Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] contribution to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 2 | Nokia Data , acquired last year and included in the 1991 figures from October 1 , ‘ made a small contribution to profits ’ . |
| 3 | The Division made a useful contribution to exhibitions during the year , arranging , for example , for the provision of the well-received background music to ‘ The Hebrides Surveyed ’ . |
| 4 | Turnover was up 16 p.c. to £1.87 billion and Nokia Data , the Finnish company bought for £230m in September , made a modest contribution to profits . |
| 5 | As a result , the running costs of Gezira became a burden on the Sudanese government budget , while the scheme made a declining contribution to exports . |
| 6 | These presumably include providers demonstrating a significant contribution to programmes to improve health status , falling unit costs , a greater diversity of suppliers and a substitution of some secondary care by general practitioners . |
| 7 | These findings support the contention that host antigenic variation , through an autoimmune aetiology , is unlikely to make a substantial contribution to differences in liability to develop Crohn 's disease . |
| 8 | Ontario Homes continued to make a useful contribution to profits although elsewhere the combination of thin trading and year-end provisions against land values created operating losses . |