Example sentences of "contribute to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 2 | A founder of the Toronto Literary Club in 1836 , he contributed to the Canadian Literary Magazine ( Toronto ) and the Literary Garland ( Montreal ) . |
| 3 | Dowson contributed to the principal aesthetic magazines : Century Guild Hobby Horse , Yellow Book , Savoy , and the anthologies published by the Rhymers ' Club ( 1892 and 1894 ) . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that lending to finance trade imbalances may have been too lax , and as such contributed to the inflationary resurgence in the late 1970s . |
| 5 | It contributed to the financial package for the land consolidation works above Catanzaro and for a sophisticated park and ride system for Orvieto , both in Italy . |
| 6 | Tyson , two of whose penalty decisions contributed to the recent battle of Highbury between Arsenal and Norwich , this time gave nothing , but by half-time he had cautioned Sheedy and Pearce for fouls . |
| 7 | The other variable which was not patient defined and which contributed to the multiple regression model was being under the care of a general practitioner with a special interest in diabetes . |
| 8 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 9 | In the preceding generation it contributed to the general discovery of the complex and various causes of poverty , and to considerable public discussion of the problem of the aged poor . |
| 10 | In Japan the accumulation rate peaked at the end of the sixties and the increasing weight of the Japanese capital stock also contributed to the upward trend in the ACC accumulation rate over the 1960s as a whole ( figures 11.2 and 11.3 ) . |
| 11 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly this contributed to the Labour electoral victory in 1945 and to the increased participation of middle-class people in the work of the Labour Party . |
| 13 | If proceedings have been issued you may be required to contribute to the Defendants ' legal costs , but this will usually be limited to the same amount that you contributed to the Legal Aid Board in respect of your own legal costs . |
| 14 | It is clear that the North of England and especially Scotland contributed to the large advance of 1792 over 1788 . |
| 15 | But it was not instrumental music per se that gave Italy its centuries of primacy , though it contributed to the main form in which that primacy was manifested ; it was the continuing drive to make music express poetic texts . |
| 16 | We are grateful also to Lord Flowers and all the speakers at various events and to the many members of the University who contributed to the public launch of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 17 | But few of their efforts in the field of development were blessed with success , and this contributed to the erroneous impression that nothing was attempted . |
| 18 | During June , sharp falls in the price of seasonal foods like fruit and vegetables , contributed to the heavy slide in inflation . |
| 19 | It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras . |
| 20 | This contributed to the notable growth in trade union membership from 1902 and the industrial unrest of 1910 to 1914 . |
| 21 | THE stunning profits performance by music giant Thorn EMI contributed to the initial tentative rise on the FTSE . |
| 22 | These seemingly effortless designs were the cause of much exasperation , as Minton describes in the satire ‘ Doing the Book of the Film or ‘ How I Ruined My Life ’ which he contributed to the Royal College 's magazine , Ark . |
| 23 | Actual demographic trends also contributed to the outward movement , as the rearing of the 1960s baby boom children increased the demand for houses with gardens and as falling average household size reduced the population capacity of cities that had only limited sites available for new housing construction ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 24 | By deciding in late 1987 to take my daughter to Budapest 's Peto Institute for a spell of conductive education I ‘ contributed to the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's … disability ’ — ; in her case , cerebral palsy . |
| 25 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 26 | One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member . |
| 27 | The overseas trade in cloth also contributed to the growing dominance of London , because exports were largely in the hands of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company , which was increasingly dominated by the London Mercers ' Company ( 64 ) . |
| 28 | In the military strategy devised by the Chiefs of Staff to support the Eden Government 's Defence policy , the Services were to fulfil four roles : contributing to the Allied nuclear deterrent ; exerting influence in the Cold War ; dealing with outbreaks of limited war ; and playing an effective part in global war , if the deterrent were to fail . |
| 29 | Its real advantage is performance through a range of wind speeds , the battened tips on its 214cm ( 841/4 in ) span contributing to the lateral stability while the traditionally flexing leading edges of the Delta shape pivot about the cross-spar . |
| 30 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |