Example sentences of "[verb] a major influence " in BNC.

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1 It should be said that he provided a major influence on inspiration in the development of the Division 's work in this area .
2 In operational day-to-day terms the Bank of England has a major influence on three major markets , the sterling money market , the foreign exchange market , and the gilt-edged market .
3 In some of these cases the company may be the market leader , that is to say it has the largest single share of the market and because of this has a major influence on market prices and product design .
4 The ALA has had a major influence in redesigning the police recruitment forms , which have gone through three drafts since the Met tried to interest Labour councils in their campaign to attract more ethnic minority officers .
5 There is no doubt that the growth and authority of employers ' associations has had a major influence both upon the development and the direction of collective bargaining in many countries .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom .
10 To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere .
11 Other economic unions , some short-lived and some longer-lived , in Africa , Asia and the Americas , have had a modicum of influence locally , but none can be said to have had a major influence in global terms .
12 They found this to be so worthwhile that , on their return from exile , synagogue worship continued and became a major influence in religious life .
13 This perspective , I have argued , forms a major influence on Dicey 's views on sovereignty .
14 Time has moved on since you first started dealing with someone who has become a major influence in your life and now you need to re-work your thoughts and opinions .
15 The effect of energy efficiency improvements will have a major influence on the changing pattern of demand in the years to the end of the century .
16 Certainly the technical aspects of accounting can have a major influence when comparing the cost of one unit of activity with another .
17 Care also needs to be exercised when choosing a particular case management approach , to examine the existing service context into which it is to be placed since this can have a major influence on the success of the service .
18 His theology , nonetheless , was to have a major influence upon atonement thinking , and helped to shape modern thought .
19 Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements .
20 Against a background of inherited susceptibility , diet , particularly one that is high in animal fat , seems to have a major influence on the development of colorectal cancer .
21 Henley will continue to have a major influence on management development worldwide in the 1990s .
22 The UK remains a major influence in the communications business and is the undoubted European leader in electronics information systems with 15% of world markets , second only to the US .
23 Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas .
24 Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas .
25 Another Director-General whose vision of broadcasting had a major influence in a period of important change in social attitudes was Hugh Greene , who oversaw a more liberal interpretation of ‘ public service ’ in the 1960s .
26 Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme .
27 During the period of dominance he identifies three distinct ways through which psychodynamic theories had a major influence on social work .
28 For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country .
29 This led to serious confrontations in steel , coal and the railways , on which the government had a major influence .
30 It is obvious that wound dressings have a major influence on the micro-environment of the wound .
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