The phrase "a formal input" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a structured or official piece of information or data that is being provided for consideration or processing.
Example: "Please ensure that all submissions include a formal input to maintain consistency in our records."
Alternatives: "an official submission" or "a structured entry".
A "formal input" by the military would be sent to Parliament, the army said.
This led the UK into the uncomfortable and unsatisfactory situation of accepting shared responsibility without the ability to make a formal input into the process of decision-making".
This means that Redwood, who chairs the 1922 economic committee and who unsuccessfully challenged John Major for the Tory leadership in 2005 over Europe, will have a formal input into the prime minister's policy board on economics.
Many health care systems now use economic evaluations as a formal input to decisions about whether to fund programmes.
Many health care systems in developed countries now use economic evaluations as a formal input to decisions about whether to fund new technologies.
never had any formal input in the redesign but simply asked that the dog runs be placed away from its library and that the design try to take into account the school's tradition of holding its commencement in the park.
No one is talking revolution, but a gradual evolution to a more transparent, rule-of-law-based system, with the people having more formal input.
Companies frequently meet with regulators behind closed doors and inundate them with biased economic studies, but consumers do not have formal input into the process or opportunity to challenge their data.
In addition, small federal grants to state and local nonprofit groups, policymakers, business owners, and academics allowed them to submit formal "input reports" that gave federal officials access to local know-how.
Their role is being increased in the management of patients with long term conditions [ 7] but currently have little or no formal input into the care of patients with CFS/ME.
LANGSEC posits that the only path to trustworthy software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs as a formal language, and the respective input-handling routines as a recognizer for that language.
