contribute to something

Examples of contributing

contributing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Most of the new players contributing to the growth in organic production must necessarily be conventional farmers converting to organics.
Actually, they appear to the electorate as responsible parties contributing to the governance of the country.
A maximum likelihood ratio test is used to determine which covariates are significantly different from zero and thereby contributing significantly to overall survivorship.
Scientific theories are often the result of years or decades of hard work, sometimes with many scientists from different laboratories contributing.
Soon after the site was running, other members were brought to the team, each contributing valuable knowledge and expertise.
A major contributing factor is, of course, aging populations.
In this practice, all members, old or young, are responsible for contributing to the savings pool.
Writers are therefore at least partially responsible for contributing to the creation of a diasporic culture.
Education, self-rated abilities, personal goals and self-efficacy all emerge as important variables contributing to success.
For high costs, upstream capacity is not large enough for the downstream nation to free ride, so contributing to increasing upstream capacity is rational.
The interatrial septum bulged to the left, contributing further to the huge right atrium.
However, second and fourth instars were also readily attacked, together contributing almost 50% of the final number of parasitoid cocoons produced.
The project arose out of a community led approach with all members of a housing cooperative contributing to the design process.
In addition, the editors' preface (vii-xiii) supplies concise but informative descriptions of each of the contributing articles.
The tape recorders, in essence, become contributing members of a performing ensemble.
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