Example sentences of "can influence the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that the presence or absence of a check can influence the technique of the player . |
| 2 | Both of these cases , incest avoidance and the development of colour vocabularies , illustrate nicely how biological constraints in cognition , based on specific genes , can influence the formation of culture . |
| 3 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 4 | We have established that rational expectations per se do not imply policy ineffectiveness , for when rational expectations are combined with alternative models of the macroeconomy systematic policy can influence the behaviour of output and allow the authorities to undertake stabilization policies . |
| 5 | The extent of sample crystallinity can influence the behaviour of a polymer sample greatly . |
| 6 | However , as a strategic planning authority , it is through the Structure Plan process that it can influence the protection of natural resources such as peat lands , and the opportunity for this will arise in the current review of the Plan which will be available for public consultation in the New Year . |
| 7 | Together , Nicholson and Hofmann developed an impressive family of aromatic dyestuffs , and — even though the structure of benzene was still uncertain — began to understand how chemical constitution can influence the colour of compounds . |
| 8 | If organisations are pluralist in nature such that different groups and individuals can influence the decision-making process then we would expect competition between these groups who will represent different interests . |
| 9 | In contrast with feelings of subjective risk , authors dealing with estimates of risk have often regarded estimated risk as a multidimensional concept ( Glendon , 1987 ; Hale , 1987 ; Johnson & Tversky , 1984 ) in which context can influence the relevance of different dimensions . |
| 10 | Discourse is reciprocal when there is at least a potential for interaction , when the sender can monitor reception and adjust to it — or , to put it another way , where the receiver can influence the development of what is being said . |
| 11 | Additionally , animal studies have shown that monaural occlusion early in development can influence the development of auditory receptive fields in the central nervous system . |
| 12 | The conditions for perfect competition are that : ( a ) there should be many small firms producing identical products ( so that no individual firm can influence the price of the product or the wage rate ) ; ( b ) there should be many individual workers ( so that no one of them can influence the wage rate ) ; ( c ) there should be perfect mobility of all factors of production ; ( d ) all labour and jobs should be homogeneous ; ( e ) there should be perfect information on the part of all buyers and sellers ; ( f ) wages and prices should be perfectly flexible , upwards and downwards . |
| 13 | For example in the UK , the range of vocabulary can be indicative of level of education attained ; this can influence the type of job procured which determines economic bracket of income and in turn determines the person 's social class according to the Registrar-General 's classification ( p. 272 ) . |
| 14 | State administrative agencies thus feed off the results of interest-group pressure , and interest groups find in the administration multiple points of access through which they can influence the formulation of government policy . |
| 15 | Temperature changes also can influence the depth at which the fish swim . |
| 16 | In the first part of his argument , Plekhanov allows that the psychological characteristics of individual actors can influence the course of historical events . |
| 17 | Debt management policy can influence the shape of the yield curve . |
| 18 | We are monitoring the entire town to find out how preventative measures can influence the way people live . |
| 19 | Previous investigations have demonstrated how provision of emotionally relevant information can influence the way people interpret their own behaviour and in turn whether they respond emotionally or non-emotionally to a given situation . |
| 20 | Cells do exist that can influence the excitability of the cortical neurones , in the locus coeruleus and the raphe nucleus , deep within the brain . |
| 21 | Thus spin polarisation can influence the ability of a fusion device to contain a fuel . |
| 22 | Subsequent studies have supported the hypothesis that population mixing can influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia . |
| 23 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 24 | Although the sea is a much more stable environment than the air and the habitat enjoyed by land animals , fluctuations occur which have a special influence on the shore , where the extremes are greater , and cold air temperatures can influence the fauna in winter , and the concentrated rays of the sun can make some pools uninhabitable during the summer . |
| 25 | And in any case , this sort of information will hardly prove the point in question ; for while it is true enough that capital can influence the filling of government posts , the formation of foreign policy and so on , this simply shows that the state is swayed by an interest group which may be one among many . |
| 26 | Although at the political level it would seem that the Keynesian position has been relegated , at the theoretical ( and practical ) level it is maintained that fiscal policy can influence the achievement of the objectives of government policy . |
| 27 | However , there are many other radio stations around the country that can influence the success of your record , albeit only on a regional basis . |
| 28 | Different methods can influence the difficulty of test items and so the precision in the criterion statement may still prove illusory . |
| 29 | Recently , however , it has also been recognized that surface-water hydrology and climate variations can influence the evolution of individual silicic caldera-hosted geothermal systems , although it is difficult to judge the general importance of such effects in controlling the long-term behaviour of continental geothermal systems . |
| 30 | The last two points highlight the fact that economic problems and policies of major countries , e.g. , USA , Japan and West Germany , can influence the livelihoods of nations and people many thousands of miles away from policy-making centres . |