Example sentences of "have had a [adj] influence on " 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 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 .
4 I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom .
5 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 .
6 In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England .
7 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 .
8 The complexity of modern technology has had an important influence on the scale of life in modern society .
9 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 .
10 Conflict in the employment relationship has had an important influence on theories of industrial relations .
11 I suggest that the discrepancy between the climate modelling results which indicate seasonal temperature extremes , and the increasing body of geological information documenting a temperate climate , may be explained by the fact that the palaeogeography used in the models does not take into account the existence of these lakes and rivers , which would have had a major influence on the regional climate .
12 Therefore , Leapor may have had a considerable influence on the choice of poems to be printed .
13 Later these people reached all the inhabited areas of the Pacific and possibly America , it having been argued that they may have had a considerable influence on the rain-forest peoples of the New World , evidence coming from great similarities between certain groups in Borneo and central America , similarities greater than between these peoples and their geographic neighbours .
14 However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change .
15 if given at the trial , the evidence would probably have had an important influence on the result of the case ; and
16 By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive .
17 This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 .
18 Pragmatic instrumentalist thought would appear to have had a significant influence on the general intellectual milieu in which Jennings and Robson worked .
19 He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it .
20 Although conventional , Crossman 's technique , dazzling for the time , shines through many of Stone 's records , notably ‘ Tiger Rag ’ from 1934 , where it is obvious that the American clarinettist Jimmy Dorsey had had a strong influence on him .
21 They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale .
22 Hobbes had had a considerable influence on Spinoza .
23 Before addressing this question I must turn aside to summarise two decisions , which have had a powerful influence on the shape of the present proceedings .
24 The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art .
25 Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms .
26 To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere .
27 Consequently , developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations .
28 Yet these movements undoubtedly have had a profound influence on Western political culture , especially in Germany and southern Europe where cold war attitudes are less deeply embedded and political processes have been more decentralised .
29 Results from the project have had a direct influence on the development of a new model of human memory .
30 Arguments are put forward to show their importance to an understanding of the relationship of women to the home , and to suggest that they have had a significant influence on British architecture .
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