Example sentences of "it had [adj] influence [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 .
2 By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy .
3 Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early .
4 The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later .
5 It had considerable influence in negotiating the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791 and in preparing a new oath of allegiance .
6 No doubt it had considerable influence upon the book but Peter Green , author of the definitive ‘ Kenneth Grahame — a Biography ’ , believes the Fowey River to be the true setting of the tale .
7 Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks .
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