Example sentences of "contribution to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 2 | His essays , poems in rhyming couplets , and sonnets are a powerful contribution to meditative writing in Welsh , marked both by a searching and courageous intelligence and by a superb mastery of his native language . |
| 3 | In both he treats the Bible as an important contribution to present-day theology . |
| 4 | In poorly drained areas extensive cattle ranching is predominant while in better-drained areas annual cropping is expanding and in some cases , especially in Venezuela , irrigation is making a major contribution to agricultural development . |
| 5 | Also 83 per cent believed that we made a positive contribution to good customer relations . ’ |
| 6 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 7 | Thus , an idea on a social form of activity must be related to what is already known in sociology if our research is to make a genuine contribution to sociological knowledge . |
| 8 | Jan. 24 Japan announces increased contribution to allied war effort at G-7 meeting [ see p. 37978 ] . |
| 9 | German contribution to allied war effort is increased . |
| 10 | Jan. 24 Japan increases contribution to allied war effort at G-7 meeting . |
| 11 | German contribution to allied war effort increased . |
| 12 | His wide-ranging contribution to Allied security during World War II was recognized by the USA with the award of the US Legion of Merit in 1946 . |
| 13 | This has encouraged Cutting ( 1985 ) to argue that schizophrenia represents an imbalance of the brain hemispheres , that is , that the right hemisphere is dysfunctional and its contribution to mental life diminished , while the left hemisphere becomes relatively more active and dominates the right . |
| 14 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 15 | A major contribution to specific affinity in the system originates from the cooperative effect of two ( or more ) repressor dimers binding to adjacent sites , forming protein-protein contacts . |
| 16 | It is these states , bound to the Soviet Union by geography , dependency and military weakness which properly form the ‘ Soviet Empire ’ , and whose contribution to Soviet power we shall now examine . |
| 17 | In this section we merely want to put forward briefly the three main ways in which social policy has made and can make a contribution to increased consumption , investment , employment and hence to economic growth . |
| 18 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 19 | EMU is considered to be an important contribution to political union ’ . |
| 20 | Forget the memoirs and the exposés the historical document of Ronald Regan 's contribution to political theory and global statesmanship is Stand Up Reagan , a collection of his after-dinner anecdotes and one-liners from Parkfield Video , £9.99 |
| 21 | With the assistance of Dr Viv Edwards ( University of Reading ) , Dr Troyna will be synthesising the main results of these projects and assessing their contribution to current thinking on how educational systems might respond positively and most effectively to the demands of democratic multicultural societies . |
| 22 | Despite the widespread diffusion , adaptation , and imitation of the Calvinist psalm-tunes throughout northern Europe , their ultimate contribution to Western music generally was less than that of the Lutheran hymns to which they were so closely related . |
| 23 | By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 . |
| 24 | Banks make a major contribution to industrial financing which is not shown in their lending figures , in that they facilitate the leasing of equipment . |
| 25 | The communications network established by Rank Xerox , for example , will be bequeathed to Andalusia ‘ as a contribution to technological development and to training a generation which will take Andalusia into the 21st century ’ . |
| 26 | Recipients are free to decide how to use the allowance , either as a contribution to general household expenses or to buy extra care . |
| 27 | But in fact , the greatest contribution to latter-day fashion has been made by the American manual labourer . |
| 28 | Chapter 3 of the Constitution on the Church , spelling out the doctrine of collegiality , was theologically and dogmatically at the very heart of Vatican II 's debate and contribution to Catholic self-understanding . |
| 29 | And in encouraging the biblical movement , Pius XII had made an indirect contribution to liturgical renewal of equal significance . |
| 30 | The sustained growth in this market was a primary factor in the Pacific Rim 's 22% contribution to overall Sun revenues last year , the Mountain View , California Sparcsystems builder declares . |