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The phrase "are external to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something exists outside of a particular context or system.
Example: "The factors influencing the decision are external to the organization and should be considered carefully."
Alternatives: "are outside of" or "lie beyond".
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Another reason why markets may fail is the existence of externalities – by which we mean important effects that are external to the market.
Phenomenal externalism suggests that the phenomenal aspects of the mind are external to the body.
Metabolism depends on factors that are external to the organism.
Many of the causes of climate change are external to the Earth system.
Mester: Some of the risks are external to the Fed -- political economy things going on now.
Yes, Mr Hume, you have me, I know, but only by those things that are external to me..
Annotations are external to the documents and can be stored in one or more annotation servers.
'Open innovation' involves taking insights and approaches that are external to an organisation and building on them to develop new concepts and approaches.
The key is to understand the difference between stresses and rewards that are inherent to caregiving and those that are external to it, deriving from the work environment.
Unfortunately, the health care environment adds stresses and rewards that are external to the care of patients and that demand a qualitatively different response.
School governing bodies and LEAs are both part of the education system, although LEA complaints procedures are external to individual schools.
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