Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] contribute to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports .
2 This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel .
3 One sector is designated ‘ prime user ’ of a section of track , for example , and the other sectors only contribute to the extent that they cause additional ‘ avoidable ’ costs .
4 This data also contributed to the school profiles .
5 It has argued that greater than forecast levels of infill demonstrate the soundness of the Structure Plan strategy ; reflect the real nature of the needs of the housing market and thereby m materially contribute to the adequacy of the regional five year land supply .
6 Augustinians , Dominicans , Franciscans and Cistercians all contributed to the care of such communities which were finally organised into independent parishes .
7 The loss of heart she experienced in May perhaps contributed to the loss of touch she demonstrated through the summer .
8 In the 1770s she had envisaged the abolition of serfdom in Bohemia , Joseph merely its amelioration : his attitude probably contributed to the outbreak in the province of the peasant revolt of 1775 .
9 AEA also contributes to the PWR safety programme ; last year we further developed the INSPECT code , which is used to help predict the behaviour of iodine in a PWR loss of coolant accident .
10 Each city and settlement trains and equips a body of spearmen and archers in proportion to their population , the retinues of the High Elf nobles also contribute to the levy .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Aircraft Specialties also contributed to the film in another big way .
14 Darchem 's reduced figures also contributed to the ending of William Baird 's 11-year run of increased profits .
15 The mechanisms through which this stimulation occurs include rocking , chest movement , touch , and noise , all of which are concomitants of close proximity to other people and affect levels of arousal ; mothers sleeping close to infants also contribute to the monitoring and control of temperature and chemical microenvironment ( particularly carbon dioxide levels ) .
16 The same triple defect probably contributes to the formation of recurrent gall bladder stones .
17 Integrity also contributes to the efficiency of law in the way we noticed earlier .
18 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 .
19 Many organisms other than corals also contribute to the construction of the reef .
20 Staff at the development centres of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Fujitsu Ltd and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA also contributed to the work .
21 If clarification requests are divided into just two categories , potential ( being those categories where the listener actively contributes to the negotiation by introducing new information ) , and simple ( the remaining categories ) , and these are set against the number of inadequate messages produced , a number of interesting findings emerges .
22 These two positions of special prominence have different functions , and contribute to the ordering of given and new information in your writing ( we have seen above how presupposition also contributes to the patterning of given and new , Chapter 3 , p. 65 ) .
23 College staff often contribute to the management of local enterprise agencies , to small business clubs and sit on the committees of Chambers of Commerce .
24 It can get busy at weekends — especially Sundays , with walkers , cyclists and horse-riders and the occasional car or four-wheel drive all contributing to the wear and tear of the track .
25 Willses generously contributed to the construction and repair of churches .
26 But it seems likely that influences other than faster scrapping also contributed to the decline in the measured ratio of output to capital .
27 Mrs Thatcher 's style certainly contributed to the Cabinet divisions between 1979 and 1981 and again after 1987 .
28 ( In present schemes , under the auspices of the National Rivers Authority , polluters merely contribute to the cost of monitoring discharge levels and pay penalties for breaching them . )
29 In this way , as in others , the project directly contributed to the formulation of the school 's future language policy .
30 The removal of exchange controls allowed diversification of portfolios to continue on an international scale , and it should be recognised that the increasing globalisation of markets through deregulation and liberalisation also contributed to the growth in holdings of overseas securities .
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