Example sentences of "[pron] can influence the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , even if you draw a blank , it is always worth checking to see whether or not you can influence the external event that starts the sequence , so either while you are being hindered by an unproductive feeling or after an experience where you were hindered ask yourself : ‘ What external event has triggered this feeling ? ’ |
| 3 | I often think that our sociological relationships are like an action in which each person is a small knot so that we can influence the common situation in four directions . |
| 4 | Encouraging local managers to use their entrepreneurial and leadership qualities by contributing to the corporate planning and decision-making structure ; in other words , they can influence the future of services if they can convince colleagues and seniors that such change is justified across the organization , but they can not do whatever they want without authority |
| 5 | It provides links between businesses and students so that students know what the businesses need and the businesses know how they can influence the schools . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sir Frank added that Britain had no ‘ power to do anything other than see if it can influence the French or whichever country it may be . |
| 8 | From the group 's perspective , it desires to be involved where it can influence the final shape of a policy so that it maximizes the benefits and minimizes the losses to its members . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As for the slogan that man is master of his fate , no doubt it has its uses in combating a fatalism which could contract still further the limits within which he can influence the spontaneous by reason and will . |
| 11 | An instance of the mentality of these activists can be seen in a letter to the autumn number of the magazine from Malcolm Shifrin , who asks how he can influence the great majority of members who do not vote . |
| 12 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 13 | 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 . |