Example sentences of "significant contribution " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Britain has consistently made significant contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations in many parts of the world , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The community , parents and pupils themselves have significant contributions to make . |
| 3 | All are making significant contributions to the breed at this time . |
| 4 | The College and its staff and graduates have made many significant contributions to the science and practice of veterinary medicine and I am delighted that this history has been written to coincide with its bi-centenary . |
| 5 | Significant contributions to Scottish memoirs were made by Teall , Flett and H. H. Thomas , sometimes in conjunction with field geologists . |
| 6 | Then came two men who made very significant contributions to the area of past-life regression . |
| 7 | Early in the 20th century , significant contributions were made to our knowledge of the cuckoo . |
| 8 | Clearly not all teachers are in a position to make significant contributions to national debate . |
| 9 | Significant contributions by Arab scholars are easily overlooked if there is the preconception that science was uniquely the product of a Hebraic-Christian culture . |
| 10 | Programmed learning made significant contributions to education , particularly in industrial and military training ( where of course motivation is fairly high and the units of information to be assimilated are uncluttered by humanistic value judgements ) . |
| 11 | But the old Gamoroi , the ‘ land-holders ’ , at Syracuse kept up their Dorian loyalties , occasionally sending numerically small but often in the event significant contributions to Sparta in her struggles at home in the fifth and fourth centuries ( see too p. 187 for the way the favour was returned ) . |
| 12 | One of the most significant contributions made by the Visby Protocol to the merchantability of the bill of lading was the ‘ conclusive effect ’ amendment to the Hague Rules . |
| 13 | Hence , it is interesting that , while the historical account of social policy tended to stress a variety of significant contributions to policy , building constructively on the past — the 1911 National Insurance Act , the 1944 Education Act , the 1946 National Health Service Act — perhaps a key theme in modern writings on the policy process is the absence of rational forward planning but in its place a phenomenon that has been called ‘ disjointed incrementalism ’ . |
| 14 | Many other languages fed into the movement and made significant contributions : the secular discourse of anti-statism and personal rights , the tactics of pressure group politics , even the heavily patriarchal morality of the newly enfranchised labour aristocrats in the industrial north . |
| 15 | In addition several postgraduate students have made significant contributions to the project . |
| 16 | It was decided to have two selectors who have made significant contributions to contemporary art ; one artist and one critic . |
| 17 | His educational achievements , lack of a major trade-union base , and personal idiosyncrasies inhibited his effectiveness as a labour leader , but did not prevent him from making significant contributions to his class and time . |
| 18 | Burck and Lechner also made significant contributions to German Passion music . |
| 19 | any problems , any problems the council for er two years , there are and I think that she 's actually provided a very significant contributions to the council . |
| 20 | The expressions simplify a good deal once it is noted that the most significant contributions come from terms containing which are important when the probe passes across the region where . |
| 21 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 22 | Members of the Committee made significant contributions to low energy design in their own work . |
| 23 | However , will the Minister assure the House that the new standing committees to be established by the UKCC will include committees for the minority professions so that their significant contributions to nursing are heard and they are consulted on the issues that concern them ? |
| 24 | Indeed , the investment of the premiums from their general insurance business has made significant contributions to their overall profitability . |
| 25 | Table 3 ranks these theses by university within four equal time periods , showing those universities which have made the most significant contributions to research on Scottish geology . |
| 26 | There are specialist subdivisions of these functions and a number of other departments which have significant contributions to make but are left out to avoid complexity in the diagram . |
| 27 | In more enlightened organisations interdisciplinary teams have enabled records managers to acquire sufficient knowledge of the technology to make significant contributions to both how particular technologies are used , and to the development of the wider IM strategy . |
| 28 | Since 1979 , it has announced special awards to senior women in the visual arts and also mid-career achievement awards for significant contributions to the Women 's Caucus for Art of to the furthering of its goals . |
| 29 | The Coulson Chair was established in the knowledge that Theoretical Chemistry was making significant contributions to Physical , Organic , and Inorganic Chemistry besides becoming an established field in its own right , and it was envisaged that the professor might choose to be associated with the work of any of the laboratories . |
| 30 | The categories of speech and thought presentation are perhaps the most significant contributions made by stylistics to the understanding of narrative fiction , adding depth to the analysis of narrative point of view , and enabling precise analysis of the very subtle movements between commentary and focalisation in the narrative voice . |