Example sentences of "[been] [art] [adj] factor " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the police crackdown which has been the crucial factor . |
| 2 | And certainly n the case of Holland 's subsequent defeat by Switzerland , that may have been the crucial factor . |
| 3 | The support of 90% of blacks for Carter , even though he was a white Southerner , may well have been the crucial factor in his victory . |
| 4 | Lack of incentives , bureaucratic mismanagement and other well-publicized ills of the Soviet economy may bear much of the responsibility for the disparity between the superpowers , but Robert Paarlberg 's Food Trade and Foreign Policy confirms that climate has been the chief factor : |
| 5 | The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives . |
| 6 | However , to such countries the fact that the Fund has agreed domestic programmes as a condition for loans has often been the key factor in encouraging lending by banks and other private sector organizations . |
| 7 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 8 | But his power-broking behind the scenes has been the decisive factor in bringing uncommitted , but conservative-inclined deputies to heel . |
| 9 | Confidence has been the critical factor in England 's success these past two years . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It has been the critical factor in deciding to make our investment here in Wrexham rather than elsewhere . ’ |
| 11 | However , for the majority of those that eventually retired early , redundancy appears to have been the deciding factor . |
| 12 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 13 | However , the determination of the drug barons to avoid extradition to the United States on drug charges was generally considered to have been the major factor behind the offer to surrender . |
| 14 | The SLORC regime had been eager to attract foreign investment ; this was thought to have been the major factor in its decision to proceed with the election . |
| 15 | Concern about nephrotoxicity has been the major factor limiting more widespread investigational use of cyclosporin in ulcerative colitis . |
| 16 | There 's no doubt it has been the major factor in walkers having accidents . ’ |
| 17 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 18 | Though there may have been some hostility between the victuallers and the non-victuallers , this can hardly have been the only factor involved . |
| 19 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 20 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 21 | In fact , he believes that the formation of C&P has in the event been a powerful factor in enabling research to be rationalized throughout the whole ICI Group . |
| 22 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 23 | For all these reasons multi-employer bargaining came to predominate in non-manufacturing industries and , more exceptionally , elsewhere in the concentrated industries of basic steel and the railways where government intervention seems to have been a decisive factor in shaping the bargaining process ( Livernash , 1963 ) . |
| 24 | Diabetics tend to have higher serum cholesterol levels than non-diabetes ( Santen et al , 1972 ) , and the old diabetic diet only recently abandoned may have been a contributing factor . |
| 25 | Voodoo has been a contributing factor in many horrendous incidences in the United Kingdom in recent years . |
| 26 | Experts believe the anaesthetic propofol ‘ may have been a contributing factor ’ in the deaths . |
| 27 | A hospital spokeswoman said : ‘ The bacteria may have been a contributing factor in these deaths . |
| 28 | The explosion of television outlets has been a key factor in this trend . |
| 29 | Bracewell has been a three-times loser in FA Cup finals , but this season his vault of knowledge has been a key factor — especially in the recovery at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea . |
| 30 | Rugby , five times the cup-winners , were their second-round victims , Brian 's brother , Robert , having been a key factor in the first-round dismissal of the holders , Shrewsbury . |