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

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1 The process of retirement too has a differential impact on men and women , but the experience of women has remained obscured because old age has been regarded , in Simone de Beauvoir 's ( 1977 , p. 101 ) terms , as ‘ a man 's problem ’ .
2 We have seen that retirement has a differential impact on older people which depends primarily on their prior socio-economic status and the access which this grants to resources which might be carried into retirement .
3 Such a decline in forecasts of demand inevitably has a devastating impact on the need for new generating capacity .
4 It is clear from all those in the industry that the recession has a devastating impact on emloyment and on the ability to train .
5 Marital status has a greater impact on the mortality rates for men than those for women ( see Table 1 ) .
6 It could just be that you are the indirect cause of the complaint and the action you take has a consequential impact on the customer .
7 The existing structure of excise duties clearly has a perverse impact on the balance of trade .
8 THE COLOUR OF FLOORING HAS A GREAT IMPACT ON A ROOM , SO IT 'S VITAL TO GET IT RIGHT .
9 This means that migration now has a major impact on population change , even though Ravenstein 's first law is still seen to hold , since Brant ( 1984 ) has shown that of the 9 per cent of people who moved between 1980 and 1981 , a massive 70 per cent moved less than six miles .
10 The past year has seen considerable activity within the profession , which in turn has a major impact on the public we serve .
11 While the abilities to read , write , and be numerate are essential for negotiating one 's way in society , their acquisition also has a profound impact on the nature of mental life .
12 The employment and income created directly and indirectly by Scotch Whisky companies and their associated supplier chains has a further impact on the UK economy .
13 For a start the required reduction in the price level may have to be very large indeed before it has a significant impact on aggregate spending .
14 And , last but not least , its growth and production has a huge impact on the environment we live in .
15 This disgruntled minority has a disturbing impact on the performance of other pupils .
16 The relative amount of processing performed by the eye and the brain has a big impact on the visual world of all animals .
17 Since the bulk of the tea at the Calcutta auctions is low medium quality , the dual auction has a disproportionate impact on tea prices generally , and on London prices especially .
18 Erm Heathrow has a massive impact on local roads already , thirty six million passengers a year arrive by road and of course there 's also the airport staff and freight implications .
19 That , in turn , has a fundamental impact on interest rates and equities .
20 It has a direct impact on our growth as persons , happy or unhappy .
21 Furthermore , monetary policy is not as crucial as fiscal policy because the latter has a direct impact on economic activity via government expenditure and taxation , whereas monetary policy only affects economic activity indirectly via the tenuous link between interest rates and investment .
22 Scale has a direct impact on fuel costs .
23 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 .
24 I HAD particular reasons for enjoying an article in the Sunday Times last weekend which suggested that only on three occasions in recent decades has satire actually had a real impact on our political life .
25 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
26 The housing slump has also had a major impact on removal firms .
27 Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford .
28 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 .
29 The Franks Report has had a major impact on critical analysis of tribunals .
30 Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned .
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