policy , a separate protocol to which all the member states except the United Kingdom are signatories , is likely to have a major impact on companies operating in the Community , including a probable ‘ trickle-on ’ effect to companies based in the United Kingdom .
23 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 .
24 But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election .
25 Thirdly , the new technology is having a major impact at work , for a number of reasons .
26 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 .
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 ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman .
29 With the European Community continuing to have a major impact on the key corporate tax planning issues associated with operations in mainland Europe , and with the wide divergence of personal tax practices and rules globally , keeping abreast of developments is essential for all practitioners .
30 The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy .
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