Example sentences of "play a significant role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They played a significant role in initiating cultural ideas at the centre for subsequent vulgarization and dissemination throughout Russia , at first through ‘ fat ’ specialized journals and then later via the popular press . |
| 2 | ‘ The evidence of student organisers and the police is that among the marchers there were 2,000 or more members of militant groups who played a significant role in encouraging demonstrators to march towards Parliament and show aggression , ’ the report says . |
| 3 | Annesley , an authority on rare plants and trees , played a significant role in the development of the garden . |
| 4 | The amateur cricketer still played a significant role in the game . |
| 5 | The maintaining of links with co-religionists played a significant role in the formulation of James 's foreign policy . |
| 6 | Both the great nobility and the armigerous gentry , whose influence was more local , played a significant role in the organisation of military service , the gentry acting as sub-contractors in the work of raising forces . |
| 7 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 8 | In the following chapter we shall encounter another : the recovery of an atomic theory of matter , which played a significant role in the mechanization of nature . |
| 9 | This recognises that Pakistan played a significant role in the conflict through its assistance to Afghanistan resistance forces and in receiving Afghan refugees . |
| 10 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 11 | Men such as Huxley and Hooker now played a significant role in the creation of the British scientific establishment by building up a system of government support for research and education . |
| 12 | It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns . |
| 13 | ‘ The ability to derive quantative data from the core within hours of coring played a significant role in selection of drill stem test intervals and enabled Statoil to maximise the effectiveness of expensive and time-consuming critical processes . |
| 14 | The Syrian and Iranian governments , both of which had contacts and influence with the kidnappers , played a significant role in Polhill 's release . |
| 15 | Less than four years later he played a significant role in Vietnam 's ousting of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia . |
| 16 | On the eve of France 's defeat , he had actually joined a group of this kind , the " Amis de Temps Présent " , some of whose members subsequently played a significant role in the Christian resistance and in the formation of the MRP . |
| 17 | CCG 's Training Department played a significant role in the mobilisation as CCG 's Bob Rae explained , ‘ Bookkeeping and Induction sessions were run in schools in Ryedale , Scarborough and the surrounding areas . |
| 18 | I feel strongly that if the library and information profession is to play a significant role in the handling of information within business ( and other ) organisations , we really must stop pussy-footing around with weak half-baked notions ! |
| 19 | Now came the opportunity for Sylvia to play a significant role in her own treatment — something which I consider vital if the cure is to be permanent . |
| 20 | If Great Britain were still to play a significant role in military operations in Europe , massed levies would be needed . |
| 21 | Although yeast bHLH proteins that bind to the same DNA sequence as Myc and Max have been described , they are unlikely to play a significant role in our experiments . |
| 22 | The very success of material culture studies in having been so firmly integrated into the older paradigm meant that such studies become invalidated by their own historical associations , and were no longer able to play a significant role in the new anthropology . |
| 23 | It is well known , for instance , that pronominalization is rare in Japanese and it is therefore unlikely to play a significant role in signalling givenness . |
| 24 | The political and ideological ferment of the interwar period , when the ideological and cultural were fused , created the historical conditions in which intellectuals , writers and artists were no longer distanced from the social process and were to play a significant role in national and international events . |
| 25 | Although not a political party , MAAK aimed to play a significant role in Macedonian politics . |
| 26 | And she came to play a significant role in building his career . |
| 27 | Bobby Neill , who won a British featherweight title in the 1950s and went on to play a significant role in the development of such top-class boxers as Alan Rudkin and Alan Minter , has said : ‘ … hungry fighters ? |
| 28 | The office is a tangible recognition at many levels in this community of a determination to ensure that the Province plays a significant role in the Europe of the Nineties , of the Single Market and economic integration . |
| 29 | At present , though , there is little evidence that either of these pathways plays a significant role in LTP . |
| 30 | The quality of the negotiators and their approach consequently plays a significant role in the settlement that is achieved . |