Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] contribution to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has made a major contribution to public understanding of science through his books , lectures and broadcasts and through the Exploratory . |
| 2 | You have made a major contribution to this production , Miss Grimsilk . |
| 3 | Very recently David Davis ( 1982 ) has made a scholarly contribution to this field and has been fortunate enough to have the chance to put theory into practice at Birmingham Polytechnic where under the leadership of Brian Watkins a specialist course of considerable merit and vision for P.G.C.E. students has been introduced . |
| 4 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 5 | Publication in a high-impact factor journal such as Nature represents an acknowledgment that the work is at the cutting edge of science , and that it has made a significant contribution to that science . |
| 6 | Thus , as Table 5 demonstrates , the teams were the principal vehicle for residential developments in the social services department and also made a significant contribution to such activity in the voluntary sector . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if tomorrow I confirm a speculative theory implying that the gravitational attraction between two bodies depends on their temperature , falsifying Newton 's theory in the process , I would have made a significant contribution to scientific knowledge . |
| 8 | Paracelsus therefore made a significant contribution to medical knowledge across a broad front . |
| 9 | And in encouraging the biblical movement , Pius XII had made an indirect contribution to liturgical renewal of equal significance . |
| 10 | She has a superb track record , exceptional experience , and in a short space of time has made an enormous contribution to both reestablishing Century 's image and restoring its profitability in conjunction with Arrow . ’ |
| 11 | First , teacher secondment to industry , if properly planned and managed , can make a powerful contribution to professional , curriculum and institutional development . |
| 12 | The job must make a worthwhile contribution to corporate or work objectives . |
| 13 | We hope that the present series of unit texts will make a useful contribution to such a library . |
| 14 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 15 | Taken together these could make a real contribution to improved corporate performance . |
| 16 | 's new initiative — GLAD — will make a real contribution to this . |
| 17 | We feel that this video can make a positive contribution to these aims . |
| 18 | There is considerable ground for speculation about why the Opposition have adopted such a churlish attitude to proposals which are clearly well designed and will make a significant contribution to further improvement in attitudes to training . |
| 19 | Here he describes the unprecedented amount of sculpture he has found , whose quality demonstrates that the sculptors of Aphrodisias were no mere copyists but artists ofa distinctive school which made a major contribution to ancient art . |
| 20 | Colleges made a major contribution to that work , an activity , as with In-Service generally , for which they would lack both credibility and resources were their teacher education work to be further reduced , as the proposed reforms threaten . |
| 21 | He also made a major contribution to local history through his editorship of the series of pamphlets produced by the local branch of the Historical Association . |
| 22 | Lord Burlington was an outstanding and resplendent figure , not only was he a Knight of the Garter , but also Lord High Treasurer of Ireland ; Captain of the Yeomen of the Guards and Governor of Greenwich Hospital , and he made a serious contribution to that age , although it is his contribution to the arts and architecture for which he is most remembered . |
| 23 | The domain-specific dictionaries made a significant contribution to each respective domain-specific text , but so did the general dictionary . |
| 24 | England too made a significant contribution to this new Western development and produced four great mystics who quickly attracted a considerable following on the continent as well as in their own country : Richard Rolle of Hampole ( c. 1290–1349 ) , the unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing , Walter Hilton ( d. 1376 ) and Dame Julian of Norwich ( c. 1342–1416 ) . |
| 25 | Also 83 per cent believed that we made a positive contribution to good customer relations . ’ |
| 26 | These qualities were all evident when he took charge of the task of preparing the instructions for the drafting of the Prices and Incomes Acts of the mid-Sixties and he made a notable contribution to those formidably difficult exercises . |
| 27 | The true economics of Keynes , they argue , is a dynamic analysis of the macroeconomy in disequilibrium and as such represents a major contribution to economic theory as well as to economic policy-making . |
| 28 | Banks make a major contribution to industrial financing which is not shown in their lending figures , in that they facilitate the leasing of equipment . |
| 29 | The findings support other evidence of the importance of doctors ' attitudes towards helping patients to achieve good glycaemic control and that skilled strategies to support dietary change can make an appreciable contribution to glycaemic control and may even affect survival . |
| 30 | However , since chronic mental disorder generally brings with it long-term unemployment or low income , the private sector psychiatric hospitals make an insignificant contribution to longer-term services . |