Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] influence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion has had a decisive influence on thinking about dreaming , and it is achieving a revival in many parts of the world . |
| 2 | Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation . |
| 3 | The building of Alexander Court has had a strong influence and the overall view of the area has been enhanced by the interaction of the garden and the new residence . |
| 4 | The ALA has had a major influence in redesigning the police recruitment forms , which have gone through three drafts since the Met tried to interest Labour councils in their campaign to attract more ethnic minority officers . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries . |
| 6 | Throughout the world we can see how the engineering , interventionist model of Western medicine has had a major influence on definitions and explanations about health , as well as on the organisation of health services and the utilisation of resources . |
| 7 | I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Cochrane 's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services . |
| 9 | Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism . |
| 10 | In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England . |
| 11 | One example is functionalist theory , a school of sociology which , as a distinct ‘ way of seeing ’ , has had a pervasive influence . |
| 12 | Andrew 's father , David played lock for the club and has had two two-year spells as the club president , while his mother , Kathleen , a physiotherapist at Kings Hospital , Dundee , has had a big influence , not least in ensuring speedy recovery from injury , notably from the sprung collarbone sustained in the ‘ B ’ international against Ireland on December 28 . |
| 13 | The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business . |
| 14 | It is the aim of this chapter to examine these theoretical issues , especially the Keynesian versus monetarist debate , since theoretical controversy has had a profound influence on the attitude of most governments towards monetary policy as an approach to macroeconomic management . |
| 15 | As to the first question , it is evident that the working-class movement has had a profound influence upon the extension of the suffrage and the creation of mass parties ( which will be examined further in Chapter 2 ) , and hence upon the establishment of a democratic political regime as it now exists in the advanced capitalist countries . |
| 16 | The anti-nuclear movement grew throughout the 1980s ; nationalist and separatist movements have revived , for example in Scotland and Quebec ; the women 's movement has had an increasing influence , although it is still far from accomplishing its larger aims ; and ecology movements have become widespread and more influential . |
| 17 | The complexity of modern technology has had an important influence on the scale of life in modern society . |
| 18 | A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations . |
| 19 | Conflict in the employment relationship has had an important influence on theories of industrial relations . |
| 20 | Most of us would strongly reject any such idea — yet the image of Eve has exercised a powerful influence on the way women have traditionally been regarded . |
| 21 | The establishment has successfully monopolised the major positions within the state and the social institutions allied to the state , and it has exercised a pervasive influence over those outside its own ranks . |
| 22 | Time has moved on since you first started dealing with someone who has become a major influence in your life and now you need to re-work your thoughts and opinions . |
| 23 | It is yet one more sign of how television has become an ever-increasing influence on the game . |
| 24 | Artificial selection , for instance , has demonstrated a genetic influence on the mating preferences of ladybirds . |
| 25 | Such a threat may constitute a bluff in that the prime minister would have more to lose if an election was called than would most MPs ( the PM could lose office : most seats are safe seats and so most MPs could expect to be reelected ) , but nonetheless it has proved a potent influence in determining parliamentary behaviour . |
| 26 | He has brought a profound influence to bear on the belief that preventing illness is not simply a matter of treating the individual . |
| 27 | On the other hand , it is necessary to appreciate in the US , for example , those instances where State law has been applied and those where Federal law has exerted a formative influence . |
| 28 | As Mandy Merck points out at the beginning of an acute and informative summary , in recent times the theory of sexual difference has exerted a profound influence on psychoanalytically inspired cultural analysis ( ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 2 ) . |
| 29 | William Harvey 's metaphor of the heart as a pump has exerted a profound influence in science because we are aware that the heart is not just a pump . |
| 30 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |