Example sentences of "[adj] contribution to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since almost all the basic sports medicine provision within governing bodies of sport is provided by doctors who are either paid nothing or who are given a small honorarium , the prospect of maintaining separate medical defence cover for their voluntary activities may place their valuable contribution to sport in jeopardy . |
| 2 | In most tissues a major contribution to cell to cell adhesion is made by calcium dependent cell adhesion molecules known as cadherins . |
| 3 | Is he further aware that the port and officials at Dover make a major contribution to safety in this area ? |
| 4 | This chapter draws extensively on a paper jointly written with Michael Griffiths — Griffiths and Johnston ( 1991 ) — and his substantial contribution to development of the ideas in it is fully and gratefully acknowledged . |
| 5 | The adoption of these methods within connectionist research will make an important contribution to development of a unified theory of generalisation . |
| 6 | Thus the concept of the product life cycle makes an important contribution to forecasting of sales and planning of products . |
| 7 | But to end our book on jet-lag and shift-work would be too negative , and so we will end by describing an area in which the knowledge of daily rhythms has enabled a small but important contribution to medicine to be made — the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease . |
| 8 | In a forthcoming contribution to Computing for the Humanities , Burnard and Greenstein use a seventeenth-century sasine or record of landholding and transfer , to demonstrate mechanisms which furnish these very facilities . |
| 9 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 10 | Thus , the university can make its most fruitful contribution to democracy through the teaching of an English which places the student in direct touch with the values embodied in the national literature . |
| 11 | In either case the American contribution to deterrence in Europe might be weakened . |
| 12 | Both in the Forum Report ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii ) and in their written submission ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 ) , they not only repeated their oft-stated attitude to catholic schools , defending them from any contribution to sectarianism in Ireland , but opposed the introduction of divorce and any weakening of legislation which they felt protected the family . |
| 13 | Other factors may also be important : the mild upturn in fertility and its rapid failure evident after 1977 were forecast on other grounds : the impossibility of deferring children indefinitely ; the new contribution to fertility from remarriages . |
| 14 | The motivational system of the developing male makes a positive contribution to separation in these animals . |
| 15 | This project aims to achieve a clearer understanding of all the contextual factors influencing decisions made by voters in a representative English country during the so-called ‘ first age of paraty , ’ thereby making a significant contribution to knowledge in the fields of historical psephology and eighteenth-century political history . |
| 16 | It should be observed that the most significant contribution to compensation for injured workmen has been through insurance rather than the tort system . |
| 17 | The multivariate proportional hazards regression in table II shows that the relation between waist-hip ratio and probability of conception per cycle , after controlling for all the other mentioned variables , remained essentially the same : waist-hip ratio yielded the highest independent significant contribution to probability of conception per cycle ( hazard ratio 0.706 , 95% confidence interval 0.562 to 0.887 ) . |
| 18 | All the library schools were mentioned , but CLW ( College of Librarianship Wales ) in particular was referred to by almost half of the authorities mentioning library schools , as providing on-site courses , as requested — and in total making a significant contribution to training in the Welsh county libraries , and some neighbouring authorities , e.g. : ‘ Up to 50% of our courses held annually are arranged by ( CLW ) or contributed into ’ . |
| 19 | But it is the more routine work they do that really makes the significant contribution to safety in the air , such as the identification of the origin of injuries sustained in survivable accidents which has led to the de-lethalisation of aircraft cockpits and cabins . |
| 20 | In doing so it is intended to make a significant contribution to information for policymakers . |