The phrase 'predominant influence' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a strong or prominent effect exerted on something or someone. For example, "Her mother's predominant influence on her life has been a positive one."
Until the age of 11, family is the predominant influence in terms of how children view and understand money.
The predominant influence is the Atlantic Ocean, which is no more than 70 miles (113 km) from any inland location.
As strong as Tamil influence was, the predominant influence on Malayalam was Sanskrit, in language as well as literary form.
But the US and Iran have also competed to be the predominant influence in Iraq with unfortunate results for the country.
If an unlikely predominant influence on The Whole Love was Nick Lowe's bittersweet new wave, Stars Wars brings together the unfamiliar but similarly adventurous bedfellows of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, the spacier end of the glam era (David Bowie's Space Oddity, Lou Reed's Transformer) and the Beatles White Album, one of Tweedy's all-time favourites.
Thus, many lawyers took the British side in the American Revolution, and, even among the lawyers who took the other side, the predominant influence was against any attempt to turn the political revolution into a socioeconomic revolution.
But by 1748, when he painted Cornard Wood, Jacob van Ruisdael had become the predominant influence; although it is full of naturalistic detail, Gainsborough probably never painted directly from nature.
The German codes of 1871 (penal code) and 1877 (procedure) provided the models for other European countries and have had significant influence in Japan and South Korea, although after World War II the U.S. laws of criminal procedure were the predominant influence in the latter countries.
The different structures of 1 and 2 show the predominant influence of chlorine atoms and organic ligands.
The role of predominant influencing parameters including intrinsic parameters as alloy composition and microstructure, or extrinsic factors as loading condition, crack geometry, crack closure, atmosphere environment is particularly discussed.
The general positive relationship of the APP's annual cycle at both sites as well as a negative relationship with heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) abundance, supports the idea that natural forcing, in particular sea surface temperature (SST) is the predominant influences on APP's seasonal variability.
