I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crucial factor/part/element
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The cost of the project is the crucial factor.
a key factor (= a very important factor )
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A key factor in starting any business is its location.
a risk factor (= something that increases a risk )
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High cholesterol is one of the risk factors associated with heart disease.
causal relationship/link/factor etc
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a causal relationship between unemployment and crime
combination of factors
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A combination of factors may be responsible for the increase in cancer.
contextual information/factors etc
contributing factor
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Stress is a contributing factor in many illnesses.
contributory factor
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Smoking is a contributory factor in lung cancer.
cultural factors/influences
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Research suggests that cultural factors influence scores in intelligence tests.
decisive factor/effect/influence etc
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Women can play a decisive role in the debate over cloning.
determining factor
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The age of a wine is a determining factor as to how it tastes.
economic factor (= a factor involving money or the economy that affects a situation )
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Complex economic and social factors have contributed to the rise in violent crime.
external factors
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Low birth weight may be caused by external factors , such as smoking during pregnancy.
factors...combined
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A number of factors have combined to create this difficult situation.
limiting factor
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A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed.
major role/part/factor etc
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Britain played a major role in the negotiations.
RH factor
Rhesus factor
the deciding factor
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Taxes could be the deciding factor for millions of floating voters.
wind chill factor
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It must have been minus 5 with the wind chill factor .
X Factor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
causal
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We shall consider two possible causal factors: being female and being in a low status job.
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These are not experimental because no causal factor is assumed to be operating in the survey situation.
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During the past decade, much research has addressed possible causal factors .
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Weight by itself can thus be eliminated as a causal factor .
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Second, the relationship between age and poverty may be the consequence of other causal factors .
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Instead, when fully understood, the apparent contradiction may reveal a new causal factor that was not considered before.
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There are, of course, profound disagreements between Marxist and elite writers as to the causal factors generating this phenomena.
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Or does the causal level contain factors of another sort which do the real work?
contributory
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This may well have been a contributory factor in the prevalence of death in child-birth.
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Many different contributory factors were suggested, from national differences in personality structure and child-rearing practices to political institutions.
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In investigating the causes of absenteeism from work, for example, researchers have found different contributory factors .
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Some scientists have pointed to a recent brightening of the sun as an important contributory factor to global warming.
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Check that overfeeding is not a contributory factor .
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The controversy surrounding the film was doubtless a contributory factor to Hollywood's subsequent avoidance of the subject.
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But those within the service point to the investment in training as a major contributory factor to an increasingly professional service.
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Psychological stressors are known to be important contributory factors in relation to accidents.
critical
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Merchant's companies do not seem to distinguish between key result areas and critical success factors .
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Job security is a critical factor for many people.
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Alternatively, dictatorship might be better defined by the absence of a limited mandate-a critical factor in our definition of democracy.
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Research seems to indicate that how parents manage the divorce process is the critical factor for children rather than the divorce perse.
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And within a few years after Keynes, the level of production became the critical factor in war mobilization.
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A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences.
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The most serious charge was that the bank did not address the most critical factors affecting the location of economic activity.
crucial
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The crucial factor in these committees was the presence on them of members and officers together.
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The crucial factor was the identity of your parents.
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It is the combination of different roles within a team that seems a crucial factor in its success.
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Job satisfaction is commonly a crucial factor in a decision not to aim high.
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There is also a problem in delineating this sector since self-employment is considered such a crucial factor .
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In general, fire is the crucial factor in life and the generation of life.
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A crucial factor , after all, in a business where the bland die young.
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Identification with Osiris was a crucial factor both through the judgement after death and through association with his major cult centres.
decisive
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Now it might be argued that ontologically the decisive factor is that on opening his eyes he found again two distinct individuals.
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Yet extending family is such a decisive factor in the success of working parents, they really can not afford their reluctance.
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The decisive factor in many of these wrangles may be the judiciary.
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In the future, aircraft will be the decisive factor .
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However well you try to equip yourself, qualifications are unlikely to be the decisive factor .
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Ultimately, though, human beings are the decisive factor .
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The death of his wife in 1849 was probably a decisive factor in Hill's decision to quit.
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Gradually it emerged that his concern for his country was the decisive factor in his changed attitude.
different
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Many different contributory factors were suggested, from national differences in personality structure and child-rearing practices to political institutions.
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And different factors seem to predispose women to problems with alcohol.
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There is a different price factor for each eligible bond and for each delivery month.
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He insists that very different factors are responsible for the style of his wines.
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Again different factors are suggested here.
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From the 1970s onwards, however, the moves began to accelerate and involved quite different factors .
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One different factor from hens is age.
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The register of academic writing is influenced by several different factors .
economic
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Let us now consider some of the economic and political factors generally incorporated into country risk assessment models applicable to non-OECD countries.
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But if economic factors are included, our choices of future missions will be dramatically changed.
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This will be affected not just by economic factors , but by demographic and social factors as well.
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Another statistic that is even more interesting and germane to the discussion of electronic commerce is the economic factor .
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As well as demographic trends these include such social and economic factors as alternative opportunities for employment and the supply of places.
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The new rules laid greater emphasis on economic factors such as professional qualifications and work skills.
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The importance of this work is that it puts economic factors firmly back on the agenda as explanations of crime.
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Lead times, however, are only one economic factor relevant to East - West competition.
environmental
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On average, environmental factors caused about twice as many cancers as inborn genetic factors.
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But it is certain that an interplay between biological and environmental factors exists.
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Comfort is also related to environmental factors - noise, light and temperature.
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These causes are not necessarily genetic, but may include environmental factors such as upbringing in the family, social conditioning and so on.
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Q17 Identify the major environmental factors which are responsible for producing change in markets.
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Cancer experts are deeply divided amongst themselves about the percentage of cancers that can be attributed to environmental factors .
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Finally, it might be the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors .
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There are interactions between genetic predisposition and environmental factors .
external
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Firstly, changing external factors meant that many plans became rapidly out of date and so they could never be implemented properly.
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We are not internally controlled in our actions but more externally controlled, and one of the external factors is the guilt.
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A mixed picture emerged, characterised by a number of adverse external factors .
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It has nothing to do with external or outside factors of any kind.
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It is not influenced by external factors .
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We examine why the road to our project might be closed by internal and external factors .
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In 1916, however, the fortunes of the union were boosted by entirely external factors .
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This statement relies on external factors , not internal ones to the employee.
important
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The important factor is to ventilate the anger.
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But the most important single factor was the man who had built the business was an honest man.
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The relative presence or absence of the latter is an important factor in distinguishing between different categories of small town.
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This was a perfectly workable design, but an important factor intervened to change it.
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Later in the evening the three other important factors arrived, Jean, Rob and the boat.
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The fact that many of them have not been trained as teachers is another important limiting factor .
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One of the most important factors for maintaining beautiful skin and a glowing complexion is good circulation.
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Your life expectancy can also be an important factor .
key
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It dismisses suggestions that acid rain is a key factor in declining tree health.
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However, the key factor will be whether the president puts campaign finance reform high on his agenda for next year.
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As I've said before, the key factor is not one of nationalism but of sporting excellence.
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However, the key factor has been domestic agricultural policies which protect indigenous agriculture for security or political reasons.
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This is a key factor in preserving the Panel's integrity and independence from the judiciary.
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There are four key factors which illustrate the point.
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Qualities such as unselfishness, sensitivity, honesty, and temperament would also be key factors in the total person.
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This has important consequences for a key factor in the model - the bureaucrat's monopoly of information.
main
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The main factors contributing to this overall position are then listed.
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The main factor for a road is public access, but where to draw the line causes difficulty.
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He suggested that one of the main factors which led to unsafe conditions was cost.
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So far we have looked at some of the main economic factors concerned with selling overseas.
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Price is now the main factor differentiating competing brands.
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What are the main factors producing geometric distortion in Landsat images? 4.
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This question of source rocks is the main unproven factor in assessing the hydrocarbon potential of south Antrim.
major
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Another major limiting factor in excavation is the subjective nature of the excavation process.
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But a major factor is that many baby boomers are moving into their peak earning years, according to Sheehan.
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Variation in the nutrient content of the water was clearly the major factor involved.
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Time is a major factor in reducing the discrepancies among income classes.
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A recent major study of traffic problems in the Edinburgh area recognised road safety as a major factor for consideration.
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The three major operative factors are as follows: 1.
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Smoking is probably the major factor causing heart disease.
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The pressures to get thin, and to do it by shortcuts, may be a major factor in these deaths.
political
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The lifetime of coins was indeed sometimes very short as a result of various political or economic factors .
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The political factor has to weigh in.
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Let us now consider some of the economic and political factors generally incorporated into country risk assessment models applicable to non-OECD countries.
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Another political factor may also play a large role in 1995: An expected capital-gains tax cut may finally come to pass.
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The discipline of cash limits was repeatedly disregarded, with political factors often intervening to soften the government's monetarist convictions.
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University funds are determined yearly by Congress; unfortunately, their allocation often depends upon political factors .
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The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out, but the political factors seem to have prevented progress.
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Describe the main economic and political factors considered by risk analysts. 3.
relevant
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We can assess all the relevant factors for you, and produce the right amount of cash at the appropriate time.
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The cost varies with what you want covered, the risks involved, your credit management history, and other relevant factors .
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These are relevant factors to take into account.
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A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration.
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While age is clearly a highly relevant factor it does not always accurately reflect ability to understand.
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One relevant factor in this situation is the role of psychotherapy in general and of psychoanalysis in particular.
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Another relevant factor is the sense of unfairness and the feeling that some employers seem to get off free.
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A scoring system for the relevant factors is used based on the judgement of a group of informed people.
significant
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It was now that gender became a significant factor .
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Another significant factor is simply the passage of time since 1918.
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Authenticity in terms of location and period detail were significant factors in each film's success.
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Instead, the Packers are thriving, proving once more that sound management is the most significant factor in sports.
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Nat West says that late payment has recently been a significant factor in the demand for bank finance.
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As a consequence, Volunteers were not informed of a number of significant factors .
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Burmeister and Wall; have identified 5 significant macroeconomic factors , 1.
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Furthermore, race is not a significant factor in the minimum wage calculation.
single
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I had no idea that the greatest single factor causing cancer, 350% was diet.
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The single factor that controls the rate of oscillation or movement of the pendulum is the length of the string.
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While it was not the sole cause of this, the poll tax was undoubtably the most important single factor .
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The survey showed that consumer concern about the economy was the single biggest factor affecting the building business in 1993.
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If any single factor dominated the lives of nineteenth-century workers it was insecurity.
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Nutritional factors that affect your cholesterol: Saturated fat is the single most important factor affecting blood cholesterol levels.
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It is also the single most inhibiting factor for investment, not just foreign but domestic.
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But the most important single factor was the man who had built the business was an honest man.
social
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Another complicating social factor is the change in working patterns.
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Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development.
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As well as demographic trends these include such social and economic factors as alternative opportunities for employment and the supply of places.
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For Vygotsky, social factors play a fundamental role in intellectual development.
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The research aims to investigate some of the social psychological factors that have helped to maintain the present conflict.
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As we have implied, the manner in which the change proceeds is conditioned by both social and phonological factors .
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Or are those with lower IQs more likely to be exposed to lead because of social factors ?
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Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors .
various
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He does it by bringing into focus the various contributing factors .
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Depending on various factors , production might find its equilibrium at a high level or a low one.
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These various factors which influence the value of an option may be summed up in the following functional statement:.
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In addition, various factors may interfere with development or future health.
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Efficiency is the outcome of a combination of various inter-related factors working in concert with one another.
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What is more, owing to various factors , the number of people living alone is growing.
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However, the survival of certain types of artefact is as much the result of various factors prior to burial as to post-depositional processes.
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risk
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Establishing risk factors which identify those at an elevated risk of experiencing dementia is problematic because of multi-causality.
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Overweight children and adults have increased heart disease risk factors , such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels.
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Some of the risk factors are associated with the procedures and some with the patients, in particular their age.
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When Maori and non-Maori controls were compared the prevalence of many of the known risk factors was higher in Maori infants.
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Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for cervical neoplasia.
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Weight gain as a risk factor for clinical diabetes mellitus.
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Fifteen of the 16 cases with a fatal outcome had one or more of these risk factors .
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For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors .
■ VERB
affect
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Changing patterns of household formation are normally taken into account, as this factor can also affect results.
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The politically optimal policy toward the foreigner may be precluded by the inequality of factors affecting the balance of bargaining.
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To deal with this possibility, you need to identify the factors that might affect voting rates among men and women.
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Another factor which affected the likelihood of a case being reported was intimidation by the cattle stealers.
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The most serious charge was that the bank did not address the most critical factors affecting the location of economic activity.
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Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time.
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A final factor that affects the number of children desired by developing world couples is infant mortality.
contribute
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One of the contributing factors is the collapse in cocoa prices.
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We are very fortunate in this country to say that prosperity and suffering, both are inherently contributing factors for unity.
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Another key contributing factor is the warmth and wetness of skin.
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Whether caffeine is the root cause of your insomnia or just a contributing factor , your caffeine consumption needs to be addressed.
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But individual choices, structured by family, community and ethnic group efforts and values will be a contributing factor .
depend
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The method used for this process will depend on several factors , mainly the number of copies, the quality and cost.
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The fates of these leagues largely will depend on those factors .&038;.
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Tail rotor trim is variable and depends on many factors which are discussed elsewhere.
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For example, Texas now gives welfare beneficiaries one to three years to find employment, depending on such factors as education.
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Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors .
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This load depends on factors such as where the connection is in the building.
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Newco's options depend on these factors , as well as on the time available and the financial strength of the vendor.
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University funds are determined yearly by Congress; unfortunately, their allocation often depends upon political factors .
determine
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Space is a determining factor on performance.
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What has been done, and what is morally judged, is partly determined by external factors .
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Simple belief is often the determining factor in economic matters.
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Resort to the photocopier is often determined by economic factors .
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Depth, the Wildcats said, was the determining factor .
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The third determining factor is finance.
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Again, budget is a determining factor in decision making.
identify
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Between 1945 and 1956, many research findings identified other factors which affected the blood pressure.
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To deal with this possibility, you need to identify the factors that might affect voting rates among men and women.
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Q17 Identify the major environmental factors which are responsible for producing change in markets.
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All the complex factors that make children behave in certain ways will never be simple to identify .
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The marketer must therefore turn his attention to how to identify these factors soas to be able to construct an effective strategy.
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This leads to the establishing of a model which attempts to identify and compare growth factors for the two business groups.
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A comparative approach will identify marketing factors which distinguish successful companies from less successful ones.
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This in turn has led clinicians to try to identify the factors that might be responsible for poor clinical results.
influence
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Mr. Clarke Any intelligent parent, intelligent governor or intelligent newspaper person will bear it in mind that various factors influence results.
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These factors influence not only cognitive reasoning but also affective reasoning.
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What factors influence the type of crater and associated features formed by an impact? 8.
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Vygotsky was concerned with the question of how social and cultural factors influence intellectual development.
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What are the factors that will influence your decision?
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Population Occasionally, population will be the primary factor which will influence the marketing of a particular product.
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In such a situation, what factors might influence data quality?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
among other things/places/factors etc
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But that study was highly criticized for poor mammograms, among other things.
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I'd like him to look specifically at Personnel's computing problems among other things. 3.
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It was noticeable, among other things, that she was drinking faster than anybody else.
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Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.
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That could mean, among other things, grouping inmates by race in counseling.
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That meant, among other things, keeping them from making any deal that gave real estate to the Vietminh.
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The industrial revolution, among other things, necessarily produced general literacy.
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You have to give Cronenberg credit for nerve, among other things.
extenuating circumstances/factors etc
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A terrifying warning was occasionally administered in cases where extenuating circumstances existed.
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Clearly, then, extenuating factors such as the attraction of video stores and the ability to browse are sometimes overlooked.
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Goodstein suggested that this eased by talking about extenuating circumstances.
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Hunger and poverty, the main reasons for their poaching, are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances.
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Paedophilia is the only major crime in which there is no possibility of extenuating circumstances.
feel-good factor
mitigating circumstances/factors
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A good barrister - he'd known Thomas Walters for years - would be able to argue mitigating circumstances.
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I understand that there are mitigating circumstances, programming complications, contracts, etc.
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In its defence, the Government pleads mitigating circumstances.
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In the absence of mitigating factors the virus is likely to hit a dead end wherever strict role separation is practiced.
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Juries have long stretched notions of self-defense or extended implicit clemency to recognize mitigating factors such as provocation and histories of abuse.
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Lancashire were subsequently fined £500, not £700, because of mitigating circumstances.
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Now, that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case.
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There were also mitigating factors, Lord Lane said.
the wow factor
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Doctors recommend putting factor 30 sun lotion on children.
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His formal education was a less significant factor in his upbringing than practical experience.
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His girlfriend lives in London and I'm sure that was a factor in his decision to move there.
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Money will be the key factor when we decide to buy a new house.
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Race should never be a deciding factor in a hiring decision.
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The issue of abortion rights is obviously not the only factor affecting the female vote.
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The most important factor in professional sport is psychology.
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The price of insurance depends on several factors, including the age of the car.
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There are one or two factors we haven't considered yet.
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Traders said several factors contributed to Nasdaq's weakness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After reactor performance improvements of approximately a factor of one trillion, the break-even point is now in sight.
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Nevertheless, when all factors have been assessed, there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms.
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Several factors influence the distribution of potassium between body comPartments.
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The holist is enlightened by an account of the factors constraining people's actions.
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The proposition linking external factors to workshop behaviour rested on the first three studies.
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There is also a new enforcement factor at work, which is the emergence of global markets attuned to fiscal responsibility.
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They omitted from their calculations two factors which were to make a nonsense of their plans.
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This load depends on factors such as where the connection is in the building.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was just 6% of total world factoring volumes in 1991, according to Factors Chain International.
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Once the policy of factoring is established, the factor will dictate credit terms.
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The fact that millionaires can do all sorts of things that we can't never seems to factor into the equation.
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This would allow investors to factor out inflation before calculating how much money they made on the sale of a particular asset.