Example sentences of "[modal v] make a [adj] contribution " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem . |
| 2 | Thus the fast process may make a permanent contribution during the sensitive period , while its influence later would adjust the cortical feature detectors , tending to make them respond most to the unusual combinations and coincidences in their input . |
| 3 | The most plausible mechanism by which punishment may be thought to achieve this aim is general deterrence , although other reductivist effects such as instrumental denunciation and incapacitation may make a secondary contribution . |
| 4 | The subject matter should make a technical contribution to the state of the art . |
| 5 | I believe we should all warmly welcome this opportunity to debate the role of audit ; it gives the users of audit services the opportunity to have their say and it should make a major contribution to dealing with the expectation gap . |
| 6 | There is a growing expectation , not least from WACC 's friends in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union , that our Christian association should make a substantial contribution to the ethical debate on communication . |
| 7 | The job must make a worthwhile contribution to corporate or work objectives . |
| 8 | Organization must be appropriate , and must make a positive contribution to the problems whose identification called it into being . |
| 9 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 10 | Consequently , they might make a significant contribution to the development of computer-aided instructional materials and delivery systems for machine-readable information which will be found increasingly in the commercial as well as in the academic worlds . |
| 11 | When you carry out the initial survey to check just what you have got and what you want , do n't discard anything that might make a positive contribution to the garden later on . |
| 12 | Perhaps the development by lay shareholders of the scepticism implied by Mr Smith 's survival techniques could make a substantial contribution to avoiding a repetition of the public shock that attended the corporate failures at the end of the 1980s . |
| 13 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 14 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 15 | Taken together these could make a real contribution to improved corporate performance . |
| 16 | When I was asked by John Wakeham to join AEA as a part-time member in 1988 , it was clear that it would to help lead a similar re-orientation and I felt I could make a useful contribution . |
| 17 | The conclusion must be that it could , only if there had have been genuine prospects that an improved , amalgamated and better managed canal system could make a viable contribution to an efficient transport system of the country . |
| 18 | They are already in use in Australia , America , Brazil and Tanzania , and could make a major contribution to managing insect-borne diseases and crop pests , according to Dr Janet Hemingway of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . |
| 19 | The establishment now of a co-ordinated network of Regional INSET ( in-service training ) offices , or officers , with the primary function of advising and promoting self help , would be timely , in view of the stimulation to training that has been engendered by the introduction of the pre-licentiate scheme , and could make a major contribution towards combating the inefficient and inequitable distribution of training . |
| 20 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 21 | But these dispersed and autonomous ‘ legions ’ of Ukrainians , Balts , Caucasians and Central Asians , attached as auxiliaries to German units , were a very different matter from the formal recognition that a true Great Russian army of Slav Untermensch could make a valuable contribution to the defeat of the USSR . |
| 22 | Although technology to reduce pollution could make a significant contribution to the problem , the industry showed ‘ minimal ’ commitment to innovation , research and development , it said . |
| 23 | Mental and emotional problems , which began long before the food intolerance , could make a significant contribution to the symptoms , once the gut has become sensitized and over-reactive . |
| 24 | In this field as in others physical geographers are only one group of contributors to research but recent endeavours have included field measurement of soil water and relationship between condition of the environment including soil water status and plant growth , and it is suggested that the impact of atmospheric pollution on crop growth and yields in advanced industrial countries is an area of research where physical geographers could make a significant contribution . |
| 25 | As ‘ the most successful mathematics students will generally be versatile learners ’ , this , if it is true , could make a significant contribution to our understanding of the processes by which girls are gradually marginalised in mathematics . |
| 26 | Closing the Park to through traffic could make a significant contribution in this direction . |
| 27 | Access to their libraries , computers , meetings rooms , sports halls , playing fields and swimming pools could make a big contribution to community life . |
| 28 | Money released on that scale could make a vital contribution to closing a gap of about £3 billion a year in investment in affordable , rented accommodation over Britain as a whole , the report states . |
| 29 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 30 | As she endeavoured to come to terms with the realities of her marriage and royal life , there were moments in those early years when Diana sensed that she actually could cope and could make a positive contribution to the royal family and the wider nation . |