Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] contributing to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barriers and handicaps were always contributing to the alienation he bemoaned and yet instinctively courted . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the Northern Polar Institute claimed that nuclear tests on the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya were also contributing to the seals ' deaths . |
| 3 | But quite different ideas were also contributing to the formation of modern sociology . |
| 4 | I spent it on a bike , carried on doing a paper round , and by the time I was 14 , I was already contributing to the family coffers . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , as late as the 1740s , the British government was still contributing to the cost of housing the now permanent Russian representatives in London at a rate proportional to their diplomatic rank — £200 a year for ministers-resident , £400 for envoys or ambassadors . |
| 6 | He said the gradual drop in interest rates was also contributing to the improvement in investment conditions . |