Example sentences of "['s] contribution to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS PART of the North-West 's contribution to the 1992 ITV Telethon marathon fund-raising campaign , up to a dozen teams of 25 people will be attempting to pull Pacific Duke of Gloucester along a 150 yard stretch of track at Crewe Heritage Centre , on Saturday , July 18 . |
| 2 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's contribution to the two hundred books on the library shelves was a short story of 500 words in his own handwriting . |
| 3 | Will yesterday 's decisions mean any increase in the United Kingdom 's contribution to the European Community budget ? |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that Scotland 's contribution to the armed forces , including the TA , far exceeds its proportion of less than 9 per cent . |
| 5 | In retaliation for the economic blockade of Slovenia imposed by Serbia at the beginning of December 1989 [ see p. 37131 ] , the Slovene government on Feb. 22 decided to withhold payment of 15 per cent of the republic 's contribution to the federal budget , representing the amount designated for subsidies to the Serbian economy . |
| 6 | In return , agriculture 's contribution to the industrial and urban sectors , though quantitatively less substantial than in the prewar years , has remained important . |
| 7 | Dunbar in turn was a friend of Peter Asher , also in the charts as one half of Peter and Gordon , Westminster School 's contribution to the mid 1960s . |
| 8 | Accordingly I have looked at examples from evolutionary biology , physiology and the study of groups of organisms or of habitats , In 1982 Darwinism was defended and neo-Darwinism re-affirmed ; Evolutionary Principles is Peter Calow 's contribution to the central concept of biology . |
| 9 | Hu announced an increase in the employer 's contribution to the Central Provident Fund ( CPF , the compulsory pension scheme ) by 1 percentage point , to 17.5 per cent starting in July 1991 . |
| 10 | As a dominant feature from almost all parts of the city , it was important to consider the landscape value of the Park , both within , in terms of design criteria , and from beyond , in terms of the area 's contribution to the wider landscape . |
| 11 | Along with other newspapers , the New York Times had signalled the change of tack a year earlier , on 10 October 1990 , shortly before President George Bush met President Hafez Assad to discuss Syria 's contribution to the multinational task force confronting Saddam Hussein in the Gulf . |
| 12 | However , they keep quiet about Oldham 's contribution to the consolidated accounts by not issuing the Oldham balance sheet until after the annual meeting of MEPC . |
| 13 | Gyford argues that the dominant form of Labour politics before then was ‘ municipal labourism ’ in which officers and politicians were allied to make ‘ local government 's contribution to the post-1945 welfare state ’ ( 1985b , p. 5 ) . |
| 14 | These achievements do not exhaust Tylor 's contribution to the developing trend of functionalist logic which we can detect in these evolutionary writers . |
| 15 | In Pelling 's contribution to the Labour aristocracy debate the reader is reminded explicitly of the author 's position by comments like : |
| 16 | There was , however , no concomitant reduction in each worker 's contribution to the National Insurance Fund . |
| 17 | Because of this prolonged infectious period , the woman 's contribution to the infected population is potentially much greater than the man 's . |
| 18 | Benjamin 's contribution to the human sciences , which converges remarkably with poststructuralism , also bears the stamp of the postmodern aesthetic programme , only some 40 years avant la lettre . |
| 19 | In 1946 , however , Lean directed his first film without a Coward connection , Great Expectations , and the huge reputation and success this enjoyed coincided with the start of the long postwar decline suffered by Coward — the net result was that the writer 's contribution to the earlier films ' success became progressively marginalized , a state of affairs hardly helped by the increasing influence of French auteurist models of film analysis on British critics . |
| 20 | An example of the former is Karl Dallas 's contribution to The Electric Muse ( Dallas 1975 ) . |
| 21 | Though there is a case to be made for its use as an educational medium — and the BBC 's contribution to the Open University at Milton Keynes has been considerable , if politically questionable , and will continue despite the closure of their studios in a fine example of accountant 's false logic — this has not been the main area of impact . |
| 22 | Social workers ' contribution to the legal process is both appropriate and vital . |