Example sentences of "a [adj] influence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , this earlier population mixing would have represented a leukaemogenic influence — and in a part of the town in which shortly afterwards a second and different type of mixing was occasioned by the oil industry . |
| 2 | He or she is not nowadays very likely to feature in the book you may write , but the idea lies at the heart of detective fiction and still exercises a subtle influence . |
| 3 | The main trouble with the scheme is that we can not be sure that an apparent X effect is not due to a differential influence of some extraneous factor(s) on the S 1 and S 2 groups . |
| 4 | In the dedication of his book , Fodor says that the following remark by the psycholinguist Merrill Garrett had a strong influence on his thesis : ‘ |
| 5 | Although conventional , Crossman 's technique , dazzling for the time , shines through many of Stone 's records , notably ‘ Tiger Rag ’ from 1934 , where it is obvious that the American clarinettist Jimmy Dorsey had had a strong influence on him . |
| 6 | An inter-regnum was filled by her boyfriend , Nick Rosen , a freelance journalist , who is widely believed by friends and former associates to have a strong influence on Katharine 's decision-making . |
| 7 | In particular , he was a strong influence on Alcuin , who probably drafted Charlemagne 's Admonitio Generalis . |
| 8 | One , a strong influence on her while she was in France , was her maternal grandmother , Antoinette duchess of Guise , a woman of formidable personality who seems to have regarded membership of the house of Guise as a distinctly higher form of life than membership of the French royal family . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the grandmother was a strong influence . |
| 10 | There was a strong influence from his parents pushing John towards an interest in ballet . |
| 11 | He accepts that his contrary nature sometimes irritated the other members but feels his sacking contained an element of Gedge wanting to remove a strong influence from the group , an influence often opposed to his own . |
| 12 | These reactions may fade over time , but at the moment they are still quite a strong influence in Zimbabwean society . |
| 13 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 14 | Faith is better caught than taught and the example of a parent is a strong influence even while teenagers seem to be rejecting what you taught them . |
| 15 | The medieval element was a strong influence too : as a result , my mother was cajoled into making me a suede money bag with a draw-string and five polished threepenny bits for sovereigns . |
| 16 | Brooks has always been a strong influence in the stability market , evidenced by the long-term success of the Chariot . |
| 17 | Finally , an important point to note is that the person who actually deals with the customer , at the point of sale , may have a strong influence over or even control the credit transaction . |
| 18 | At present the NPN and the Federal Government have access to , or a strong influence in , national radio and television networks and six daily newspapers . |
| 19 | He had acquired a strong influence over his brother John in their work for the Company and in saving him from bankruptcy . |
| 20 | They can have a strong influence on training programmes and the equipment used for training , including simulators . |
| 21 | Equally , when it came to promotion to captain in the Mediterranean fleet , interest was obviously a strong influence upon the admiral , for he remarks in July 1799 that ‘ Adam Drummond came to me yesterday . |
| 22 | His thoughts are random and rambling , not intense but swift and changeable , often involuntary ( as he remembers incidents at home ) and often compelling ( as he regrets the passing of Duckwich , a strong influence on him ) . |
| 23 | Though the Treaty of Kanghwa had stated Korea to be independent , the concept of a tributary relationship remained significant in thinking in both China and Korea , and during the early decades of the Meiji period China maintained a strong influence in the peninsula , being closely identified with the more conservative element whose dominance was resented by so many Japanese . |
| 24 | Categorising types of writing is not easy , but there is good evidence to suggest that the type of writing attempted has a strong influence on the outcome . |
| 25 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 26 | But jazz vocalism — and with it this kind of tension — has been a strong influence on popular singing , from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra down to many recent performers . |
| 27 | Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation . |
| 28 | These trends are potentially very important because the number of people in a household and the composition of the households — in terms of such characteristics as sex , age and relationships to each other — both have a strong influence on the preferred type and location of housing accommodation . |
| 29 | The above reference to large and powerful retail chains implies that they can exert a strong influence in the marketplace . |
| 30 | Nevertheless South Africa 's 650,000 Muslims have a strong influence , mainly through their militant youth movements . |