Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a major contribution " in BNC.

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1 But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two .
2 For the simpler tasks of cataloguing , none the less , the computer has a major contribution to make and is already making it .
3 It has the capacity to make a major contribution to the stimulation of scientific achievement for the good of wealth creation in this country .
4 The private sector makes a major contribution in the field of elective surgery such as hip replacements and is now also a significant provider of long-term care for the elderly via the development of private residential and nursing homes ( see Chapter 8 ) .
5 However many of the allegedly doubtful species have more recently been re-recorded , and the work of Heslop Harrison and his team remains a major contribution which can not be ignored by any serious student of the Outer Hebridean flora .
6 Since Religious Education makes a major contribution to the life of the school it becomes particularly important that any curricular innovation is in accord with the aims of Religious Education in the Catholic School .
7 By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas .
8 If you are interested in this ‘ greenfield ’ opportunity to make a major contribution to the performance of Clinical R&D , then please send full career details to Christine Hall , Senior Personnel Officer , SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals , 47–49 London Road , Reigate , Surrey RH YF .
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