Example sentences of "[art] [adj] factor [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distorting factors that have been discovered in scientific research have prompted extensive examination of past methods of research and of past results . |
| 2 | The study of portraits on coins is therefore as much about the political factors that influenced them as about their intrinsic or moral interest . |
| 3 | In the UK , as the new system of regulation is being put in place at a time of considerable liberalisation in financial markets it is difficult to separate the different factors that impinge on market efficiency . |
| 4 | So the age thing is no longer the all-important factor that puts love right out of the question but a sort of cruel wall fate has built between us . |
| 5 | The orthodox account points to the following factors as implicated in the crisis : ( 1 ) the high prison population ( or ‘ numbers crisis , ) ; ( 2 ) overcrowding ; ( 3 ) bad conditions within prison ( for both inmates and prison officers ) ; ( 4 ) understaffing ; ( 5 ) unrest among the staff ; ( 6 ) poor security ; ( 7 ) the ‘ toxic mix ’ of life sentence prisoners , politically motivated prisoners and mentally disturbed inmates ; ( 9 ) riots and other breakdowns of control over prisoners . |
| 6 | This , after all , must surely be the crucial factor when visiting established clubs . |
| 7 | Often the deciding factor when choosing whether to take a lump sum is the problem of investing it . |
| 8 | One must , of course , always stress the human factor and beware the danger of geographical determinism ; nevertheless , it is revealing to find that 86 per cent of estate villages in Kent had no Dissenting chapel , but that such places of worship were common in the scattered settlements of former forest or wood-pasture zones . |
| 9 | It is important to remember the cost-effectiveness factor when thinking about what type of insulation to install . |
| 10 | Okay , erm , if you break a number down into its prime factors , then you can look at the prime factors and see whether other numbers would go into it , so if we take sort of say , three sixty , and find some of its prime factors . |
| 11 | Even if all rural houses are not prohibitively priced , they can be expensive relative to the income levels of local inhabitants , and this can be the key factor that determines whether an individual family can afford to purchase a home . |
| 12 | Unification is the controlling factor that determines whether categories are able to combine to satisfy a grammar rule . |
| 13 | This study shows that bFGF , unlike EGF or FGF a , does not affect gastric acid secretion or gastric blood flow , the major factors that have been implicated in mucosal protection by EGF and TGF against topical irritants . |
| 14 | The association between age , adaptability , and psychological theory remains one of the major factors that disables older people , particularly within a society in which ‘ change ’ and ‘ progress ’ are increasingly important . |
| 15 | This shows that one of the major factors that distinguishes the films of motorways and bends in roads from those of junctions is that they were rated as having less to see in them . |
| 16 | Austrians are highly critical of neo-classical theory for its static treatment of markets and its assumption of perfect information ; these assume away the very factors that explain how markets work and why market coordination is more efficient than the alternative of regulation and planning . |
| 17 | This is not to say , however , that various arguments will not be among the important factors that influence the decisions of scientists . |
| 18 | The important factors that need to be identified to achieve this relate not only to the genetic components that promote nitrogen fixation in Rhizobium spp. but also the nature of the host-bacterium interaction . |
| 19 | The meteorological factors that produce abnormal patterns of atmospheric circulation and suppress rainfall over eastern Australia are difficult to isolate . |
| 20 | In September two distinct news units or departments — one for each channel — were set up : ‘ Chaban ’ later observed that the appointment of Pierre Desgraupes as head of news on channel I was the initial factor that brought together those who were to plot his own downfall in I 972 . |
| 21 | A useful distinction can be made between the defensive factors that cause companies to look beyond their domestic markets ( reactive factors ) and proactive influences . |
| 22 | One foundation upon which the new studies could be built was the Humboldtian search for the geographical factors that limited the distribution of particular species . |
| 23 | Table 2.1 suggests , in simplified form , the changing factors that have shifted particular industries at different times towards global competition . |
| 24 | are not the only factors that affect the price of metals other factors might be important . |
| 25 | ‘ Were short-term considerations such as timetabling or published pass rates the only factors that influenced you ? ’ ; |
| 26 | Economics , good marketing methods , an easy notation and the difficulty of building an acceptable alternative are , one suspects , the only factors that have kept Dewey Decimal alive . |
| 27 | However , although subject may be the primary consideration in the assessment of relevance , it is not the only factor that determines whether a user wishes to be alerted to the existence of a document . |
| 28 | Using multiple linear regression analysis , gastritis with atrophy was the only factor that had an independent negative effect on acid secretion . |
| 29 | The investigator 's expectation is not the only factor that affects the subject 's response . |
| 30 | Poor infrastructure in the forestry industry of Nigeria is not , however , the only factor that has transformed the forest landscape . |