The phrase "a central underlying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a fundamental or core aspect of a concept, idea, or issue that serves as a basis for understanding.
Example: "The study aims to identify a central underlying principle that governs the behavior of the system."
Alternatives: "a fundamental basis" or "a core underlying factor".
As with "The Good Wife" and "The Firm" (NBC) each episode covers a new case, but there is a central underlying plot that develops from week to week.
This process, termed NOS uncoupling, resulting in less NO and more superoxide generation, has been established as a central underlying cause of endothelial dysfunction found in atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and ischemia/reperfusion [ 18, 19].
Poverty (and malnutrition) is a very central underlying structural factor in this setting, which has a direct effect on maternal morbidity and mortality.
"If Labour currently has central, underlying messages that it is trying to communicate to the electorate about itself, its policies, and its leader, the best you could say at present is that it's not quite coming across," McBride wrote.
That work embodies three central underlying constructs information communication mode, communication speed, and complexity level.
All of them reflect the central underlying reality of American electoral politics in the current era: an electorate that is strongly partisan and deeply divided along racial, ideological, and cultural lines".
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world, and atherosclerosis is the central underlying pathology [1].
If sustained capacity development is desired, empowerment should be the central underlying strategy of public health practice reform.
A central incident underlying the lawsuit -- a meeting at which a Microsoft executive either did or did not threaten to "cut off" Netscape's "air supply" -- took place in June 1995.
These findings indicate that NP-induced OS might be a central mechanism underlying the neurotoxicity of metallic NPs.
Since the inception of materials science, experiment has been a central theme underlying investigation of the structure and properties of materials while modelling was aimed initially at the interpretation of experimental results.
