Example sentences of "be to have a [adj] impact " in BNC.

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1 A number of commentators in the late 1970s argued that the scope of work design techniques should be widened , to involve more significant organizational design and culture changes , if these approaches were to have a real impact on organizational performance ( Buchanan , 1979 ; Weir , 1976 ; Wild , 1975 ) .
2 If WACC is to have a significant impact on global communication , there must be much more dialogue with the creative and economic forces which are at the heart of the system .
3 The dispute threatened to spread to Woolwich , Birmingham , Belfast and other centres of the munitions industry ; the legislation of December 1915 was to have a major impact on British housing policy .
4 The Russian Revolution , however , was to have a dramatic impact on the Party .
5 Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history .
6 The ideological division of women into two classes , the virtuous and the fallen , was already well developed by the mid-eighteenth century : its reality was to have a vivid impact on the Victorian imagination .
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