Example sentences of "[noun] can influence the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different methods can influence the difficulty of test items and so the precision in the criterion statement may still prove illusory . |
| 2 | Most of the rain which reaches rivers and lakes has first passed over vegetation and through soils , so the land use and soil type can influence the acidity of water courses . |
| 3 | there 's no way that the , the , the committee can influence the club like that . |
| 4 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 5 | It is clear that the presence or absence of a check can influence the technique of the player . |
| 6 | The extent of sample crystallinity can influence the behaviour of a polymer sample greatly . |
| 7 | There are two other ways in which expectations can influence the demand for money , and make it more unstable . |
| 8 | Each has its own momentum that critically affects how much developing country governments can influence the outcomes . |
| 9 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 10 | For whether knowingly or unknowingly , through fact or fiction , their stories can influence the traveller 's choice of destination . |
| 11 | Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems . |
| 12 | Additionally , animal studies have shown that monaural occlusion early in development can influence the development of auditory receptive fields in the central nervous system . |
| 13 | However , pH can influence the outcome of competition , with acidic conditions selecting for acetogenesis , and it is possible therefore that the luminal pH in the colon is important in this respect . |
| 14 | Debt management policy can influence the shape of the yield curve . |
| 15 | We have established that rational expectations per se do not imply policy ineffectiveness , for when rational expectations are combined with alternative models of the macroeconomy systematic policy can influence the behaviour of output and allow the authorities to undertake stabilization policies . |
| 16 | Although at the political level it would seem that the Keynesian position has been relegated , at the theoretical ( and practical ) level it is maintained that fiscal policy can influence the achievement of the objectives of government policy . |
| 17 | Together , Nicholson and Hofmann developed an impressive family of aromatic dyestuffs , and — even though the structure of benzene was still uncertain — began to understand how chemical constitution can influence the colour of compounds . |
| 18 | The conditions for perfect competition are that : ( a ) there should be many small firms producing identical products ( so that no individual firm can influence the price of the product or the wage rate ) ; ( b ) there should be many individual workers ( so that no one of them can influence the wage rate ) ; ( c ) there should be perfect mobility of all factors of production ; ( d ) all labour and jobs should be homogeneous ; ( e ) there should be perfect information on the part of all buyers and sellers ; ( f ) wages and prices should be perfectly flexible , upwards and downwards . |
| 19 | It means that man can influence the events of heaven . |
| 20 | And in any case , this sort of information will hardly prove the point in question ; for while it is true enough that capital can influence the filling of government posts , the formation of foreign policy and so on , this simply shows that the state is swayed by an interest group which may be one among many . |
| 21 | Although the sea is a much more stable environment than the air and the habitat enjoyed by land animals , fluctuations occur which have a special influence on the shore , where the extremes are greater , and cold air temperatures can influence the fauna in winter , and the concentrated rays of the sun can make some pools uninhabitable during the summer . |
| 22 | Subsequent studies have supported the hypothesis that population mixing can influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia . |
| 23 | Discourse is reciprocal when there is at least a potential for interaction , when the sender can monitor reception and adjust to it — or , to put it another way , where the receiver can influence the development of what is being said . |
| 24 | We are monitoring the entire town to find out how preventative measures can influence the way people live . |
| 25 | Previous investigations have demonstrated how provision of emotionally relevant information can influence the way people interpret their own behaviour and in turn whether they respond emotionally or non-emotionally to a given situation . |
| 26 | Clearly , resource factors can influence the balance of theory and practice in some subjects , but other responses indicated that ‘ internal ’ subject factors and student preferences may be important also : |
| 27 | In the first part of his argument , Plekhanov allows that the psychological characteristics of individual actors can influence the course of historical events . |
| 28 | Since a measure 's legal basis in the Treaty of Rome can influence the voting rules applied in the Council , legal disputes on such matters may call for resolution by the European Court . |
| 29 | First , because formal institutionalized procedures generally attract more publicity than informal ones , the outcome of individual cases can influence the outcome of a large number of other complaints ( or potential complaints ) . |
| 30 | As long as bosses can influence the careers of subordinates , this filtering or laundering of communication to present only the positive side of ourselves will continue . |