Example sentences of "have [adv] contributed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 2 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 3 | ‘ The Impressionist and the City : Pissarro 's Series ’ opened at the Dallas Museum of Art last month ( until 31 January 1993 ) and will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 7 March-6 June 1993 ) and at London 's Royal Academy of Arts ( 2 July-10 October 1993 ) , which has already contributed to this debate with its recent exhibitions of ‘ Monet in the Nineties ’ ( 1990 ) and ‘ Alfred Sisley ’ ( 1992 ) in which the later works were strongly featured . |
| 4 | The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division . |
| 5 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 6 | His citation concluded : ‘ Captain Forgrave has directly contributed to the success of the tour by his careful and thorough preparation prior to operational tasks . ’ |
| 7 | The success of such authors has probably contributed to the view that the inspiration for postmodernism in Britain has often had to come from foreign models rather than a native tradition of this form of writing , or even much of a disposition towards it . |
| 8 | Yet the dramatic expansion of sheltered housing has probably contributed to the view of this age group being especially dependent . |
| 9 | Its importance has probably contributed to the maintenance of the fabric of a traditional countryside . |
| 10 | Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result . |
| 11 | North ( 1986 ) , for example , has suggested that widespread cash-cropping of groundnuts in the Sahelian zone has obliquely contributed to desertification because farmers can not afford either to purchase fertilisers to maintain soil-nutrient status or to use a long fallow period . |
| 12 | The Lincoln is the basis of the Hungarian Pankota Red and has also contributed to the American Fort Cross . |
| 13 | The discharge of sewage from boats has also contributed to eutrophication problems in the region ( which is mainly due to runoff of fertilisers from adjacent arable land ) . |
| 14 | The independent sector has also contributed to developments in the area by setting up courses aimed at recruiting staff back to work . |
| 15 | The EC has also contributed to the restoration of the MountAthos monastery , to the reconstruction of the Chiado area in Lisbon , destroyed by the 1988 fire , and to the renovation of a building of the Coimbra University intended for the European College . |
| 16 | The increased scale of enterprises , combined with improvements in management methods and telecommunications , has also contributed to spatial separation of functions within the firm ( Goddard 1975 , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | He has also contributed to several other works on the subject . |
| 18 | The passing of a decade between the Royal Assent granted to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ( the 1974 Act ) and the bringing into force of all sections of this piece of legislation on 19 May 1985 has substantially contributed to the general confusion . |
| 19 | Instead , economic privation as the recession bit deeper , and lasted longer than previous downturns in the economy , has surely contributed to the extreme right 's so-far limited recovery . |
| 20 | For television he has regularly contributed to Central 's multi-award winning series INSPECTOR MORSE . |
| 21 | Moreover , the creation of political boundaries in the Sahelian countries during colonial and post-colonial times has actually contributed to the disruption of a carefully regulated system of pastoral movements and pastoral-agricultural symbiosis , leading to environmental deterioration and desertification ( Franke & Chasin 1980 : Ch.3 & p.98 ) . |
| 22 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 23 | The guilt people feel at having perhaps contributed to the illness or accident can be overwhelming . |
| 24 | Natural infection may have also contributed to the high seroprevalences in the IPV group 13–17 months after vaccination , although evidence from previous studies in poliomyelitis-free areas suggests that this finding is more likely to be due to brisk secondary responses in children who had been primed with OPV and who later received poliovirus antigen parenterally in the form of IPV . |
| 25 | This may have partly contributed to the next important influence which has been brought to bear on hearing children read — the move towards parental involvement . |
| 26 | In so far as this tendency brought with it loss of belief in survival , the Evangelicals may be said to have unintentionally contributed to the process . |
| 27 | The inaccessibility of rural areas , the lack of public transport facilities , the dispersed and sparse population had all contributed to the failure of many courses to enrol students at levels within the prescribed minima for grant-aid and the thresholds for the Board 's Regulations were demonstrably too high under such circumstances . |
| 28 | The conclusion of an alliance with France in 1894 had already contributed to the favourable publicity which Russian securities received in the West . |
| 29 | Alex Montgomery , Export Director , presented her with a crystal decanter and a cheque on behalf of colleagues who had generously contributed to the leaving present . |
| 30 | Government policy , stated the party 's Economic Secretariat , had directly contributed to the surge of personal debt . |