Example sentences of "play a major role in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both the form and the substance of his approach rapidly assumed an authoritative status and have played a major role in shaping the dominant tradition . |
| 32 | Following intervention by Sweden ( which had played a major role in initiating the US-PLO dialogue in 1988 ) , the PLO issued a statement on June 11 which declared that the organization remained " against any military action which targets civilians , regardless of the nature of such actions , and we condemn it " . |
| 33 | De Soto had played a major role in re-establishing the confidence of the international financial community in Peru , damaged under García , and had been involved in the drafting of a bilateral anti-drugs agreement signed with the USA in May 1991 [ see pp. 38187-88 ] . |
| 34 | After 1534 , Henry began to issue ecclesiastical injunctions on his own authority ; in 1535 his secretary of state , Thomas Cromwell , who had already played a major role in engineering the break with Rome , was appointed vicegerent or vicar-general of the church . |
| 35 | The Council may have played a major role in planning the transfer of the Visigoths to Aquitaine . |
| 36 | The Institute has played a major role in focusing attention on the key issues involved in road pricing through two reports under the title : ‘ Paying for Progress ’ . |
| 37 | The Institute has played a major role in focusing attention on the issues |
| 38 | The Enterprise Centre has played a major role in changing the culture of the University by the provision of a range of staff development courses for senior management and academic staff . |
| 39 | They carry a low degree of CD because , being context-dependent , they do not play a major role in pushing the communication forward . |
| 40 | If there could be more attempts like this to show mentally handicapped lives in their normality , rather than in a sensational way , the media could play a major role in helping the public to understand more about the lives that handicapped people lead ; that they are not all anguish and broken dreams , but often constructive , fulfilling and as life enhancing as anyone else 's . |
| 41 | A particular emphasis will be placed on reaching the small business sector where the TEC 's expertise can play a major role in helping to nurture start-ups and rapidly growing small companies which provide the majority of new jobs . |
| 42 | In this introductory article Pelham Hawker takes a look at some of the problems associated with diesel engine vehicles and outlines JM 's new diesel catalyst production facility that will play a major role in tackling these issues . |
| 43 | This will consist of the people involved in the technological change and they will play a major role in deciding what strategy to adopt and in following that strategy through . |
| 44 | Therefore , cell volume regulatory mechanisms might also play a major role in balancing ion fluxes across the two membranes . |
| 45 | In the UK , the NCC could play a major role in supplementing ADAS advice whether or not statutory sites ( e. g . |
| 46 | However , with larger samples , and a focus upon those most likely to benefit ( severely demented people living alone and without wholly involved informal carers , yet not requiring 24-hour-a-day care ) , a scheme such as the Home Support Project could play a major role in delaying the need for institutional care . |
| 47 | That social support may play a major role in modifying the deleterious effects of stress on health and may also influence other aspects of health behaviour such as use of health services and the following of medical advice appears now to be widely accepted . |
| 48 | Possibly , according to some scientists , they play a major role in destroying life ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 49 | Instead national elites need to be supported by an underpinning structure of regional and local elites , and the policy-makers at these sub-national levels also play a major role in channelling diverse influences from external business and social elites into government ( Domhoff , 1967 , 1976 , 1978a ; Hunter , 1953 ) . |
| 50 | Economics play a major role in dictating a rig 's safety . |
| 51 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 52 | These circumstances play a major role in determining the variety of rearing systems found in nature . |
| 53 | Banks play a major role in reducing and eliminating such risks on behalf of their customers . |
| 54 | Though the epicuticular lipids play a major role in reducing water loss through the integument , it now seems unlikely that this depends on an oriented layer of wax molecules subject to disruption at a critical transition temperature ( Hackman , 1971 ) . |
| 55 | ‘ The ITO movement is the invisible giant of training and is playing a major role in establishing the new national vocational qualifications . |
| 56 | Consultants are playing a major role in helping companies go through the process of achieving BS5750 . |
| 57 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 58 | David was , by this time , playing a major role in developing the fast-growing U S retailing operation ; Nick was taking a larger hand in design strategy and had built a team of extremely young , artistic friends around him . |