Example sentences of "has had a major [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament .
2 As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I believe that our membership of the ERM has had a major influence on the recession in the United Kingdom .
7 And his wife Marion , 37 , has had a major cancer op .
8 The reduction in the cash available for people to spend due to the April 1988 social security changes and the highest interest rates ever ( enhanced by the multiplier effect ) , has had a major effect on the local economy , in reducing demand for locally produced goods and services .
9 Whether commissioned as a promotional tool or not , the showing of such films has had a major effect on the outside world 's perception of Edinburgh .
10 The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact .
11 Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford .
12 Remembrement — the government sponsored reorganisation of land to produce larger fields and rationalised farms — has had a major impact on agricultural productivity and intensification in many parts of the French lowlands over the last few decades .
13 This recognition has had a major impact , not only in the ecological field but also in that of Earth Mysteries .
14 The Franks Report has had a major impact on critical analysis of tribunals .
15 Initial results from the first phase of the research ( summer 1986 ) show that the police are sticking very closely to the new rules and that this has had a major impact in the way CID officers conduct investigations .
16 There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place .
17 MRI has had a major impact on the diagnosis of primary and secondary tumours within the central nervous system .
18 Nevertheless , concern about the loss of agricultural land has had a major impact on development plans , on planning decisions , and on appeal decisions .
19 While the Thatcher government has had a major policy aim of controlling public expenditure and has used the block-grant regime and rate-capping to that end , centrally imposed financial controls not only infringe the rights of elected councillors to determine local spending needs and priorities but also undermine accountability to local ratepayers .
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