Example sentences of "[vb base] play a [adj] role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , the big groups can make their own approaches but how can the small , independents hope to play a serious role in the proceedings ? |
| 2 | Ipswich 's cereal import and exports continue to play a vital role in the dock 's success . |
| 3 | CAL courses continue to play a vital role in the tuition of Banking Certificate and Pre-Associateship Route students , filling the gap left by colleges which are unable to mount evening classes because of local authority funding constraints and limited demand . |
| 4 | Under the heading of ‘ People ’ in the Chief Executive 's Report , Ralph Ellis states that ‘ The skills , commitment and professionalism of all our employees continue to play a vital role in the group 's performance . |
| 5 | Despite political division , the churches unite in their membership of the Middle East Council of Churches , and continue to play a leading role in a part of the world whose institutions are most important . |
| 6 | It is crucial to our trade and investment that we continue to play a leading role in the Community . |
| 7 | We work with the appropriate authorities to combat the abuse of alcohol , and continue to play a leading role in promoting balanced debate and communicating the benefits of moderate drinking to a wide audience . |
| 8 | Findings show that A-levels continue to play a dominant role in regulating entry to Higher Education . |
| 9 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 10 | Without considering Prague School theory in detail , I shall therefore look at its use of these two concepts , both of which have played a crucial role in modern thinking about literature . |
| 11 | Experiments on animals have played a crucial role in revealing the disease mechanism in paralysing autoimmune conditions , and some of these experiments are still in progress in Oxford . |
| 12 | In the West , techniques such as artificial insemination have played a crucial role in the drive for greater productivity such as higher milk-yields , leaner meat and bigger litters . |
| 13 | It should therefore be possible for some colleges , particularly those whose staff have played a substantial role in the development , to use the material produced and offer new courses based on HN Units in session 1989–90 . |
| 14 | Alan Walker argues that the social security policies have played a central role in puffing people on the margins of society , forcing them into retirement and then providing them with a pension which reduces many older people to economic dependency and even poverty . |
| 15 | To derive this inequality , Bell made two assumptions : ( a ) the effects of a measurement at A do not affect the measurement at B and vice versa , and ( b ) all the variables describing the two particles are independent of the settings of the apparatus at A and B. Both seem very reasonable requirements , which indeed have played a central role in the development of physics since the time of Isaac Newton . |
| 16 | The banks have played a central role in this industrial restructuring . |
| 17 | Traditionally doctors have played a small role in the overall management of these types of injuries after the initial stages . |
| 18 | The police have played a key role in the development of this configuration . |
| 19 | This was a particularly important factor in the conversion of intellectuals , particularly writers and artists , who have played a key role in the dissemination of Marxism in Latin America . |
| 20 | NERC scientists were the first to discover the hole in the ozone layer , and have played a key role in UN-backed climate change research . |
| 21 | The world 's northern , or boreal , forests have played a key role in mitigating the greenhouse effect by soaking up huge quantities of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 22 | Although the peasantry have not often been prompted to rebellion , they have played a major role in a national revolution in two Latin American countries , Mexico and Cuba . |
| 23 | As Hulme has pointed out , this hypothesis takes no account of the possibility of influence from external factors such as global climatic change and the imperfectly understood ocean-atmosphere interrelationships which , as has been discussed in section 1.2.2 , have played a major role in the longer-term glacial-interglacial cycle . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For some years now Yamaha have played a major role in digital sound processors and for the new season they have produced several new models . |
| 26 | Housing subsidies in the past have sometimes favoured rural areas , but Shucksmith believes that the higher building costs have not been matched , and that ‘ it is clear that central government policies have played a major role in frustrating council housing in rural areas , both through the overall financial allocation to rural areas , and through the constraints imposed on individual developments … . ’ |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reductions in personal taxation have played a major role in the revival of enterprise and the increase in risk taking , productivity and output that we have achieved in the past decade ? |
| 28 | Statistical returns have played a vital role in the ability to present the activities of the service , nationally and locally in a simple understandable format . |
| 29 | These figures for acquisitions mean that general insurance companies have played a significant role in channelling funds from ‘ surplus ’ units towards the government ; they have played a significant part in recent years in financing the PSBR . |
| 30 | Much later , bacteriophages were found to transfer genetic information , from one bacterium to another , so they became immensely important tools for geneticists and have played a fundamental role in understanding the functions of deoxyribonucleic acid ( see Chapter 11 ) . |