Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adj] contribution to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two . |
| 3 | The chemical industry makes a crucial contribution to our health and prosperity and to protection of the environment . |
| 4 | I think the the answer to that is that the reference e should be made to the village making a significant contribution to the development needs of Greater York , be it housing , employment or comm erm social and community . |
| 5 | It has the capacity to make a major contribution to the stimulation of scientific achievement for the good of wealth creation in this country . |
| 6 | Refugees bring with them not just a bundle of belongings but an accumulation of skills and knowledge and a real determination to make a positive contribution to their new country . |
| 7 | Each Faculty makes a substantial contribution to the field of adult and continuing education , in which the University offers a range of part-time degree , diploma and postgraduate courses together with a comprehensive programme of short courses . |
| 8 | Your gifts for healing and building relationships and creating community make an essential contribution to our evangelising work in society . |
| 9 | By March 1988 there were about 160 subscribers in total and 1988/9 should show a self-supporting enterprise making a considerable contribution to CAB resources through its profits . |
| 10 | If anybody tries to take enough alcoholic drink to make a real contribution to his vitamin or mineral intake , he 's certainly drinking too much ! |
| 11 | While the Course facilitates meeting all of these aims , it has a particular responsibility in respect of 1 b and 1 c , 2 , 3 and 5 and enables the Polytechnic to make a distinctive contribution to the national system of higher education in these areas . |
| 12 | Since Religious Education makes a major contribution to the life of the school it becomes particularly important that any curricular innovation is in accord with the aims of Religious Education in the Catholic School . |
| 13 | We can conclude therefore that both domain-specific collocations and a general collocation dictionary extracted from the LOB corpus make a significant contribution to the recognition process . |
| 14 | We therefore particularly value our partnership with SCF through TRANSAID since it enables BESO to make a direct contribution to Britain 's relief efforts in Africa . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister told my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) that the Government make a large contribution to the UN development agencies , but he must be aware that our contribution has been cut by 38 per cent . |
| 16 | Or do Cain and Abel and The Banks of a River make a greater contribution to the provision of education in Edinburgh than , say , the Chair of Scottish History ? |
| 17 | All the library schools were mentioned , but CLW ( College of Librarianship Wales ) in particular was referred to by almost half of the authorities mentioning library schools , as providing on-site courses , as requested — and in total making a significant contribution to training in the Welsh county libraries , and some neighbouring authorities , e.g. : ‘ Up to 50% of our courses held annually are arranged by ( CLW ) or contributed into ’ . |
| 18 | Frances 's past makes a vivid contribution to her present experience . |
| 19 | Every teacher who seeks to raise pupils ' levels of attainment in another subject makes a valuable contribution to the teaching of English . |
| 20 | By virtue of its considerable size and its elevated site , the church makes a significant contribution to the townscape of Farnham 's ‘ east end ’ . |
| 21 | Although the list of 78 place-names may be far from complete , it shows that men and women from the county made a great contribution to the colonisation of many and varied parts of our planet . |
| 22 | Thus the concept of the product life cycle makes an important contribution to forecasting of sales and planning of products . |
| 23 | Computer science makes a dual contribution to Ryan 's approach to narrativity : on the one hand , it is a source of useful concepts and metaphors for the representation of narrative boundaries ( Chapter 9 ) and of plots ( Chapter 10 ) ; on the other hand , it is presented as an exciting ( although impervious ) testing ground for models and hypotheses concerning the production and interpretation of narratives ( Chapter 11 ) . |
| 24 | This and other changes that year made an important contribution to the wave of inflation which beset the oil-consuming world for the rest of the 1970s and led to the formation of IEA towards the end of 1974 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I hope that the dockyard will be in a position to make a significant contribution to the work in future — our budget provides for that . |
| 27 | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety . |
| 28 | 1.44 < 1.66 therefore accept null hypothesis ; i.e. no evidence to suggest that the technique makes a significant contribution to the recognition process within the domain of music . |
| 29 | The motivational system of the developing male makes a positive contribution to separation in these animals . |
| 30 | A good starting salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered and a willingness to make a positive contribution to the overall success of this highly innovative and rapidly growing company will be reflected in future remuneration . |