Example sentences of "play a major role in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of WACC 's European Regional Association ( ERA-WACC ) played a major role in helping to place communication high on CEC 's working agenda . |
| 2 | Involvement of the teachers : In successful schools , the teachers were involved in curriculum planning and played a major role in developing their own curriculum guidelines . |
| 3 | Joined the Group in 1975 and played a major role in developing the Group 's significant offshore engineering activities . |
| 4 | Joined the Group in 1985 and played a major role in developing the Group 's gas turbine division . |
| 5 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 6 | Newman not only inspired Doctor Who , he also played a major role in structuring the whole fabric of British television drama in the 1960s , adding considerably to the worldwide reputation for quality it still enjoys today . |
| 7 | The youngster played a major role in looking after him and ensuring he could be cared for at home . |
| 8 | In Canada , the aims of the women 's pressure groups which played a major role in bringing about reforming legislation , have been described as follows : |
| 9 | The vigour with which Lenin pressed his own view of the Party played a major role in crystallizing the latent divisions among the Social Democrats . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , one can not escape obtaining the impression that the farming community , who stand to benefit from the financial supports and incentives available under the Directive , played a major role in defining the boundaries of the LFAs . |
| 11 | The ‘ absence ’ of international issues is , however , in many ways an illusion : one can say that if formal controversy over foreign policy was markedly absent from the campaign , international factors played a major role in shaping it , and , even more so , to affect the future course of British politics , whatever the incumbent government does . |
| 12 | While Dicey played a major role in shaping this tradition , his particular views are not to be equated with it . |
| 13 | Although Dicey 's theory played a major role in shaping the dominant tradition , his views are subsequently re-invented in the light of the requirements of this tradition . |
| 14 | The famous bull Terling Marthus , with plenty of American blood in his ancestry , was imported from South Africa and played a major role in continuing the British breed 's development . |
| 15 | Coleman claimed that his greatest contribution to the young veterinary profession was that he played a major role in securing that from 1796 appointments as veterinary surgeons ( a term used by the Standing Board of General Officers ) in the cavalry , and eventually ( 1805 ) in the artillery , were by commission rather than by warrant . |
| 16 | Many hitherto unpublished photographs accompany details of the parts played by the Royal Observer Corps , Civil Defence , Fire , Police and Ambulance services , plus the men and women who worked in the anti-aircraft emplacements , ATS , Balloon Command , and of course the RAF , who played a major role in photographing and bombing the manufacture and launch sites . |
| 17 | At the same time as setting up and equipping new residential projects , the CMHTs also played a major role in preparing and supporting residents through , for example : assessing and training individuals with a mental handicap ; enabling parents ‘ to let go ’ ; and either directly providing or facilitating continuing support for residents . |
| 18 | Gul , a former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) until 1989 , had continued since that time to play a major role in determining Pakistan 's Afghan policy . |
| 19 | It will now be for the developers , the financial institutions and others in the private sector to use their expertise and to play a major role in realising the full potential of available unused public sector land . |
| 20 | Agricultural institutions also began to play a major role in applying biological theory to the problems of agriculture . |
| 21 | By this time , 66 Squadron was fully equipped with Spitfires at Duxford , ready to play a major role in defending Britain when the Luftwaffe struck . |
| 22 | Entertainment in Japan plays a major role in establishing personal and business relationships . |
| 23 | It provides technical advice and computing facilities , printed and photocopied research material , a specialised library , a seminar programme which attracts attendance from outside Cambridge as well as within , and plays a major role in sustaining the publication of Local Population Studies . |
| 24 | The Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ( WRVS ) plays a major role in organising and delivering these meals to the homes of elderly people . |
| 25 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |
| 26 | It appears to be unlikely that reduced hydration in the minor groove plays a major role in destabilising the duplexes used in this study , although removal of bound water may be more significant in sequences containing more contiguous A-T base pairs . |
| 27 | Professor Martin Mott believes that support for a child suffering from cancer , and his or her family , plays a major role in overcoming the disease . |
| 28 | The women 's movement in the USA has played a major role in exposing the similar processes which are responsible for the creation of sexism and ageism ( and , for that matter , racism ) . |
| 29 | The Iranian government appeared to have played a major role in facilitating Keenan 's release , an article in the Tehran Times of Aug. 26 claiming that Keenan 's release was " the result of months of indefatigable efforts deployed by Iran , aimed at the freedom of all Western hostages " . |
| 30 | More recently he has played a major role in persuading the Department of Employment to publish , in co-operation with the Institute , the information pack ‘ Making the cash flow ’ . |