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

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1 ‘ The recession has had a severe impact upon the advertising market but by sheer hard work , backed by increasing readership we have been able to increase revenues over our last financial year — we would like to have done better but we are pleased to have held our own in a difficult market . ’
2 The decline of British manufacturing industry has had a devastating impact on the inner cities where such a large proportion of the black population live and this has been exacerbated by racial discrimination by employers to yield high levels of black youth unemployment ( Martin and Rowthorn , 1986 ; Newnham , 1986 ) .
3 Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford .
4 This recognition has had a major impact , not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries .
5 There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place .
6 In London , the combination of exceptionally low community charge levels and big swings to the Conservatives in Wandsworth and Westminster and , conversely , an almost equally poor Labour performance in charge-capped Brent and Hammersmith and Fulham , seemed to provide prima facie evidence that the poll tax had had a significant impact on behaviour .
7 The war had had a differential impact on the economies , with Belgium much less adversely affected than the Netherlands .
8 Advances in structuralism have had a belated impact on British historiography .
9 Furthermore , he claims that attempts to make clerical work more routine have had a limited impact because clerical skills and qualifications have not been standardized .
10 As 60 per cent of the cassava grown in this area is marketed in towns , a yield increase even of this order of magnitude has had a positive impact on urban food supplies .
11 How ICI halved the value of its shareholders ' funds 20 years of 10% a year inflation has had a significant impact on the accounts of ICI and GEC
12 Although Chomsky 's description of language in terms of transformational grammar has had a considerable impact in respect of work on language intervention , the influence of his theory of language acquisition has been much more limited .
13 ‘ Elsewhere short-termism has had a terrible impact on the industry with quarterly reporting and the fear of doing anything that might affect the share price , ’ he said .
14 The Franks Report has had a major impact on critical analysis of tribunals .
15 Heavy job losses in the City have had a huge impact on the lifestyles of people working in the finance sector .
16 Nevertheless , concern about the loss of agricultural land has had a major impact on development plans , on planning decisions , and on appeal decisions .
17 Moreover , their viewpoint has had a considerable impact upon practical regulatory policy .
18 In another study Frost and Spence ( 1984 , 145 ) also argue that industrial restructuring has had a negligible impact on changes in employment patterns , either positively or negatively , and that these are anyway offset by ‘ very rapid growth in certain service activities ’ , notably the health services , to produce the different patterns of change shown in Figure 5.7 .
19 This perspective has had a remarkable impact on the development of our understanding of work organisation and job design , and is at the root of much of experiments and innovations in work organisation in Scandinavia .
20 It is evident that the emergence of competition in both generation and supply has had a significant impact on prices .
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