Example sentences of "contributed to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , he says , he can see the deficiencies in County 's and NatWest 's structure that might have contributed to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 2 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 3 | Another interpretation is that metamorphism occurred at the same time , or post-dated thrusting , and that the frictional heating produced during thrusting contributed to the partial melting of the crust and the intrusion of granitic rocks . |
| 4 | Old Master dealers Colnaghi , present for the first time , contributed to the outstanding quality of the paintings on display while specialist fields such as Art Deco , Chinese art , old books and porcelain were all represented by leading dealers and top goods . |
| 5 | Mapping of the eruptive products , done jointly with the University of Liverpool , suggests that more than one original caldera may have contributed to the volcanic assemblage . |
| 6 | Mapping of the eruptive products , a joint study with the University of Liverpool , further suggests that more than one original caldera may have contributed to the volcanic assemblage . |
| 7 | Zimbabwe 's divorce from the Currie Cup Competition has contributed to the sad state of its rugby . |
| 8 | Other factors , such as the continuing trend for company relocation away from the south east , have also contributed to the changing geography of consumer lending . |
| 9 | The techniques are now widely used and contributed to the increased production from the Prudhoe Bay field during the Gulf war . |
| 10 | Until the early 1960s the effects of rural depopulation , the dilapidation of much rural property and the cost of travel to urban centres all contributed to the lower price of rural housing compared with urban areas . |
| 11 | Issues of government stock declined and this may have contributed to the lower trend in rates of interest . |
| 12 | Pratten ( 1976 ) , for instance , concluded from a detailed comparison of Swedish and British companies that negotiating procedures in Britain , as well as more fragmented union representation , contributed to the lower labour productivity of some UK companies . |
| 13 | The highly professional standard of firemanship demonstrated by all personnel at this incident contributed to the successful rescue of three persons . ’ |
| 14 | It is a schism which may have contributed to the stalled development of GaAs as an alternative in digital technology . |
| 15 | Here we have a repetition of the childhood in which the parent 's weakness contributed to the unconscious need for punishment . |
| 16 | On the other hand , vascular insufficiency might also have contributed to the impaired peristalsis , because appreciable vascular deposits were seen in our AA cases . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Aspects of social organization have contributed to the increasing isolation of older people . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Lower infant mortality may have contributed to the eighteenth-century fall . |
| 21 | Perhaps the almost doubled entrance prices coupled with the knowledge that big international games lie ahead contributed to the poor show . |
| 22 | The conclusion of an alliance with France in 1894 had already contributed to the favourable publicity which Russian securities received in the West . |
| 23 | Britain has contributed to the European Space Agency 's ERS-1 satellite , launched last July to monitor the oceans . |
| 24 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 25 | These benefits had been a source of rising discontent and had contributed to the electoral success of the Republicans [ see above ] . |
| 26 | Content contributed to the woolly definition in an extra way . |
| 27 | This has contributed to the widening gap between ‘ haves ’ and ‘ have-nots ’ recorded in recent times , which some would argue undermines social cohesion and ultimately impoverishes the quality of life for everyone in society . |
| 28 | a reference to the first of Sir Walter Scott 's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft contributed to the first number of Murray 's Family Library ( 1830 ) . |
| 29 | His hero is a stick who would have contributed to The New Statesman . |
| 30 | Milner ( 1975 ) has summarised and contributed to the long history of research which demonstrates black children 's denial of their colour ( Clark and Clark , 1947 ) , and their preference for white identity ( Goodman , 1964 ) . |