Example sentences of "[vb past] an important role in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yard was a product of piecemeal development over many years and found an important role in the air-braked wagonload network ( Speedlink ) from the 1970s onwards . |
| 2 | He played an important role in the first three tries as well as kicking four goals , one from the touchline . |
| 3 | Apart from some of the actual buildings , little remains in the way of water wheels and machinery , to remind us of what was clearly once an important chain of mills which played an important role in the development of Cheltenham . |
| 4 | You will be able to explore those formative years when Sooty played an important role in the development of children 's entertainment . |
| 5 | The rise in recorded offences in many parts of the Western world in the first half of the nineteenth century played an important role in the original formulation of this belief , which is still accepted by many scholars . |
| 6 | Between 1908 and 1948 several groups negotiated the needs of older people , among them the National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) , the National Spinsters ' Pensions Association ( which played an important role in the reduction of women 's pension age from 65 to 60 ) , the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations ( NFOAPA ) , and the National Old People 's Welfare Committee , established by voluntary groups during the Second World War . |
| 7 | However , few people realise that the world 's best known edible all-rounder , also played an important role in the next stage in the development of colour photography . |
| 8 | He attended the Peace Conference at Versailles in person and played an important role in the decisions reached . |
| 9 | The USA , which had emerged as the most powerful nation in the world after the First World War , played an important role in the post-war world . |
| 10 | Silver played an important role in the Harappan civilization of the Indus basin . |
| 11 | I have known her since my earliest days in publishing , when she played an important role in the launching of Paladin Books , and I have admired and learned from her every since … ’ |
| 12 | However , few people realise that the world 's best known edible all-rounder , also played an important role in the next stage in the development of colour photography . |
| 13 | A decade later Baird had the sea-going vessel Albatross especially equipped for survey work , and he played an important role in the creation of the Woods Hole laboratory later in the decade , although this was established independently of the government . |
| 14 | In their capacity as the Society 's ‘ Printers ’ ( neither was in fact a printer himself ) Martyn and Allestry played an important role in the establishment of experimental philosophy , publishing such key works as the Micrographia ( 1665 ) of Robert Hooke [ q.v. ] and the History of the Royal Society ( 1667 ) by Thomas Sprat [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | The Branch played an important role in the negotiation of a job evaluation scheme for the industry 's 30,000 technical engineering staff , who are responsible for the running of generating sets in power stations , installation and maintenance of the distribution network , construction planning , generation and transmission development , etc . |
| 16 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 17 | The subsequent spread of this strain to Manchester and other regional centres also provided strong circumstantial evidence that social contact outside hospital played an important role in the spread of this strain . |
| 18 | the Southampton Flying Boat , the Walrus Amphibian which also played an important role in the Second World War , one of the Schneider Trophy planes and the prototype Spitfire — the only version of the plane RJ Mitchell lived to see . |
| 19 | All this suggests that lack of competitive pressure felt by US business played an important role in the loss of its pre-eminent position The structure of domestic industry was probably dominated by fewer firms than in Japan or the EEC taken as a whole . |
| 20 | Similarly , the regular church-ales — boisterous forerunners of the modern church fete — fulfilled an important role in the social life of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century parish . |
| 21 | They persuaded party leaders and the party group to adopt the initiative and subsequently took an important role in the process of implementation . |