Example sentences of "had contributed to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 2 | These benefits had been a source of rising discontent and had contributed to the electoral success of the Republicans [ see above ] . |
| 3 | Due either to age or lack of an appropriate patron , he held no central office again until 1668–9 , when he was secretary to the public accounts committee , the body charged with investigating whether financial malpractice had contributed to the naval disaster at the end of the second Dutch war . |
| 4 | Mechale said that civil conflict , drought and seed shortages had contributed to the poor harvests in 1991 . |
| 5 | Heavy spending by the UNP government prior to the presidential elections in December 1988 had contributed to the unsustainable rise in public spending with an accompanying increase in the budget deficit , in defiance of the agreements reached with the IMF . |
| 6 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 7 | In Cornwall , only those who had contributed to the fine made in 1204 were to be allowed to hunt and take the deer within the disafforested districts . |
| 8 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |