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 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Paracelsus therefore made a significant contribution to medical knowledge across a broad front . |
| 5 | And in encouraging the biblical movement , Pius XII had made an indirect contribution to liturgical renewal of equal significance . |
| 6 | First , teacher secondment to industry , if properly planned and managed , can make a powerful contribution to professional , curriculum and institutional development . |
| 7 | The job must make a worthwhile contribution to corporate or work objectives . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Taken together these could make a real contribution to improved corporate performance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Also 83 per cent believed that we made a positive contribution to good customer relations . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Banks make a major contribution to industrial financing which is not shown in their lending figures , in that they facilitate the leasing of equipment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That is the use of the scarce resource on one project may mean that another project can not be undertaken although it would have generated a positive contribution to fixed costs and profits . |
| 18 | A growing number of nurses are making a personal contribution to clinical research : some are even aiming for a higher degree . |
| 19 | By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 . |
| 20 | In poorly drained areas extensive cattle ranching is predominant while in better-drained areas annual cropping is expanding and in some cases , especially in Venezuela , irrigation is making a major contribution to agricultural development . |
| 21 | Recent claims suggest that ‘ Diagnostic expert systems can be classed as the fastest growing functional area for expert system development today ’ , and that their application is making a significant contribution to efficient handling of complex system failure diagnosis . |
| 22 | Mr Koorosh Khodabandehloo , the Director of AMARC , believes that research in this area will not only provide the technology for more successful and precise operations , but is also making a direct contribution to medical science . |
| 23 | Cases of the former kind will be informative , and constitute an important contribution to scientific knowledge , simply because they mark the discovery of something that was previously unheard of or considered unlikely . |
| 24 | Graham Sutherland 's wartime drawings and paintings , including views of bomb-damaged Swansea and London , and also of welsh tin mines , Derbyshire limestone quarries and devastated French caves , form a major contribution to modern British art . |
| 25 | Thus , an idea on a social form of activity must be related to what is already known in sociology if our research is to make a genuine contribution to sociological knowledge . |
| 26 | The research — which will be conducted under the auspices of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam and extends over a two-and -a-half year period — is expected to make a significant contribution to current debates about the exploitation and future of rainforest , and to attempts to place economic values on its component parts . |
| 27 | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety . |
| 28 | Geothermal energy does not involve the burning of fossil fuels and therefore makes a negligible contribution to global warming . |
| 29 | Yet in both its anti-art and anti-dada stages it makes a positive contribution to modern art . |
| 30 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |