1.That seems unlikely to be the whole story (the amount of help needed to compensate would be huge), though it might be a contributory factor.
尽管这可能是一个促成因素，但似乎不大可能成为整个故事（需要补偿的帮助数额将是巨大的）。
2.Anger at high unemployment has caused unrest and may have been a contributory factor in the riots in Britain last month.
对高失业率的愤怒导致社会动荡，这也可能是引发上个月英国骚乱的原因之一。
3.Encouraging bad decisions through teaser mortgage rates was a central contributory factor in the financial crisis.
开出诱人的贷款利率，鼓励人们做出错误决策，这正是引发金融危机的一个主要原因。
4.that the capillary tensile forces set up during drying is an important contributory factor for the drying shrinkage of concrete.
该毛细拉力设置在干燥过程中是重要的混凝土干缩的因素。
5."Basel II is evolving" , and was not a contributory factor to the crisis, he says.
卡如纳表示，“新巴塞尔协议在不断发展”，而且并非导致危机的因素。
6.While the excess savings of the emerging world were not the principal cause of the financial crisis, they were surely a contributory factor.
尽管新兴世界的过剩储蓄并非导致金融危机的主要原因，但肯定起到了推动作用。
7.Excess weight is increasingly viewed by scientists as a major contributory factor to cancer after smoking.
越来越多的科学家认为，超重是继吸烟之后引起癌症的又一个主要因素。
8.There were clearly other causes of the current crisis but the faults of the international tax system were a big contributory factor.
当前这场危机显然有其它原因，但国际税收体制的缺陷是一个重大因素。
9.Many analysts say ineffective oversight was a major contributory factor to the world's biggest nuclear crisis in 25 years.
许多分析师表示，监督不力是导致这场25年来全球最大核危机的重大促成因素。
10.Waist fat can also be a contributory factor in diabetes and heart disease.
腰部脂肪是引发糖尿病或心脏病的元凶之一。