Example sentences of "contribute to [art] [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He emphasized that respectable ratepayers would object to contributing to the cost of giving artificial security to their neighbours ' looseness of life . |
| 5 | If they relate only to markets within the Territories will contribute to the cost of carrying out the necessary work at a rate to be negotiated . |
| 6 | At this stage in the study , there were still many questions unanswered about detailed aspects of the new legislation , and it was also necessary to find out more about College activities and functions , particularly those that could eventually contribute to the exercise of balancing costs with income . |
| 7 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 8 | For example , Just and Carpenter [ 1987 ] showed that typically only 68% of the words may be fixated during normal reading , suggesting that higher level knowledge must contribute to the processing of remaining 32% . |
| 9 | The planning system , and the preparation of development plans in particular , can contribute to the objectives of ensuring that development and growth are sustainable . |
| 10 | The project will contribute to the methodology of evaluating policy by the use of multilevel modelling , a technique that allows influences at different levels ( such as student , school , education authority ) to be more precisely estimated . |
| 11 | The Department of Industry contributed to the cost of developing a prototype , between £600 000 and £700 000 . |
| 12 | John Watts , one of the Apothecaries who had contributed to the cost of erecting the wall , was in 1680 appointed to manage garden affairs at a salary of £50 per annum , with additional labouring help . |
| 13 | In particular I think it should be recognised that the role of the unions , NALGO and G M D in helping that process of change has been quite fundamental and for that reason , because we appreciate and value the essential way in which the unions have contributed to the process of changing the organisation I consider that the they much trailed proposals from the opposition groups to cut , or in the other case , to reduce the NALGO office are quite misguided . |
| 14 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 15 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
| 16 | Bob said : ‘ We have to generate enough income to pay for our able-bodied staff , our overheads and have enough left over to contribute to the cost of employing disabled people . |
| 17 | Meanwhile GPU wants other electricity companies to contribute to the cost of cleaning up the site . |
| 18 | Other factors , of course , contribute to the difficulty of effecting a corporate approach . |
| 19 | ( In present schemes , under the auspices of the National Rivers Authority , polluters merely contribute to the cost of monitoring discharge levels and pay penalties for breaching them . ) |
| 20 | Living on income support is for many a very negative experience — the intrusive questioning about income and about personal relationships ; the difficulties of queuing with young children ; the problems when benefits are delayed or lost ; the lack of control over income as more and more direct deductions are made — all these and more contribute to the difficulties of bringing up children alone on a low income . |