Example sentences of "to play a key role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee , then a Group Captain commanding 904 Wing , took over the airfield at Kemajoran which was to play a key role in the repatriation of POWs and internees . |
| 2 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 3 | The list of 47 subscribers to the Odiham Society includes the name of Rev Thomas Burgess of Oxford , later to play a key role in the London committee of the society . |
| 4 | This agitation is worth mentioning at this point , both because it perfectly exemplified the continuing strengths of liberal pacifism , and because its leader and organizer , E. D. Morel , was later to play a key role in sustaining British pacifism after the outbreak of war in 1914 . |
| 5 | Function appears to play a key role in infant recognition and naming of objects ( Miller and Johnson-Laird 1976 : 229–35 ) , and , in adulthood , continues to play an important , though highly flexible , role in the description of objects in daily life ( Miller 1978 ) . |
| 6 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 7 | Widely regarded as the ANC 's most able negotiator , he was expected to play a key role in talks with the government . |
| 8 | The cytoprotective mechanism of this barrier is not yet completely understood , although surface active phospholipids have been reported to play a key role in gastric cytoprotection . |
| 9 | SAFE is also concerned at GATT 's willingness to allow the UN body , the Codex Alimentarius Commission , to play a key role in determining benchmark food standards . |