Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] contribution " in BNC.
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| 1 | By avoiding simplistic assumptions about the united male medical profession manipulating supine female patients , she makes a major contribution to our understanding of a complex part of medical history . |
| 2 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
| 3 | It represents an important contribution to the ongoing debate between non-disabled feminists and the disabled people 's movement about the construction of community care . |
| 4 | He will not talk at the committee unless he has a genuine contribution to make to the discussion . |
| 5 | Sexton , the security man at Gate 2 , will perform effectively if he believes he has a unique contribution to make . |
| 6 | Each individual must believe that the organisation has desirable , significant objectives , and that he makes an indispensable contribution to the objectives of the organisation . |
| 7 | on balance credit is beneficial , since it makes a useful contribution to the living standards and the economic and social well-being of the majority of British people . |
| 8 | For both Estate Agents and Banking it makes a negative contribution ( -1.09 and -0.35 respectively ) . |
| 9 | Robert Jackson , for example , envisages a " middle way " as a " study of religions conducted in such a way that it makes a distinctive contribution to the pupils ' development of a coherent and personally satisfying set of beliefs and values " ( Jackson 1987 : 17 ) . |
| 10 | In this sense , it makes a significant contribution toward a third-generation effort ( perhaps still short of definitive ) that will treat the recombinant-DNA controversy as a not-to-be overlooked early warning of profound social change to come — as the achievements of this scientifically enormously productive century are built into new foundations for human society . |
| 11 | It makes a significant contribution to the local economy through its generation of manufactured goods and the fact that its staff pay tax and national insurance . |
| 12 | Yet in both its anti-art and anti-dada stages it makes a positive contribution to modern art . |