Example sentences of "contribution to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Measures of contribution to government revenue could not be matched , as in Sierra Leone 's petroleum SOE , with price controls designed to keep energy prices low ( World Bank Staff , 1989 : p. 225 ) .
2 Tasks represent the human contribution to system performance but for purposes of personnel selection , training and allocation , it is necessary for tasks to be separated or combined into jobs .
3 Before this time , fans were referred to mainly as ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ tearaways ’ and the use of ‘ hooligan ’ marks a distinct stage in the media 's contribution to deviancy amplification .
4 The Steering Group believes that the development of Departmental Road Safety Plans would enhance the contribution to casualty reduction which can be made by Regional Council and Police personnel .
5 The SD in the industrial town of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia reported complaints in March 1941 from the poorer sections of the population that badges bearing a picture of the Führer could only be obtained through a sizeable contribution to Winter Aid collectors , and that there were too few to satisfy the demand .
6 His achievements and contribution to aviation stand as his memorial .
7 These works , together with BC , represent a significant contribution to classification theory .
8 The Hatfield Polytechnic was moving towards computer instruction for all students because , said Norman Lindop in 1971 , ‘ the computer is a part of modern culture ’ , and in 1970 Computer Weekly was drawing attention to the CNAA 's contribution to computer availability in Scotland .
9 Meanwhile , the National Trust is organising the rebuilding of walls in the county as part of its contribution to Landscape Year .
10 Now an education and training consultant , Dr. Strongitharm has made a substantial contribution to building education and has worked tirelessly for the Institute for almost 30 years .
11 The RAF 's contribution to Operation Desert Storm was represented by a Tornado and Jaguar , whilst maritime operations cam e under scrutiny with Nimrod , the mighty hunter .
12 Not until after the development and use of atom bombs did ‘ radio-biology ’ become a widely recognized science and its contribution to cancer research properly appreciated .
13 As you can see , it 's difficult to avoid mythologising Bob Mould 's contribution to guitar rock .
14 It has been shown to make a significant contribution to text recognition , and the results are described in Chapter Three .
15 Thus the Metropolitan Commissioner 's testimony to a brand of tyre as a major contribution to road safety carries weight because of who he is rather than what he looks like .
16 A suitable yardstick of good practice has been provided by the OECD , which in its contribution to Road Safety Year in the European Community in 1986 produced a synthesis of road safety research , with aims that included ‘ identifying those safety measures that should be reconsidered in national and international road safety policy formulation . ’
17 Particular attention will be given to ensuring that schemes promoted under the Roads and Transport Capital Budget block allocations for Road Safety will be given priorities associated with their contribution to road safety .
18 It was suggested that three or four lights would be sufficient and that they would make a worthwhile contribution to road safety on this dangerous stretch of road where there is no footpath .
19 Extra lighting would make a worthwhile contribution to road safety on this dangerous stretch of road with houses on one side no footpath .
20 It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 .
21 Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize for his contribution to quantum theory .
22 Criminal prosecution , requiring proof beyond reasonable doubt , is one legal contribution to child protection .
23 Any contribution to centre policy from Contact members had to be made either by senior Contact staff or individually .
24 Acquisition of reflexive social emotions and their contribution to self monitoring
25 Costs previously carried as a contribution to woodland maintenance , heritage and amenity will no longer be borne as owners seek to comply with the new requirements .
26 I imagine that this may well be the hon. Gentleman 's last contribution to Education Question Time .
27 In recognition of his enormous contribution to world tennis , fellow ITF members presented him during the World Champions Dinner in the elegant Pavilion Gabriel in Paris , during the French Open , with a specially commissioned bust , complete with that pugnacious chin which perfectly reflects the determined response he has always presented to any potentially damaging challenge .
28 Moreover , while the new narrative has undoubtedly been influenced by European and North-American fiction , and by Joyce , Faulkner and the nouveau roman in particular , the new novelists have had the maturity and self-confidence to assimilate influences and to develop their own distinctive literary voice , and thus to make their own original contribution to world literature .
29 Thence , he invents the theory of relativity as a means of putting bubbles into home-made beer ; rock and roll ; and ( his country 's major contribution to world culture ) the surfboard .
30 Although pure sound recording had started in America , the moving picture was probably America 's greatest contribution to world culture .
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