Example sentences of "play a crucial role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHEN XINHUA , the England champion from Yorkshire , played a crucial role for England at the European championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 2 | This haunting ancient city played a crucial role in the history of Greece . |
| 3 | Where both are university teachers , Federman began his career as a critic with a study of Samuel Beckett , Journey to Chaos ( 1965 ) , which played a crucial role in the formation of his attitude towards modern fiction . |
| 4 | The concept of Fortune ( i.e. Fate or Destiny ) played a crucial role in later Hellenic thought , but different views were held . |
| 5 | And as late as World War II , the castle played a crucial role in Britain 's defence . |
| 6 | He played a crucial role in the organization of rubber tappers to defend their livelihood in the Amazon against ranchers , timber merchants , land speculators and large internationally financed development projects . |
| 7 | Japan played a crucial role in the chain of events leading to the Korean War . |
| 8 | Yet programmed learning played a crucial role in directing attention to a new way forward . |
| 9 | In an address to the English Association , Henry Newbolt had himself expressed his antipathy to institutions of any kind ( see p.32 ) , yet both Newbolt and the Association played a crucial role in the preparation of this government report . |
| 10 | This was because the state played a crucial role in segregating immigrants into twilight zones as a result of its making council housing available mainly to the white working class . |
| 11 | The new popular press played a crucial role in orchestrating public opinion over the affair . |
| 12 | Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole . |
| 13 | It is now realised that lesser landowners , or gentry , played a crucial role in all aspects of medieval English history from at least the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 14 | The advanced military technology expertise of Shorts Brothers in Belfast played a crucial role in the war — for both sides . |
| 15 | The final round of the Rome talks was attended by President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe , who played a crucial role in persuading the two leaders to meet , Gaositwe K. T. Chiepe , the Botswanan External Affairs Minister , Emilio Colombo , the Italian Foreign Minister , Mario Raffaelli , the co-ordinator of the mediators , and the other mediators — the Most Rev. Jaime Gonçalves , Archbishop of Beira , André Riccardi , and Don Matteo Zuppi of the Saint Egidio Order . |
| 16 | Three years later the introduction of a new registration system for despatches and telegrams played a crucial role in changing the position of the more senior officials , the first-division clerks , and giving them , far more than in the past , a share in policy-making . |
| 17 | Teesside TEC met all the Government guarantees on training places for long-term unemployed amd played a crucial role in the development of the original City Challenge bids from Middlesbrough and Stockton . |
| 18 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said Peake played a crucial role in away wins over Sheffield Wednesday and Port Vale last week . |
| 19 | Mr Sim was chairman of the North East Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry . |
| 20 | Mr Sim was chairman of the North east Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry . |
| 21 | By the late nineteenth century travel was available to the middle classes and , for Forster , travel played a crucial role in the struggle for personal freedom . |
| 22 | Both men were from Cabinda and had been expected to play a crucial role during the September election campaign in capturing support among non-Ovimbundu ethnic groups particularly in the north . |
| 23 | As part of this process , education was expected to play a crucial role in changing attitudes , not simply in creating national unity and skills to improve the national economy . |
| 24 | ‘ Basically we are an experienced team , but the youngsters are going to play a crucial role in trying to keep us up there . ’ |
| 25 | The SCS was to play a crucial role in this and future strike action . |
| 26 | It is this group who will be the senior teachers , heads and inspectors at the beginning of the second millennium , and it will be they who will therefore have the opportunity , if they choose to take it , to play a crucial role in educational reform . |
| 27 | The ambitions of the northern nobility were to play a crucial role in national politics at the end of the century . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Polythene went into production just in time to play a crucial role in enabling radar equipment to be deployed effectively in the Battle of Britain . |
| 30 | The school is both a place and a system of education which continues to play a crucial role in preparing young people for adult and working life . |