Example sentences of "have [been] an [adj] factor " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Activity over 12 months of the year has been an important factor . |
| 2 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 3 | And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools . |
| 4 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
| 5 | David Rush ( striker ) : The young striker 's seemingly inexhaustible store of energy has been an important factor in the Cup run . |
| 6 | Depending upon when Edmund 's Welsh alliance was made , it may have been an additional factor in persuading Eadric to change his allegiance , or a move to put pressure on him once he had deserted . |
| 7 | Exchange will have been an important factor in this general process of consolidation . |
| 8 | Also , in parallel with the United States , the influence of public policy seems to have been an additional factor of some importance since it has been observed that the policy of the occupying powers after 1947 probably strengthened the tendency to form enterprise-based unions rather than alternative structures for bargaining purposes ( Levine , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Atrophic gastritis was found in three of our patients and is therefore unlikely to have been an important factor in our study . |
| 10 | Tatsumi and Hashimoto also said that their banks ' excessive emphasis on profit had been an additional factor . |
| 11 | The introduction of bells into all the steeples of Christendom had been an early factor in regularizing the habits of the people — their first lesson in working to the clock . |
| 12 | ( Their own very complicated feudal position had been an inhibiting factor . ) |
| 13 | Also , John often insisted that the treatment of black people in South Africa had been an important factor in his decision . |
| 14 | Mr Guy said the massive response to the Hoover free flights offer had been an important factor in the firm 's decline . |
| 15 | who have led the field in running schemes of financial devolution , have been an important factor in the decision-making leading up to statutory introduction of Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) . |