Example sentences of "be play a [adj] role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an integrated approach , in which education encompasses more than schooling , is essential if educators are to play a positive role in rural development . |
| 2 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 3 | Appreciating that the RAF would be playing a dominant role in manning Britain 's nuclear deterrent , Eden had appointed Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson to the post . |
| 4 | In Mozambique , the church has been playing a positive role in the process leading towards peaceful change in that country . |
| 5 | He was briefed on how our skills are playing a key role in servicing the world 's nuclear energy industry and that there is significant potential for business in the global market . |
| 6 | Informal workers are playing a key role in the return to pre-1930s labour relations in the West . |
| 7 | A former British Steel employee , nonconformist preacher and member of the Round Table , he is the most local of the candidates and local issues are playing a major role in his electioneering . |
| 8 | Consultants are playing a major role in helping companies go through the process of achieving BS5750 . |
| 9 | The ambitions of the northern nobility were to play a crucial role in national politics at the end of the century . |
| 10 | It also brought European immigrants , who were to play a crucial role in the introduction of Marxist ideas to Latin America , flooding into these countries , where newly built ports and railways were facilitating the spread of new political theories . |
| 11 | That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | The Princess of Wales is to play a leading role in a charity caring for the homeless , it was announced yesterday . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats were seeking three places on the 24-member body , which is to play a consultative role in securing adequate resources for the EC 's regional communities . |
| 16 | ‘ If geography is to play a full role in the study of environmental problems it is important that greater stress be given to the biosphere , which constitutes a vital resource base for man , and which has been altered more extensively by human activities than most other elements of the environment . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The ITO movement is the invisible giant of training and is playing a major role in establishing the new national vocational qualifications . |
| 18 | Not only is he captain of the club , but he is playing a major role in the Dungannon team 's bright start to the All Ireland League . |
| 19 | Bifano claimed that Cetia is playing a key role in validating PowerPC microprocessor designs still being developed at the Somerset Center in Austin , Texas . |
| 20 | As Nicholas Booth reports , Britain is playing a prominent role in a complex satellite which could unveil the mysteries of the Earth 's resources The Euro-eyes of the world . |
| 21 | Far from being on the shelf , the school library is playing a central role in the delivery of the national curriculum in secondary schools — actively used by teachers , an asset for the school and a haven of pastoral support for students . |
| 22 | Losing Out maintains that the widening of class differences along a whole front has largely been brought about by the Government 's ‘ success , in redistributing income and wealth towards the haves to the exclusion of the have-nots , and that this widening of class differences is playing a crucial role in the emergence of an underclass in Britain . |
| 23 | ‘ The Group 's engineering design expertise is playing a vital role in securing the long term profitability and safety of the North Sea . ’ |
| 24 | Fourthly , semiconductor engineering is playing a growing role in the manufacture of computers . |
| 25 | During the tumultuous years that followed , Nottinghamshire was to play a major role in the bitter conflict . |
| 26 | William Coote , who was to play a major role in social purity up to the 1920s , went through a typical adolescent conversion experience in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The SCS was to play a crucial role in this and future strike action . |
| 29 | In a letter in the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1790 , ‘ Philippos ’ , identified by Pugh as Granville Penn , who was to play a central role in the foundation of the London Veterinary College , wrote that he ‘ had often lamented the failure of the plan which the late ingenious M Bourgelat had formed for establishing a veterinary school in England ’ . |
| 30 | The idea of democracy as a threat to liberty was not new , as we have seen ; but it was to play a central role in modern liberal thinking about democracy . |