Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] influence upon the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be done by giving the electorate a more direct influence upon the policies adopted in the locality ’ . |
| 2 | Mother 's education has a more marked influence upon the survival of children aged 1–4 years than upon infants since , at these older ages , the biological and physiological factors are less influential and social and economic conditions become the more important determinants of health and mortality . |
| 3 | A feature of early denudation chronology was that it tended to concentrate upon particular areas and that the record deduced for those areas tended to exercise an unduly significant influence upon the way in which new areas were interpreted . |
| 4 | Or as Krafft-Ebing put it , ‘ The sexual functions of men exercise a very marked influence upon the development and preservation of character ’ , so that manliness and self reliance were not the qualities which one would expect from the ‘ impotent onanist ’ . |
| 5 | True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted . |
| 6 | This involved the introduction of centralised procedural agreements for dispute settlement and the associations were also a very significant influence upon the adoption of industry-wide agreements on pay and hours ( Clegg , 1979 ) . |