Example sentences of "that impinge on " in BNC.

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1 A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ .
2 For instance , I can see that writing this book is a function of my job and as such is part of the responsibility of earning a living , but it is also an escape for me , a kind of haven to which I can take refuge from the hundred and one pressures that impinge on the practical business of living .
3 This chapter attempts to raise some of the contextual issues that impinge on the inner-city debate .
4 The assessment was based on Neuman 's model , which examines the stresses that impinge on an individual 's equilibrium .
5 So that even if a proprietor or advertiser does not exert undue pressure , there are other forces that impinge on the ‘ freedom ’ of an editor and a newspaper .
6 The lack of a determiner before these nouns makes them generic , and so makes us feel that the human forces that impinge on Titus 's life are vague and insubstantial .
7 This section highlights some of the principal types of variation between places that impinge on their economic performance and social problems .
8 Conflict is thus blamed on bad management , lack of leadership , poor communication , or ‘ bloody-mindedness ’ on the part of individuals or interest groups that impinge on the organisation .
9 an extensive series of semi-structured interviews of senior members of the accounting profession and its institutions , members of other interested bodies that impinge on accounting ( eg civil servants , parliamentarians , lawyers , trade unionists , financiers and industrialists ) .
10 Its main substantive concern will be with young people , with the social institutions with which they interact ( eg family , education , labour market ) and the practices and policies that impinge on them .
11 In the UK , as the new system of regulation is being put in place at a time of considerable liberalisation in financial markets it is difficult to separate the different factors that impinge on market efficiency .
12 There are so many ways in which we are conditioned by people or events that impinged on our early lives .
13 In this , the companies were aided and abetted both by the dislocating and isolating processes that impinged on the people who came to their villages and by the key agents in both pits and communities ( the buttymen and the Spencer group ) who contrived a particular mixture of deference , self-interest and non-political association in the locally-constructed significant reality of the working people .
14 There must be doubt as to whether the Government fully intended the severity of the monetary squeeze and the massive rise in the real exchange rate that impinged on the economy in those years , but it is not possible to overstate the economic shock that hit industry in 1979–1981 .
15 And , along the way , Harry had chanced upon a minor mystery that impinged on his own past .
16 Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted .
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