Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] influence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such favours were the cement of county politics , creating and maintaining political influence , for the Scottish gentry had long memories , both for kindness and injury , and if the latter was rarely , if ever , forgiven , neither was a favour forgotten . |
| 2 | Forceful individuals might use the prestige of the patriarchate to wield political influence , but this only disguised the decline in the political weight of the Church . |
| 3 | Studies that have examined parental influences on children 's eating patterns have shown that parents have a significant influence . |
| 4 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 5 | Often , too , they seem to see social influences as qualifying and controlling a biologically given potential . |
| 6 | An illustration should make this influence clear . |
| 7 | Visits to Hungary and Czechoslovakia by Soares in late 1989 indicated an intention to acquire some influence in the transformed Eastern Europe and to seize fresh economic opportunities . |
| 8 | The Senate investigation also included the case of Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato ( Rep. , New York ) who had been accused by a political opponent of using improper influence on behalf of political contributors and friends in federal housing programmes [ see above for HUD scandal ] . |
| 9 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 10 | If the Labour Party , if the Labour Party want our money then we want some influence and we do n't , and we , and if they do n't want to represent the views of our members they can do without our money . |
| 11 | Three point one okay so this is where the model , in effect what we 've done which is a very crude way , right , of erm incorporating exogamous influences , right , we have n't said tha that the war is going to affect the income or price elasticity what we did do , right , all that we 're doing is that we 're allowing the intercept of our model to change , right , now as a result , we 've got , we can prove the st the statistical significance of all the variables in our model , right , the co the actual coefficients that we 've estimated have changed quite significant , particularly in the er the incoming elasticity , right , the incoming elasticity was less than one , right , and insignificance before was now greater than one and height of R squared has also increased dramatically our measure of explanatory power . |
| 12 | Its findings challenge traditional thinking about road safety education , suggesting that pre-licence training should include social influences on driving : the impact of parent , peer and passenger behaviour , drinking , music and mood . |
| 13 | Carl Rogers , the American psychologist , described this influence as ‘ the self . |
| 14 | Churchill returned to office in October 1951 determined to increase British influence within the Anglo-American partnership . |
| 15 | The war served to consolidate Japanese influence in both Korea and Manchuria . |
| 16 | It incorporates three influences : Roman , Byzantine and Romanesque . |
| 17 | Capitalists command disproportionate influence over state agencies and funding for public campaigns . |
| 18 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had been conquered from Sweden in the eighteenth century and incorporated as ‘ Baltic provinces ’ into the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century , although a German landowning and commercial class retained substantial influence . |
| 19 | The government was still the king 's government : the monarch retained great influence over the administration and to the end of the century expected to have a say , even a dominant say , in the making of policy . |
| 20 | But Japan has also begun to play a major foreign policy role , gaining great influence in the UN , the World Bank — and in the Third World , by virtue of its being the largest aid-giver . |
| 21 | Even if the Soviet Union is no longer able to give orders , it still has great influence , and Mr Shevardnadze is believed to have used this in calls to Prague , Warsaw and East Berlin . |
| 22 | In the attempt to provide good influences , officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts : to become friends with the boys , to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes ; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith ; above all , they were told , never ‘ miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them ’ . |
| 23 | Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 25 | The Bank of England which has less influence than its German counterpart has been reluctant to advise rate cuts over here . |
| 26 | This attitude of conflict by line towards staff management is more likely to occur where staff departments use tactics of their own to obtain more influence over line department operations . |
| 27 | Its director is also head of the GSS and as such has considerable influence over statistics throughout Whitehall . |
| 28 | Plant nutrients are derived in the most part from the decomposition of plant and animal remains , during which process they reach a peat-like structure that has remarkable powers of moisture absorption and retention , and at the same time has considerable influence on the physical texture and structure of the soil . |
| 29 | The selection of the method of purification of the wastes therefore has considerable influence on the plant costs . |
| 30 | The third National Government , after the resignation of the Liberal ministers , was hardly a coalition — although again Marquand shows that the non-Conservatives retained more influence upon it than their numbers alone would suggest . |