Example sentences of "contribute to the " in BNC.

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31 Everyone made mistakes , but they all contributed to the team effort , which was a satisfying aspect of the game .
32 On the pitch he was practically impossible to replace and I 'm sure all this contributed to the pressure bearing down on Dalglish in those last months .
33 Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years .
34 During the interim decision on the AWA negligence case against Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu — in which AWA had alleged that DRT contributed to the $50m in foreign exchange losses the company suffered — trial judge Mr Justice Rogers asked the court why it should be that ‘ the whole burden of possibly insolvent wrongdoers falls entirely on a well-insured , or deep-pocket , defendant ’ ?
35 There were certain factors which contributed to the survival of the smaller breweries during this period , namely :
36 The influences which contributed to the development of this model draw on psycho-analysis , psychosocial casework , ego psychology , role theory , systems theory , family therapy , communication theory and developmental family theory ( Greene , 1986 , pp. 6–7 ) .
37 As we have already mentioned , there were many factors which contributed to the trends to ‘ total war ’ in the first half of the twentieth century .
38 What turned the rising of 17–18 July 1936 into a civil war was , first of all , the rebels ' failure , due to hesitation and division within the officer corps and the militarized police forces , to seize control quickly enough throughout the country ; second , the decision of the Republican government to arm the UGT and CNT militias , which contributed to the defeat of the rising in important centres ; and finally the intervention of foreign powers , enabling the two sides to continue the struggle indefinitely .
39 £30 Examines the cultural forces that contributed to the demise of the Salon exhibitions .
40 It is clear that the North of England and especially Scotland contributed to the large advance of 1792 over 1788 .
41 It contributed to the decision of the Unitarian Dr John Estlin to fund the alternative Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by Webb and beginning publication in 1852 .
42 What Marliac contributed to the cultivation of hardy waterlily varieties , George H. Pring gave to the cultivation of tropical waterlilies .
43 It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras .
44 Aircraft Specialties also contributed to the film in another big way .
45 Conceivably it contributed to the family 's mystique .
46 It contributed to the newspaper both in terms of content and also in terms of much-needed revenue and so helped newspapers in their struggles to survive .
47 Staff at the development centres of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Fujitsu Ltd and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA also contributed to the work .
48 If these claims fail , others who should be protecting her interests will tell her that she contributed to the situation by being in male territory .
49 One of the defining characteristics of a public good is non-eccludability : once the benefit is produced , it is accessible to everyone , however much or little they contributed to the result .
50 There were may factors which contributed to the delay in completion of the RHA 's review of its policies on mental hospitals .
51 USL Europe 's poor financial performance over the the year also contributed to the decision .
52 She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital .
53 More difficult to explain is how the heat release from the thermohaline circulation ( down wind of North America ) contributed to the North American ice-sheet collapse .
54 It contributed to the financial package for the land consolidation works above Catanzaro and for a sophisticated park and ride system for Orvieto , both in Italy .
55 The catalogue recalls that in 1938 Brame and Lorenceau held an exhibition of Rousseau 's work which contributed to the revival of interest in that artist 's work , and goes on to express the hope that eventually a museum devoted to Barbizon painting may be set up .
56 It has been suggested that lending to finance trade imbalances may have been too lax , and as such contributed to the inflationary resurgence in the late 1970s .
57 A post-mortem examination of the occupants revealed nothing which contributed to the accident .
58 Their newly acquired rights ( to come and go as they pleased , to own and dispose of property , to buy and sell goods ) contributed to the growth of trade and also strengthened the economic power of the burgesses in relation to that of the nobility .
59 There were many factors which contributed to the ‘ speed of response ’ , Mr Vernon went on , outlining the progress the RNLI is making to improve it .
60 The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed .
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