Example sentences of "[verb] a vital role " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Community enterprises provide a vital role in enabling communities to develop all kinds of initiatives to deal with economic , social and environmental issues . ’ |
| 2 | Rejecting Galen 's theory , that blood passes directly from right to left ventricle , he proposed a vital role for the lungs , where a vital spirit emerged from the mixture of air and blood . |
| 3 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 4 | As president of the Southern Society in 1984/85 , it was brought home to me very strongly that the district society network has a vital role to play in communications between Moorgate Place and the membership . |
| 5 | Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met . |
| 6 | In so doing , we recognise that CCW has a vital role to play in the immediate future , but we also recognise that many other ‘ actors ’ must also play their part in moving Wales towards sustainability . |
| 7 | The country 's education system has a vital role to play in hallowing , protecting and furthering inequality . |
| 8 | Why do the Government believe that for people on low incomes in employment the social security system , especially through family credit , has a vital role to play , yet for people on low incomes in education the social security system , through housing benefit , plays no role ? |
| 9 | Every member of the team has a vital role to play in ensuring that this happens . |
| 10 | It has a vital role in promoting the use of machine-readable data particularly amongst historians who have hitherto not used this type of material . |
| 11 | The European Community has a vital role to play : increasing European investment in science and technology ; promoting joint ventures between companies and countries ; reducing duplication ; investing in technology transfer and diffusion ; and raising the standards of basic science and technological education in schools , colleges and universities . |
| 12 | The Community has a vital role to play — but it needs more power and resources . |
| 13 | He played a vital role in setting up the Australian National Trust , and was president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the breaking of the German Enigma codes , which became known as the Ultra secret , played a vital role in winning the war and was the only good thing to come out of MI6 . |
| 15 | Thorpe played a vital role in defence and with Cleverly and Colston keeping the score moving . |
| 16 | Br. 191 , 27 , 1095 ) the only mention of protection against poison gas — which played a vital role in World War I — is a photograph of troops wearing a primitive cloth helmet which rapidly became redundant . |
| 17 | As the fund entered its second century , it still played a vital role in the welfare of the patients . |
| 18 | From Catania , where they played a vital role in their country 's successful bid for a place in next year 's World Sevens finals , the two Taiwanese stars , flanker Jon Teng Sing and winger Chyan Shuonn Mae , headed for Paris to join the multi-national FIRA selection which made a four-match , two-test tour to Namibia . |
| 19 | The original owner played a vital role in the most versatile design and layout features . |
| 20 | Whilst independent of any group or school of musical ethos , he nevertheless played a vital role in the development of music this century , both as a composer and teacher , combining exotic rhythms with Western harmonies and a continuous preoccupation with birdsong and Catholicism ; these elements are most effectively combined in his epic St Francis of Assisi , premièred at the Paris Opera in 1983 . |
| 21 | He played a vital role because the Lords were central to Unionist tactics and because the only alternative leaders there — Selborne or Curzon — had each alienated some Unionist peers by their actions in 1911 . |
| 22 | A museum of economic botany was opened in 1847 , and in later decades Kew played a vital role in the spread of useful plants around the British empire . |
| 23 | Brandt 's emphasis on the annual variation of light and nutrients was modified by Alexander Nathansohn ( 1878–1940 ) , who pointed out that the vertical circulation of water played a vital role in bringing nutrients to the surface . |
| 24 | He sought a monopoly of the coal trade , with its lucrative market in Dublin , and to this end he played a vital role in developing the harbour facilities in Whitehaven . |
| 25 | In all these areas , stations played a vital role as the staging posts of industrial supply and demand . |
| 26 | Andrew Square Office played a vital role in helping Scotland win the Team Award in the Royline Quarterly Awards . |
| 27 | Small towns ( population less than 5,000 in 1801 ) played a vital role in provincial Britain and France as marketing , craft and service centres . |
| 28 | Situated on the banks of the River Mondego , on an important crossroads , it has for centuries played a vital role in the life of the centre of the country . |
| 29 | In Germany the bureaucracy played a vital role in the subordination of society and the creation of elites through which the regime played off one group against another , enabling ‘ a minority to terrorize the majority ’ ( Neumann 1944 , p. 367 ) . |
| 30 | An RAF base has said farewell to a plane which played a vital role during the Gulf War . |