Example sentences of "[verb] influence [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , the firm 's managers were able to obtain influence over the banks , not only in Bihać but also in Sarajevo . |
| 2 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 3 | Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice . |
| 4 | Odd as the label sounds , this group has influence beyond its size . |
| 5 | By the end of 1935 they were quite prepared to abandon their former ILP allies in the hope of gaining influence with the 400,000 individua1 members of the Labour Party . |
| 6 | Reports in the Guardian and the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 23 claimed , however , that Saudi Arabia was eager to prevent Iraqi Shia Moslems based in Iran , especially those belonging to the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq ( SAIRI ) under Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , from gaining influence amongst Iraqis . |
| 7 | The Party was particularly concerned with gaining influence among the unemployed and was working with the NUWM as early as 1931 . |
| 8 | ( The proportion of those with a formal education ascribing influence to the government was lower than that in the United States and in Britain , albeit still a majority among the university-educated ) . |
| 9 | Their opportunity to discredit the reformers and gain influence with the king came in the late 1530s . |
| 10 | Individual members gain influence by becoming acknowledged experts in a particular sphere of government and on other issues will tend to accept the cues provided by their colleagues who are experts in that particular policy area . |
| 11 | The baseball fan at the beginning of the century — free of the possibly inhibiting influence of women spectators and close enough to the playing field in those tiny ball parks to take immediate action against erring players or umpires — was , by all accounts , an abysmal churl . |
| 12 | while Labour under Clement Attlee was able to wield influence in the coalition government . |
| 13 | Avia , drawing influence from Soviet art of the 20s and 30s |
| 14 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 15 | Mr Gaviria has sensibly decided to operate at arm 's length , seeking influence through private meetings with all sides . |
| 16 | ( Christian belief was the forming influence of the law of equity which , in part , has to do with those legal ‘ persons ’ unable to help themselves . ) |
| 17 | In San Cosme , as elsewhere in Mexico , union leaders have an important say in job placements in factories and can exert influence on behalf of their members at regional and national levels . |
| 18 | ‘ It is important for the churches to realise that in a pluralistic , secularised society they can not exert influence by moral or dogmatic dictates ’ , the report stressed . |
| 19 | In October , however , Turkey , hoping to gain territory from Russia and to reinforce her flagging influence in the Balkans , had entered the war on the side of the Central Powers . |
| 20 | Both the security forces and the death squads have renewed their campaign of intimidation against trade unions and popular organizations which had begun to regroup and regain influence during the Duarte period . |
| 21 | The further the office , the party and the seats of government were removed from the home and family influence , the less able were women to exercise influence upon the male public world as they had formerly done . |
| 22 | People also obey orders given by these managers because it is the leader 's position to exercise influence in the organisation . |
| 23 | Therefore a governor or an executive director exerts influence in accordance with the economic importance of the area he or she represents . |
| 24 | The research hypothesis is that each of these aspects exerts influence upon and is in turn influenced by the other two , and the project is designed to establish the precise nature of the inter-relationship . |
| 25 | The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons . |
| 26 | Religious propaganda could also be exploited : an inscription ( IGi 3 9 ) shows that Athens , probably in the 450s , made an alliance with the Amphictyonic League , in other words , she was continuing Themistokles ' policy of trying to win influence at Delphi . |
| 27 | It provides a weighty diplomatic instrument in an overall European policy aimed at maximising influence over that part of Europe which the USSR does not control . |
| 28 | But again the monetary authorities do not control these variables directly ; instead they are able to exert influence over their chosen targets via their control of instruments . |
| 29 | Gray explained his decision in terms of wishing to exert influence over the next generation of black leaders , to earn a higher salary , and to spend more time with his family and his local Baptist church . |
| 30 | And it was equally insistent that a policy of retreat would cause dismay in Washington , thereby diminishing Britain 's ability to exert influence over American policy . |