Example sentences of "[adj] contribution to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foundation 's broad survey , relating world-wide events to the condition and future of the North of England , attempts to show how the Northern home of the Industrial Revolution , which changed the course of civilisation , can earn a reflex benefit from the outside world : to suggest how it should see its continuing importance and the integrity of its peculiar contribution to that world , the value of its own inalienable strengths and their potential . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | British contribution to international corpus of English |
| 4 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 5 | I do hope he solved it eventually and that he will win a prize , as Shona certainly should , for her enterprising and entertaining contribution to Christian Aid . |
| 6 | German contribution to allied war effort is increased . |
| 7 | German contribution to allied war effort increased . |
| 8 | This article identifies conditions under which the service activities of professionals and paraprofessionals can be more productive and where their joint contribution to human well-being can be enhanced . |
| 9 | An early contribution to Formalist analysis of poetry by Leo Jakubinsky reveals a marked presence in poetry of ‘ hard-to-pronounce conglomerations of similar sounds ’ ( Shklovsky 1965 : 19 ) . |
| 10 | In the last year of the Callaghan government the central contribution to local expenditure began to be cut . |
| 11 | Councillor Bob Middleton , the Labour convener of Grampian Region , paid tribute to Mr Sim 's tremendous contribution to local government over the past four decades . |
| 12 | Councillor Bob Middleton , the Labour convener of Grampian Region , paid tribute to Mr Sim 's tremendous contribution to local government over the past four decades . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His wide-ranging contribution to Allied security during World War II was recognized by the USA with the award of the US Legion of Merit in 1946 . |
| 15 | Although the presence and stature of labouring poets within public discourse are themselves questions of considerable interest , this group of poets may be judged by their actual contribution to that discourse . |
| 16 | The Richard Dimbleby Award for the year 's most important personal contribution to factual television went to the former BBC political editor , John Cole . |
| 17 | In recognition of all her hard work , was invited to the Greater Nottingham Awards to Industry dinner and , much to her surprise , was presented with an award for her outstanding personal contribution to local education business initiatives . |
| 18 | A growing number of nurses are making a personal contribution to clinical research : some are even aiming for a higher degree . |
| 19 | Robson 's volume , Those Inner Cities ‘ ( 1988 ) , although an authoritative contribution to this debate , in accepting common sense constructions of social problems ( e.g. the section in Chapter 1 on ‘ Crime and unrest ’ ) stubbornly ignores the reality of politics and uncritically reproduces the inner city as a space outside society . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And in encouraging the biblical movement , Pius XII had made an indirect contribution to liturgical renewal of equal significance . |
| 23 | The Centre , developed as part of PNP , made a significant and welcome contribution to professional development in the Authority . |
| 24 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 25 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 26 | If I have thereby diminished Carr and Rees 's very valuable contribution to this subject , then I am sincerely sorry . |
| 27 | A further major difference was in the two men 's attitudes towards tribal peoples — whom Wallace recognized as fascinating equals , rather than as " a lower order of the human race " , which was Darwin 's perhaps unwitting contribution to twentieth-century racism . |
| 28 | It is the pendentive which represents the great Byzantine contribution to structural form and enabled the large domed structures of Europe , from Russia to southern France , to be built . |
| 29 | Since the third function has often been presented as a negative contribution to economic growth , it is also discussed in the following chapter . |
| 30 | 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 . |