Example sentences of "play a key role in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former England star played a key role in getting Sunderland to Wembley , playing with 12-stitches in a shin wound and with a broken nose late in the season . |
| 2 | First elected to Parliament in 1946 , Averoff later served in various ministerial capacities most notably as Foreign Minister in 1956-63 , when he played a key role in reaching agreement on Cyprus 's independence in 1960 . |
| 3 | According to Martin Dolinchek , a former intelligence officer with the now defunct Bureau of State Security ( BOSS ) , South African intelligence played a key role in building the credibility of Inkatha from its launch in 1974 . |
| 4 | Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases . |
| 5 | In 1939 Morgan went to France at OC2 Air Formation Signals and played a key role in organising telecommunications between the French and British forces : for this he was appointed CBE . |
| 6 | Cecilia Ochoa of the Philippines , one of the participants of the Frankfurt meetings , played a key role in organising the Quezon City seminar , where the majority of participants were women in leadership roles . |
| 7 | Although the details have not been disclosed , the Soviet Union played a key role in convincing the East Germans to let refugees holed up in West German embassies leave for the West . |
| 8 | The conflict played a key role in exacerbating tension between the Dual Alliance of Austria and Germany , on the one side , and Russia and France on the other . |
| 9 | However , we showed that the contribution which PNP appointees were able to make was inseparable from the wider management structures within which they were located , and in particular that the head played a key role in facilitating and supporting their endeavours . |
| 10 | In the process , they played a key role in shaping the world as we know it ; determining , in fact , the entire course of evolution . |
| 11 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |
| 12 | CPRW played a key role in drafting a declaration to the Edinburgh European Summit insisting that ‘ subsidiarity ’ must ‘ guarantee EC citizens the right to a clean and healthy environment ’ . |
| 13 | During the Russo-Japanese war , out of sight , he played a key role in raising huge sums to finance Japan 's war effort . |
| 14 | It came from a number of sources , but without doubt the media played a key role in making heroin a suitable enemy . |
| 15 | Rafael Pardo Ruedas , a former government security adviser who played a key role in negotiating the demobilization and political integration of the left-wing April-19 Movement ( M-19 ) guerrillas in March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37311 ] , was appointed Defence Minister on Aug. 24 , replacing Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo . |
| 16 | Leading the attack is the Peking Municipal Party Committee , stacked with zealous ideologues who played a key role in suppressing the student movement . |
| 17 | Of course , one technical advance that emanated from Cornish mining played a key role in stimulating the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago . |
| 18 | Britain was later found guilty of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights and the ruling played a key role in forcing the Government to put MI5 on a statutory footing and create two tribunals to deal with complaints . |
| 19 | These kinds of problems were not envisaged in the seminal work of economists such as Walt Rostow , writing in the 1950s , and Hollis Chenery , writing in the 1960s , whose work played a key role in justifying the early stages of development assistance . |
| 20 | This agitation is worth mentioning at this point , both because it perfectly exemplified the continuing strengths of liberal pacifism , and because its leader and organizer , E. D. Morel , was later to play a key role in sustaining British pacifism after the outbreak of war in 1914 . |
| 21 | And yet the popular music Press plays a key role in shaping new styles and sounds . |
| 22 | this ideological domination plays a key role in maintaining class inequalities . |
| 23 | Unlike in T-groups , the tutor , or trainer , plays a key role in briefing the group for its tasks and in directing the development of feed-back by means of questions and comments at the end of each exercise . |
| 24 | Technology also plays a key role in lowering our costs . |
| 25 | It plays a key role in keeping city streets on the move and is even the object of the best modern designers ' desire . |
| 26 | New Lord Mayor of London Francis McWiliams is said to have played a key role in persuading Mr Heseltine to turn again . |
| 27 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 28 | The industry-backed " Competitiveness Council " , chaired by US Vice-President Dan Quayle , was reported to have played a key role in influencing Administration policy . |
| 29 | Referring to the Autumn Statement 's firm limits on public sector wage increases , its public spending ceilings and its priority for programmes that would help the economy , Mr Lamont said those measures had played a key role in putting Britain on course for recovery and would be continued . |
| 30 | Luck has always played a key role in doing the pools , but half the fun was thinking that skill mattered . |