Example sentences of "[noun pl] contributed to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rich merchants contributed to the magnificent civic building which arose in those years ; the town and guild halls , exchanges , municipal belfries , warehouses and city houses . |
| 2 | This research aims to examine the extent to which both the British and Irish Catholic demographic strategies contributed to the historical development of the two communities in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Peter Calvocoressi has described the principle of Enigma as succinctly as it is possible to do : ‘ The Enigma was an encyphering machine that produced a highly-variable scramble of the 26 letters of the alphabet by passing electric current through a set of moveable rotors , each of which by its internal electrical connections contributed to the overall scramble . ’ |
| 4 | Several factors contributed to the low proportion of these users known to Wirral 's ‘ care ’ and ‘ control ’ agencies . |
| 5 | All these factors contributed to the increasing IT competence of students in terms of the digitization of texts and graphics in a production process which was more flexible and more cost-effective . |
| 6 | Other factors contributed to the Tory revival , Scottish hard-headedness about matters of the pocket doubtless among them . |
| 7 | A number of factors contributed to the high inflation rate , including increased government expenditure , the disappointing performance of the private sector and the poor state of the country 's infrastructure . |
| 8 | At the least , the ironworks contributed to the steady clearance of the scrubbier parts of the local woodland ; by the later seventeenth century like the much more wasteful and mobile glass industry of Tudor and Stuart Sussex , they had exhausted much of their best local fuel , and the increased use of coke took the industry elsewhere . |