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

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1 In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) .
2 Taken together with consultation with family members , this suggests that , when sectioned , family members had a greater impact on the length of admission .
3 These data suggest that unemployment had a greater impact on major illness ( sickness lasting three months or more ) over this decade than vice versa , although the effect is not tremendously powerful .
4 No single book ever had a greater impact on pacifist thinking in Britain than Norman Angell 's The Great Illusion .
5 This had a greater impact on Moscow since it was followed by the declaration on the neutrality of Laos on 23 July adopted by the states which participated in the Geneva Conference .
6 There is no doubt that this early form of man had a greater impact on the natural world than any other animal .
7 It had a greater impact on prices than previous upswings of comparable magnitude .
8 There is , however , one major development which had a powerful impact on the portfolio and has considerable implications for the economy , namely the events that started on Wednesday 16th September , when the base rates went up from 10% to 12% to 15% and then back to 12% to 10% , all in the space of 24 hours .
9 It yielded in turn to the peak or vernacular building , with a whole range of housing types carefully adapted to the varied needs and ambitions of their builders Probably for the first time , minor differentiations in social rank had a lasting impact on architectural development in Sussex .
10 Each man had grandiose visions , Neither was able to turn them into reality but , for better or for worse , they had a lasting impact on the Middle East .
11 The massive bombing campaign launched against Iraq by the US-led coalition during January and February had a devastating impact on the country 's infrastructure .
12 Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ .
13 Sir Richard said sportsmen had a tremendous impact on youngsters when it came to tobacco advertising and they had to set an example .
14 In turn this had a substantial impact on industrial organisation , most especially through the demand for labour and capital .
15 The support of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) for Iraq throughout the Gulf conflict had a serious impact on relations between Palestinians and Kuwaitis .
16 The reduction in Soviet exports of materials had a serious impact on heavy industry and textiles manufacturing , both of which had been adversely affected by internal subsidy reductions .
17 Recruitment policies are not touched on , with one brief prewar exception ( p. 10 ) , which means that we are kept in ignorance of the kinds of men and women ( reputedly mostly Oxbridge dons ) who augmented MI5 's strength and clearly had a great impact on its whole character and competence at the beginning of the war .
18 More than half of the 2,000 nurses surveyed said changes to staffing levels where they worked had a detrimental impact on the quality of care .
19 This change in economic strategy ( the main objective now being price stability ) had a major impact on financial institutions and markets .
20 These events — especially those relating to international finance — had a major impact on the approach to economic planning .
21 Not surprisingly , the bourgeois ideology of domesticity had a major impact on the subordinate elements in the bourgeois coalition itself , those class fractions and groups who aspired to its social standards and standing , the middle and lower bourgeoisie .
22 These issues were hotly debated but in February 1946 George Kennan , a US diplomat in Moscow , wrote an analysis of Soviet policy which had a major impact on thinking in Washington .
23 Both colonial issues and the Cold War had by then had a major impact on French domestic politics , dividing the Communists from the other two major parties .
24 They had a major impact on the community , and attracted authority , wealth and prestige .
25 The apparent reason for this increase in imports was a reduction in demand from China which had a major impact on the international market for urea ( see Lancaster , 1989 ) .
26 The effect of the Janata Dal split , and the earlier withdrawal of support by the BJP , had a major impact on a number of state governments , although no Chief Ministers actually fell during November as a result of the events at the centre .
27 For example , in the 1890s new office machines such as typewriters and calculating machines had a major impact on the day-to-day operations of businesses .
28 In the past the harvesting of seabirds for food and the predation by animals introduced by humans had a major impact on seabird colonies .
29 It is true that the oil crisis dealt an important blow to the functioning of the system and had a major impact on the form and timing of the crisis — constituting a trigger for the crash which separates the period of overheating from the subsequent one of mass unemployment and stagnation .
30 Television has , nevertheless , had a noticeable impact on the ways many Members use the procedures of the House .
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