Example sentences of "[noun] have a [adj] impact [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear from all those in the industry that the recession has a devastating impact on emloyment and on the ability to train . |
| 2 | Little evidence , sceptics argue , has been adduced to support the claim that such teaching has a significant impact in reducing prejudice . |
| 3 | Since the bulk of the tea at the Calcutta auctions is low medium quality , the dual auction has a disproportionate impact on tea prices generally , and on London prices especially . |
| 4 | The answer which is usually proffered is a variant of the ‘ snapshot ’ argument : the stock of capital is so large in comparison with variations in the relevant flows that it would take a timespan considerably longer than the Keynesian short run for variations in the rate of net investment to have a significant impact on the size of the stock of capital . |
| 5 | After World War II , the motor car had a significant impact on the travelling public , and lorries and buses took a considerable amount of business from the railway , so it was inevitable that the railway management , casting a critical eye over branch line expenditure , however scenic , considered most of these rural lines as financially unviable . |
| 6 | Charity schools had a negligible impact in areas where child employment opportunities were widespread . |
| 7 | His work had a practical impact in industry , and also affected attitudes to materialism . |
| 8 | Freud 's theory of the death wish finds a parallel in the schizophrenic experiences described by R. D. Laing , whose work had a significant impact on a number of novelists of the period ( see section 6.2 below ) . |
| 9 | Comte 's work had a significant impact in Britain . |
| 10 | Their work had a considerable impact on both the thinking and the practice of social research , including some of the highly mathematised branches of social research . |
| 11 | The rise of this new landholding stratum had a drastic impact upon the Russian peasantry . |
| 12 | Two of the measures enacted by the 1986 Social Security Act had a significant impact on women by reversing the main attempts of the 1975 scheme to begin , albeit very slowly , to adjust state pensions to the economic experiences of women . |
| 13 | With nationalized industries accounting for more than 25 per cent of the country 's non-housing investment ( compared with less than 10 per cent in the United States and Japan ) , the efficiency of the public sector had a considerable impact throughout the whole of the economy . |
| 14 | Taking into account the Society 's view on the operation of the mobility clause and its own survey , the EOC found that the mobility requirement had a disproportionate impact on women applicants and found it indirectly discriminatory contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 15 | Of course , the development of the internal combustion engine had a huge impact on travel . |
| 16 | The massive bombing campaign launched against Iraq by the US-led coalition during January and February had a devastating impact on the country 's infrastructure . |
| 17 | We have seen that retirement has a differential impact on older people which depends primarily on their prior socio-economic status and the access which this grants to resources which might be carried into retirement . |
| 18 | What then are the real prospects for multimedia having a serious impact on school education ? |
| 19 | If there is any truth in the observation that , in many things , Britain tends to follow one step behind the United States , then we might expect the single interest group to have a real impact in this country in the future . |
| 20 | To this information about Asia Marx added knowledge of the Inca which he had gathered from Prescott 's famous study , The Conquest of Peru , a remarkable book which came out in 1847 and whose instant fame had a dramatic impact on nineteenth-century thought . |
| 21 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 22 | Overall pre-tax profits for the group jumped 184pc to £25.3m last year from £8.9m in 1991 , when the Gulf War had a severe impact on the travel industry . |
| 23 | Indeed , an organisation 's communications structure and climate have a massive impact on workers , particularly in times of change . |
| 24 | It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits . |
| 25 | THE COLOUR OF FLOORING HAS A GREAT IMPACT ON A ROOM , SO IT 'S VITAL TO GET IT RIGHT . |
| 26 | Both treatments had a significant impact on problems , with results slightly favouring behavioural/cognitive methods . |
| 27 | Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ . |
| 28 | For example , in the 1890s new office machines such as typewriters and calculating machines had a major impact on the day-to-day operations of businesses . |
| 29 | Again , in the 1930s the widespread introduction of punched-card machines had a dramatic impact on commerce , and helped to shape much of the accounting practice of today 's businesses . |
| 30 | There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests . |