Example sentences of "play a crucial role in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new popular press played a crucial role in orchestrating public opinion over the affair . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet programmed learning played a crucial role in directing attention to a new way forward . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Basically we are an experienced team , but the youngsters are going to play a crucial role in trying to keep us up there . ’ |
| 7 | Party alignments were further affected by the fact that the executive powers of the Crown were not significantly limited by the Glorious Revolution , which meant that the monarch continued to play a crucial role in shaping the pattern of politics after 1689 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The formulation and implementation of pilot , demonstration and otherwise innovative projects plays a crucial role in unlocking and mobilising the full potential of Glasgow 's assets . |
| 11 | Indeed , montage plays a crucial role in enriching the reader 's view of reality , for narrative units are arranged in such a way as to create an interplay , so that they bring fresh perspectives to bear on one another and are mutually illuminating . |
| 12 | Work with Royal Logistics Corps plays a crucial role in getting supplies and troops in and out of the war zone . |
| 13 | The growth of the popular press , which could bring news of the latest entertainment to the breakfast tables of the nation , clearly has played a crucial role in defining sport as part of a commercialized mass culture . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Enrile , 66 , a former Defence Minister in the Aquino government , had played a crucial role in forcing President Marcos from office after his 1986 election defeat by Aquino [ see pp. 34297-302 ] . |
| 16 | The cover reads , ‘ If South Africa is to achieve a non-violent transition to democracy , the police must play a crucial role in keeping the peace . |
| 17 | Factors such as temperature and acidity play a crucial role in determining how well the process works . |
| 18 | Here also banks play a crucial role in advising on the scale or timing of issues but perhaps even more important in the Japanese context , in assisting the allocation of shares . |
| 19 | Gordon Grant , for example , suggests that CMHTs play a crucial role in assisting the development of voluntary sector services , although he is cautious about the ability of teams to unlock " an unlimited capacity for care amongst voluntary groups or family carers The developmental function here clearly picks up on the prominence given to the involvement of voluntary groups and parents in the service planning process in Wales , where Grant and his colleagues are monitoring aspects of the All-Wales Strategy . |
| 20 | There is , in fact , a complex network of gene interactions , the product of one gene controlling the activity of others which involves an intimate relationship between nucleus and cytoplasm , because cytoplasmic signals play a crucial role in controlling transcription and thus determining whether genes are on or off . |
| 21 | Playing a crucial role in achieving that goal will be the firm 's new policy of making sales to end users entirely via a network of third party distributors , which Rabbit promises to support with unfailing commitment . |
| 22 | Tenison and thirteen of the bishops voted against the Occasional Conformity Bill in the Lords in December 1702 , playing a crucial role in defeating a measure which was lost by seventy-one votes to fifty-nine . |