Example sentences of "be contributing to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 2 | Inevitably there are underlying social complexities , such as land tenure and population growth , which are contributing to the problem but there is also evidence , from locations within the drainage basin where conservation measures are being introduced , that terracing and contour farming can not only reduce the risk of erosion but also increase productivity . |
| 3 | Group members should not only feel that they are contributing to the life of the group , but that their participation is important . |
| 4 | The cause of the retention needs to be determined and therapy aimed at alleviating the stress and tension that are contributing to it . |
| 5 | To teach effectively teachers must therefore be aware of facets of the child 's life which are contributing to tension and disquiet . |
| 6 | Or or catch all scapegoat when there are these other factors involved which are contributing to health problems |
| 7 | Rapidly increasing administrative costs are contributing to reductions in service despite increased expenditure . |
| 8 | An SBU or divisional manager will be motivated to seek appropriate investments if he knows clearly what the generic strategy for his SBU is ( he would presumably have participated in determining it ) , is aware of what is expected of him in terms of building or maintaining competitive strengths , and knows that early-warning indicators will be set up to monitor how his investments are contributing to the improvement or maintenance of those specific strengths . |
| 9 | The objective of the research is to gain a better insight into the labour market processes and labour market and social policy measures which are contributing to the ‘ marginalization and exclusion of older workers ’ and , as appropriate , to make recommendations which will enable social costs to be minimized and social benefits to be maximized . |
| 10 | PLANNERS are contributing to chronic unemployment and decay in north Belfast , the Green Party has claimed . |
| 11 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 12 | This , allied to poor training , poor supervision , and problems with recruitment ( especially of women ) , means that doctors are contributing to the criminal justice system less than optimally . |
| 13 | Increasingly records managers are contributing to the system specification . |
| 14 | all you are contributing to the political debate in this country at the present moment is a quarrel about the trade union block vote in the affairs of the Labour Party . |
| 15 | Could you tell me how people outside Kuwait from that country are contributing to the war effort . |
| 16 | We all , most of us , drive cars , you know , in that sense is there some sense of guilt around that in some way we are contributing to the war . |
| 17 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 18 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 19 | erm but you 're also going to know that you 're contributing to the society erm and that even if some people in the newspapers and some politicians are dismissing unemployed people and saying that they 're scroungers , that that is n't the case for you , that you are erm making a positive input into society , probably a much more positive input than a lot of those people that are critical of erm unemployed people . |
| 20 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 21 | THE WELSH used to be a hindrance rather than a help to the All Blacks but , by giving Grant Fox permission to practise his goalkicking at the Arms Park prior to tomorrow 's game with Cardiff , they might be contributing to their own downfall . |
| 22 | This brings in sanctions against foreign companies found to be contributing to the proliferation of these weapons . |
| 23 | The statements on the left may be contributing to the adverse behaviour but your chances of confirming it are limited . |
| 24 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 25 | Enhanced inputs of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides due to this process are thought to be contributing to acidification ( Blackie and Newson 1986 ) . |
| 26 | In most cases the reasonable answer will be along the lines that those people who give information for the survey will be contributing to an overall study , the results of which will be useful for a better understanding by everyone of the general problem and will also particularly help specialists who might be interested in ( in this case ) the housewife 's day . |
| 27 | Pesticides may also be contributing to the fall of the hare . |
| 28 | But just as important , you will be contributing to the conservation and protection of England 's historic environment . |
| 29 | But just as important , you will be contributing to the conservation and protection of England 's historic environment . |
| 30 | But just as important , you will be contributing to the conservation and protection of England 's historic environment . |