Example sentences of "had an important role to play [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wives had an important role to play on many farms . |
| 2 | On January 21st President Bush held out an olive branch : some of the Arab countries supporting Iraq , he said , still had an important role to play in the future Middle East . |
| 3 | None the less , Brazil 's debt had an important role to play in creating downward pressure on the currency . |
| 4 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 5 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 6 | Such considerations were probably crucial before initiation ritual developed to deal with the conflicts between sons and fathers ; but even after such conflicts had become institutionalized and ritualized neoteny had an important role to play in postponing the age of initiation by opening up that gap in human psycho-sexual development which Freud called the latency period and which , as we shall see , is an important factor in considering the social and mental health of modern societies . |
| 7 | Americans still had an important role to play in war-ravaged Europe in ensuring that Germany did not again threaten the security of Europe , and in being on hand to help counterbalance if necessary the enigmatic and possibly dangerous USSR . |