Example sentences of "effect upon [art] " in BNC.

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1 In his essay in Salmagundi , Robert Scholes argues that conservatives desire a common curriculum — any common curriculum — because this would have a unifying effect upon a society that suffers from an excess of pluralism , and this unifying effect , an achieved cultural consensus , would in itself be a good thing for the country socially and politically .
2 However , it is not the description of disability that matters , but rather its effect upon a person 's major life activities .
3 It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners .
4 Although the war had had , in the words of Winston Churchill , ‘ a sobering and concentrating effect upon a hitherto careless mind ’ he was still rigidly refused direct access to his father .
5 Clearly , there will be a wide overlap between the role of the environment in contributing to this external cause of a rhythm , its effect upon an organism 's behaviour , and its ability to adjust the body clock .
6 The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public .
7 I do emphasise this definition , which relies upon the influence upon the value of money being direct , being exercised upon particular prices ; for of course all economic policies have an effect upon the value of money and thus upon prices , including incomes .
8 They could have a profound effect upon the motor industry worldwide , since the standards can be met only with use of electric cars and alternative fuels .
9 It would be wrong to believe that the body clock develops only in response to a rhythmic environment and the effect upon the sleep/wake and feeding rhythms that this produces .
10 Managers may respond by devising routines which will improve the output results but these will have a dramatic effect upon the processes of education back through the school life of every child .
11 The politicians and bureaucrats at this level can have a profound effect upon the local people , and can obstruct , alter or intensify central government actions .
12 Given that ( irrationally and indefensibly , the reader must conclude ) Local Education Authorities varied wildly among themselves and within themselves in the scale of grammar-school provision , that variation had a powerful effect upon the preparation of the whole age group staying on at school to the age of seventeen .
13 How you look at someone , the attention you give them and your body language are all means of communication and can have a strong effect upon the recipient , even if he only perceives it on a subconscious level .
14 The librarian 's choice of booksellers has an important effect upon the selection of material as well as upon the speed and efficiency of acquisition .
15 The computer revolution may have a significant effect upon the way in which you are able to perform your job .
16 The Soviet debate of the 1920s was the first in history to face the problems of growth in a conscious manner , and they were not merely theoretical discussions since the results could have had a profound effect upon the actual outcome of events .
17 There is probably some truth in the commonsense view of many informants that the distribution of incomers ' residence has an effect upon the nature of social relations between Shetlanders and incomers .
18 While it is self-evident that childhood experiences must have a profound formative effect upon the beliefs we have about ourselves and upon our expectations of others , most of us fail to take them into account when we run into trouble later on in life .
19 All three elements have a significant effect upon the overall efficiency of any maintenance operation .
20 Whether this has any significant effect upon the vine 's growth has yet to be determined but it is true that the light in Champagne is exceptional for so northern a latitude .
21 The major factors to be taken into consideration when selecting a rootstock variety are : its suitability to the vinestock on which it is to be grafted ; its suitability to the geographical location and to climate ; solumological effects ; and the effect upon the quality and character of the fruit produced .
22 Since the introduction of American rootstocks , however , the impaired circulatory effect upon the sap inflicted by the grafting wound reduces a vine 's potential age to about thirty-five years , the most productive of which are those between ten and twenty-five years .
23 The dawn of the philosophical Enlightenment had almost no effect upon the average European who still tilled his feudal strip and grazed his animals on the common land .
24 Just as the new physics of Einstein will have such a devastating effect upon the philosophy of the twentieth century , so it is the physics of Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) that so fires the imagination of the aristocratic intelligentsia .
25 Merely using stronger chemical bonds will have a small effect upon the strength of a cracked material by comparison with the stress concentrating effect of the crack and this is why diamond and sapphire are brittle and usually not especially strong , in spite of their hardness and high chemical bond energies .
26 It has no emotional effect upon the reader because it does n't show how the poet came to these conclusions .
27 Even those governments that were in the vanguard of the urging for greater union were guilty at times of dragging their heels when OEEC proposals and policies seemed likely to have an adverse effect upon the national economy .
28 Further opposition came from those who , no matter how much they might desire British association with their ambitions , saw a free trade area as a retrograde step , and feared its adverse effect upon the ultimate goal of political unity .
29 Indeed it could be argued that a family crisis ( for example the suicide of a father ) is bound to have a long term effect upon the child .
30 The Night Goblin just hangs on and has no effect upon the Squig 's determination .
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