Example sentences of "a key role in [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Family health services authorities have a key role in helping general practitioners to achieve these outcomes .
2 The recent introduction of pilot one-stop-shops , which are intended to be the main local point of access to and promotion of all DTI services , and the diagnostic and consultancy brokerage services which are being developed to succeed the Consultancy Initiatives , will play a key role in helping firms , in particular smaller firms , to access the technology which they need as part of their business and marketing plans .
3 It will play a key role in helping to finance responsibilities accepted by developing countries under the conventions on climate change and biological diversity , which we hope will be agreed over the coming months .
4 Saunders argues that the home has a key role in providing such ontological security , a sense of refuge to which people can retreat and be themselves .
5 First elected to Parliament in 1946 , Averoff later served in various ministerial capacities most notably as Foreign Minister in 1956-63 , when he played a key role in reaching agreement on Cyprus 's independence in 1960 .
6 The former England star played a key role in getting Sunderland to Wembley , playing with 12-stitches in a shin wound and with a broken nose late in the season .
7 Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases .
8 The conflict played a key role in exacerbating tension between the Dual Alliance of Austria and Germany , on the one side , and Russia and France on the other .
9 Local communities will help design services to meet their needs , with voluntary groups playing a key role in delivering services .
10 We are giving Her Majesty 's inspectorate a key role in monitoring the quality of those permitted to carry out that public service .
11 More work on fusion-safety in preparation for giving ISPRA a key role in licensing future fusion reactors in Europe .
12 Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox .
13 This agitation is worth mentioning at this point , both because it perfectly exemplified the continuing strengths of liberal pacifism , and because its leader and organizer , E. D. Morel , was later to play a key role in sustaining British pacifism after the outbreak of war in 1914 .
14 Unlike in T-groups , the tutor , or trainer , plays a key role in briefing the group for its tasks and in directing the development of feed-back by means of questions and comments at the end of each exercise .
15 The second messenger InsP 3 has a key role in controlling both the mobilization of internal stores and the entry of external calcium .
16 The industry-backed " Competitiveness Council " , chaired by US Vice-President Dan Quayle , was reported to have played a key role in influencing Administration policy .
17 And yet the popular music Press plays a key role in shaping new styles and sounds .
18 In the process , they played a key role in shaping the world as we know it ; determining , in fact , the entire course of evolution .
19 In response to a General Consumer Council report published in 1991 , the proposed restructuring includes new arrangements for : Giving district councils a key role in shaping the development of their areas ' advice services .
20 However , we showed that the contribution which PNP appointees were able to make was inseparable from the wider management structures within which they were located , and in particular that the head played a key role in facilitating and supporting their endeavours .
21 This not-yet-class plays a key role in organizing the political forces of antiracism centred on local authorities .
22 this ideological domination plays a key role in maintaining class inequalities .
23 Although DATEC has provided external moderators , who play a key role in maintaining standards , the colleges are also encouraged to provide their own assessors to assist staff where necessary and , as DATEC regards meeting industrial needs as a prime requirement , it has encouraged the colleges to appoint industrial assessors .
24 Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy .
25 It is likely , then , that the abortion method of control was particularly applicable in specific times and places , such as in the situation in which married women worked outside the home , as in textile factories , and enjoyed a key role in determining the family 's economic stability .
26 It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation .
27 New Lord Mayor of London Francis McWiliams is said to have played a key role in persuading Mr Heseltine to turn again .
28 Following the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , Mubarak on Aug. 12 sent troops ( estimated by Le Monde of Dec. 2 at nearly 20,000 ) to Saudi Arabia , after playing a key role in persuading delegates at the Aug. 10 Arab League summit in Cairo to denounce Iraqi aggression against Kuwait and to call for its immediate withdrawal and the deployment of " Arab forces " to help Saudi Arabia [ see p. 37635 ] .
29 The Commission foresees the agency playing a key role in collecting and distributing technical , scientific and economic information already being generated by existing national organisations .
30 Although the details have not been disclosed , the Soviet Union played a key role in convincing the East Germans to let refugees holed up in West German embassies leave for the West .
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