Example sentences of "have be a major factor " in BNC.
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| 1 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 2 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 3 | The repeated use of this road to power has been a major factor in perpetuating primitive beliefs in ‘ gods ’ and superstitions within the human race . |
| 4 | Furthermore , ERM membership has effectively disciplined many EC governments unable to cure inflation for themselves ; this has been a major factor in the creation of prosperity in Western Europe . |
| 5 | In social security there is the retirement condition , which governs the receipt of the state retirement pension and which has been a major factor in the establishment of the pension ages as the customary retirement ages for men and women ( Walker 1980 ) . |
| 6 | This has been a major factor in the stability which Spencer Stuart has achieved in its offices . |
| 7 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 8 | To date , given the inadequate levels of state pension provision and the limited opportunities most women have had to save or invest for old age , their limited access to occupational pension scheme membership has been a major factor in the construction of female poverty in old age . |
| 9 | While the rationale for the arm 's length approach , as well as the length of the arm , varies widely from organization to organization , the desire to distance important areas of public administration from direct political control has been a major factor in the twentieth-century growth of quasi-government . |
| 10 | Sam shares a laugh with Suzanne Danielle , who has been a major factor in his return to form |
| 11 | They suggest that public expenditure growth has led to a transfer of productive resources from the private sector to a public sector producing largely non-marketed output , and that this has been a major factor in the UK 's poor performance in the post-war period . |
| 12 | This , coupled with growth in the overall market , has been a major factor behind the increase in profit for the division as a whole . |
| 13 | where There , the growth of Milton Keynes has been a major factor , but smaller towns have also felt the pressures of development . |
| 14 | According to their former captain and hooker , Douglas Livingstone , McPherson 's influence both on and off the field has been a major factor in what has been a very successful season . |
| 15 | The growth of overseas financial institutions in terms of their numbers has been a major factor in the formalisation of supervision with more emphasis on the ‘ rulebook ’ and a relative decline in the less formal traditional system . |
| 16 | He called on their respective governments to cut their public spending by up to 18 per cent , to exercise monetary restraint ( banknote issuing by local authorities having been a major factor in the inflationary spiral of the previous year ) , and to co-operate more fully with national policy decisions . |
| 17 | The increasing processing and chemicalization of our food and drink appears to have been a major factor in the rise of chronic disease in this country in the past three to four decades by causing much chemical stress on the body and its inner metabolic balances . |
| 18 | It is somewhat paradoxical that structural shift does not appear to have been a major factor in productivity growth after the war , because it is well known that structural imbalances contributed substantially to unemployment between the wars . |
| 19 | In archaeological literature , goods imported in small quantities have often been studied under the general term of ‘ prestige goods ’ , and , as such , control over these resources appears to have been a major factor in the rise and fall of early social hierarchies ( Friedman and Rowlands 1977 ) . |
| 20 | Individual union policy seems to have been a major factor behind signing technology agreements , most of which derive from four white collar unions : APEX ( general clerical union ) , ASTMS ( general technical and supervisory union ) , NALGO ( local government staff ) and TASS ( technical staff in engineering ) . |
| 21 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |
| 22 | The Algiers accord of 1975 , whose repudiation by Iraq had been a major factor precipitating the Iraq-Iran war in 1980 , gave both countries access to the Shatt-al Arab waterway . |
| 23 | Glyn and Sutcliffe ( 1972 ) argued that low profits have been a major factor in low levels of investment in the UK . |