Example sentences of "play a significant role in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annesley , an authority on rare plants and trees , played a significant role in the development of the garden . |
| 2 | The amateur cricketer still played a significant role in the game . |
| 3 | The maintaining of links with co-religionists played a significant role in the formulation of James 's foreign policy . |
| 4 | Both the great nobility and the armigerous gentry , whose influence was more local , played a significant role in the organisation of military service , the gentry acting as sub-contractors in the work of raising forces . |
| 5 | In the following chapter we shall encounter another : the recovery of an atomic theory of matter , which played a significant role in the mechanization of nature . |
| 6 | This recognises that Pakistan played a significant role in the conflict through its assistance to Afghanistan resistance forces and in receiving Afghan refugees . |
| 7 | Men such as Huxley and Hooker now played a significant role in the creation of the British scientific establishment by building up a system of government support for research and education . |
| 8 | It should be obvious from all that has been said that most small towns played a significant role in the economic life of the province , alongside the cities and major towns . |
| 9 | On the eve of France 's defeat , he had actually joined a group of this kind , the " Amis de Temps Présent " , some of whose members subsequently played a significant role in the Christian resistance and in the formation of the MRP . |
| 10 | CCG 's Training Department played a significant role in the mobilisation as CCG 's Bob Rae explained , ‘ Bookkeeping and Induction sessions were run in schools in Ryedale , Scarborough and the surrounding areas . |
| 11 | I feel strongly that if the library and information profession is to play a significant role in the handling of information within business ( and other ) organisations , we really must stop pussy-footing around with weak half-baked notions ! |
| 12 | The very success of material culture studies in having been so firmly integrated into the older paradigm meant that such studies become invalidated by their own historical associations , and were no longer able to play a significant role in the new anthropology . |
| 13 | Bobby Neill , who won a British featherweight title in the 1950s and went on to play a significant role in the development of such top-class boxers as Alan Rudkin and Alan Minter , has said : ‘ … hungry fighters ? |
| 14 | The office is a tangible recognition at many levels in this community of a determination to ensure that the Province plays a significant role in the Europe of the Nineties , of the Single Market and economic integration . |
| 15 | The quality of the negotiators and their approach consequently plays a significant role in the settlement that is achieved . |
| 16 | ‘ BP possesses first-class expertise in the subject and plays a significant role in the management of the project . |
| 17 | In view of these discrepant results it seems unlikely that coexisting HBV infection plays a significant role in the aetiopathogenesis of alcohol related liver damage , at least in areas of low HBV prevalence such as Britain . |
| 18 | The chemical processes involved are usually associated with hydration ( see Section 6.2.3.1 ) and the addition of water plays a significant role in the physical breakdown of rock . |
| 19 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 20 | Jacques Fouroux maintained a sane approach when he wrote after the Paris quarter-final : ‘ It 's true that since the beginning of the World Cup the refereeing has played a significant role in the outcome of the game , but it would be chauvinistic to say the same about the way Mr. Bishop has refereed . |
| 21 | Increase in annual temperature range on the continents as a consequence of regression of epicontinental seas might well have played a significant role in the mass extinctions of large reptiles at the end of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic . |
| 22 | As Lewis and Piachaud point out in their chapter here , unmarried women have traditionally played a significant role in the care of elderly parents and other relatives and the same appears to be true today . |
| 23 | Rhetoricians ancient and modern have noted that the word ‘ metaphor ’ comes from the Greek word metaphorein , meaning to transfer or to carry over , and the idea of transport or mobilization inherent in its original meaning has played a significant role in the conceptual evolution of the figure . |
| 24 | She has been with us since 1988 and has played a significant role in the development of CCG 's in-house marketing strategies . |
| 25 | While simple imitation fails to explain the occurrence of such novel utterances , a number of researchers have presented evidence indicating that imitation may nevertheless play a significant role in the child 's mastery of vocabulary , syntax and pragmatic functions ( Bloom et al . |
| 26 | Using the CRE dodecamer as an example we will now look at the energetics and structural aspects of B I -B II transitions and attempt to answer the question of whether any B II junctions can play a significant role in the solution conformation of this oligomer . |
| 27 | DOWNPATRICK are well out of the running for championship honours this season but they can still play a significant role in the destination of the Lombard and Ulster Section I trophy . |
| 28 | In many cases other people play a significant role in the acquisition of those problems — although not always deliberately . |
| 29 | The last-mentioned — marketing research agencies — play a significant role in the whole area of marketing research . |
| 30 | We play a significant role in the supervision of insurance companies and pension funds , providing a link between the supervisors and the companies and funds . |