Example sentences of "which make a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he describes the unprecedented amount of sculpture he has found , whose quality demonstrates that the sculptors of Aphrodisias were no mere copyists but artists ofa distinctive school which made a major contribution to ancient art . |
| 2 | Much later the Boots Pure Drug Co. endowed professorships in honour of Lord and Lady Trent which made a substantial contribution to the academic growth of the University . |
| 3 | But the towns were by no means insulated from its far-reaching effects , nor , within the towns , the trading community which made a substantial contribution to the wealth of the kingdom in this period . |
| 4 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 5 | These were the only two factors which made a significant contribution to the persistence of symptoms . |
| 6 | Also the subject of slugs , he felt , was not one which made an easy stepping-stone to such delicate matters as he himself had in mind . |
| 7 | I deliberately chose the hydrangeas for their pointed petals , which made an interesting contrast to the very rounded shapes of the yellow potentillas and the roses . |
| 8 | The claim that individuals are the proper locus of explanation because they could do otherwise , and the claim that their actions are indeed important independent variables which make a substantial difference to the course of events are precisely the claims that must be argued for , rather than merely stated . |
| 9 | Is it therefore possible to separate out those aspects of ‘ Motherese ’ which make a positive contribution to language learning from those which are merely incidental and possibly those which are actually detrimental ? |
| 10 | Still Life & A Classical Education by Richard Cobb ( Hogarth Press , £9.99 ) — Richard Cobb 's double autobiography has an impressionistic quality , which makes a welcome contrast to the excess of detail and interminable name-dropping of most contemporary memoirs . |
| 11 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 12 | An innovative attempt to distinguish between the more objectionable forms of cheque-book journalism and the literature which makes a significant contribution to the culture or contributes to the prevention of crime or the rehabilitation of offenders is being made in Victoria , Australia , where the Crimes ( Confiscation of Profits ) Amendment Act 1991 ( Vic. ) , although expanding the concept of ‘ benefit ’ to include the profits of criminal expression , will provide a court with discretion to decide whether or not to treat the profits as a ‘ benefit ’ for the purposes of the Act . |
| 13 | In addition , Colwell et al ( 1978 ) have postulated that abnormal platelet function secondary to the diabetic state may contribute to the development of the specific microvascular disease of diabetics which makes an important contribution to morbidity and mortality in the diabetic population , principally through retinopathy , nephropathy and neuropathy and possibly also a cardiopathy ( Keen & Jarrett , 1982 ) . |