The phrase "a material factor" is correct and widely used in written English.
It typically refers to a significant or essential element that plays a significant role in a situation or decision. Example: The lack of affordable housing was identified as a material factor in the city's growing homeless population.
That is a material factor regarding flight risk, Nair says.
The Aswan Dam, built with Soviet aid, was a material factor in improving Egypt's lot.
But it said the intermittent nature of wind energy was "not a material factor" in the blackout.
How are the questions of race and class different today than in the 1950s and 1960s, when writers such as Richard Wright felt that race was as much a material factor as class?
It might embolden other sporting bodies to take similar action if they knew that the ban was a material factor in encouraging our anonymous player to come out to his team-mates.
Currently, if an employer can show that there is a "material factor", which is not due to an employee's gender, they will not be found guilty of pay discrimination.
Despite these potential pitfalls, many retailers see the margin compression story as a less material factor when compared to the potential market share pressures involved with not focusing on e-commerce.
Finally, the definition of a hydroforming material factor based on the analytical model of the hydraulic bulging process enables the right choice of sheets with different material strength and thickness for the hydroforming of hybrid components.
Housing tenure is included here (rather than as a socio-demographic factor), because for our study group, in deprived areas, we believe tenure has greater importance as a psychosocial factor than as a structural or material factor.
"The interpretation of the law related to lawful termination in Ireland, and particularly the lack of clear clinical guidelines and training, is considered to have been a material contributory factor in this regard," the report said.
The increased recognition that climate change is a material business factor is also being reinforced by activists such as the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, who have professionalised their activities to focus on laggards.
