Example sentences of "contribute to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to this the monies raised by new members the length and breadth of the British Isles who contributed to the Section 's annual turnover of £2.25 million with their cultural events , sponsored walks and street collections . |
| 2 | Reports in weekend newspapers of a rift between Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson over the recent rise in interest rates and the value of sterling also contributed to the fall . |
| 3 | The event was attended by those who generously contributed to the project , by representatives from the RAF and by local dignitaries . |
| 4 | In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema . |
| 5 | Tyson , two of whose penalty decisions contributed to the recent battle of Highbury between Arsenal and Norwich , this time gave nothing , but by half-time he had cautioned Sheedy and Pearce for fouls . |
| 6 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 7 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 8 | Books : Triangles of love among the Liberals Roy Jenkins on a romance that contributed to the collapse of the Liberals |
| 9 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 10 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 11 | Encouraged by several physicians and apothecaries , including Rand , Douglas , Sherard and Mead , and aided by her spouse who contributed to the text from prison , she produced in 1737–8 A curious Herbal , containing 500 Cuts of the most Useful Plants now used in the Practice of Physic . |
| 12 | The Romans were fond of lead vessels for food and drink and used lead-based glazes on pottery : lead poisoning was common and has even been proposed as a cause of the madness among high-ranking Romans which contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire . |
| 13 | The paper by Barrington ( 1886 ) on St. Kilda was one of those commended by Campbell ( op. cit. ) , while Gibson ( 1891 ) and Praeger ( 1897 ) also contributed to the lists for this most remote of all the outliers . |
| 14 | The longer-acting drug azathioprine was more satisfactory than 6-MP , and the adrenal cortical steroids also contributed to the prevention of graft rejection and to establishing organ transplantation as a regular therapeutic practice . |
| 15 | Hundreds of smaller , locally organised anti-war actions have occurred nationwide , but little attention is afforded them by a media cowering under government charges that it contributed to the US defeat in Vietnam . |
| 16 | This returns us to the earlier point about the other major forces which contributed to the development of political responses to the riots : namely the media , Parliament , the political parties , and popular ‘ common-sense ’ debate . |
| 17 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 18 | The first mention of belted Scottish cattle is dated to about 1790 but there is a theory that it received its belt originally from imported Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century , a breed which possibly also contributed to the now extinct Sheeted Somerset . |
| 19 | Most of the poems Wordsworth contributed to the Lyrical Ballads were completed in an astonishing burst of creativity during the next few weeks , and drew their inspiration largely from his immediate surroundings at Holford and Alfoxden . |
| 20 | ‘ But that was one of the factors that contributed to the eclipse of Christianity . |
| 21 | With the money that Gay contributed to the house , the ménage at Sunset Cottage contrived to keep going . |
| 22 | Of course the accuracy of the analysis depends upon the integrity of the data supplied to the magazine by the flying organisations that contributed to the survey , and I have presumed , in good faith , that the rates quoted , except where indicated , are not only correct but are indeed inclusive of VAT and non-optional extras such as base landing fees . |
| 23 | The inflation led to social destabilisation on a massive scale and so embittered the German people that it undoubtedly contributed to the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism in the 1930s . |
| 24 | Mr Marshall 's fair used to come for the feast weekend and , in 1914 , he again contributed to the effort by offering to play sacred music on his fairground organ after the Sunday church services , with a collection for the hospital funds . |
| 25 | Sincere thanks were extended to all those who contributed to the success of the exhibition , celebration and festival , by the Cathedral Administrator , Canon P. Harney , who personally welcomed many of the visitors . |
| 26 | May I thank all who contributed to the KSC Polish Appeal recently ; for your generous donations which have enabled this work to be carried out . |
| 27 | But few of their efforts in the field of development were blessed with success , and this contributed to the erroneous impression that nothing was attempted . |
| 28 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 29 | Other events which contributed to the decline of the madeira wine industry were the American Civil War ( which meant a temporary loss of the American market ) and the opening of the Suez Canal ( which meant a reduction in the number of ships calling at Madeira ) . |
| 30 | Wordsworth contributed to the growth of ‘ Humanity ’ , the climate of opinion in which Shaftesbury was able to proceed with factory legislation ; and surely his attitude of reverence towards landscape formed public opinion , so that one now needs planning permission to site a factory and the line of a motorway has to be negotiated ; certain areas have become National Parks , and one can not help noticing how many of these were districts where Wordsworth lived or with which he was in some way associated ( see Gazetteer ) . |