Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a major [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the University 's commercial arm , UnivEd not only makes a major contribution to the University 's finances , but also enhances Edinburgh 's position as an international centre of excellence in teaching and research . |
| 2 | The Commons , by its elected status , associates the people with the government , and thus makes a major contribution to legitimacy , a concept essential for government by consent . |
| 3 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 4 | It also represents a major challenge to educationalists : not only should children be taught to use information technology , a subject that has emerged suddenly from nowhere with no teaching tradition , but all disciplines could profit from incorporating this new technology into their teaching practice . |
| 5 | It then takes a major blow to fracture it . |
| 6 | The introduction of a local income tax therefore requires a major reform to income tax and one that points in the opposite direction to the recent individualisation of tax — with separate assessment for husbands and wives . |