Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been a [adj] factor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Glyn and Sutcliffe ( 1972 ) argued that low profits have been a major factor in low levels of investment in the UK . |
| 4 | If these outcomes had not been possible , would protest by sufficient members have been a significant factor in determining that the organisation had acted contrary to its constitutive treaty ? |
| 5 | The explosion of television outlets has been a key factor in this trend . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most recently , societies ' ambitions to expand and diversify their operations have been a key factor behind the major package of new legislation introduced into Parliament in 1986 . |
| 8 | The failure to specify clearly the timing of important events has been a limiting factor in research , since it has not allowed predisposing factors to be distinguished from precipitating events . |