Example sentences of "single [adv] [adj] factor " in BNC.

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1 My own choice for the single most influential factor would be the decision of the Hungarian Government to subordinate its very clear obligations under an agreement with the GDR to its general duty under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 — a decision which blew a hole in the sealed frontiers of the GDR , and relegated to the past the comfortable slogans of the last three decades .
2 To see the leader enjoying God can be the single most helpful factor for a congregation to grow in this area .
3 The other single most important factor responsible for raising the standard of care was the recognition of venereology as a clinical specialty in its own right .
4 This is the single most important factor in effective book provision .
5 However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions .
6 Again and again we find this the single most important factor in church planting .
7 Stuart Christine , who teaches the new church planters ' programme at Spurgeon 's College , concluded after his initial research that the single most important factor in the planting of a new church is the calibre of the leader .
8 From a very young age I learned that my duty was the single most important factor in my life and that everything I did must be dedicated to it .
9 Best himself seems to have few doubts as to why he got the nod , citing the growing importance of the Divisional Championship as the single most important factor in his — and England 's — meteoric rise .
10 A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east .
11 For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems .
12 In his analysis Atkin ( 1979 ) points to the ‘ fragmentation of community ’ as the single most important factor feeding accountability pressures in the USA .
13 Lack of nutrients , rather than low temperature or incident radiation , is the single most important factor restricting primary production .
14 It is not our purpose to review these initiatives , merely to point out that this has been the single most important factor responsible for the change in budgetary climate in local government in recent years .
15 Bush stressed the importance of the family unit , and stated the view that its dissolution was the single most important factor in the growth of social problems .
16 Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , Ramos had given unswerving loyalty to Aquino , the single most important factor in enabling her to defeat numerous coup attempts .
17 Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , his unswerving loyalty was the single most important factor in Aquino 's defeat of the numerous coup attempts against her .
18 The single most important factor seems to be a preference on the part of all parties present for using Creole .
19 The transfer of goodwill is generally considered to be the single most important factor ( see Luckey v Hockley [ 1966 ] 2 KIR 17 ; Douglas v Merchants Facilities ( Glasgow ) Ltd [ 1966 ] 1 ITR 374 ; Seymour v Barber and Heron [ 1970 ] 5 ITR 65 ; Bonser v Patara [ 1967 ] 2 ITR 76 ) , but not an overriding one , in support of the transfer as a going concern .
20 In short , the single most significant factor in the unemployed status of those who had previously worked had been their use of heroin .
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