Example sentences of "has [verb] [art] increasingly important [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Over the post decade , tax welfare has played an increasingly important part in boosting the living standards of the rich , while welfare cuts have reduced the income of those at the bottom of the pile .
2 Citizenship , regarded in this way , has played an increasingly important part in political thought and controversy during the past few decades .
3 The Pharmacopoeia has played an increasingly important role in defining common criteria and control standards for medicinal substances and is now developing analytical methods for solvent and pesticide residues and strengthening its role in the standardisation of biologicals such as blood products and vaccines .
4 In recent years , computer technology has played an increasingly important role in storing and retrieving chemical information ( see figure 4.1 ) .
5 Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers .
6 CROSS-BORDER portfolio investment has become an increasingly important feature of global capital markets .
7 Chinese leaders are keen to strengthen what has become an increasingly important relationship with Tokyo , and have sought to use the five-day visit to invite Emperor Akihito later in the year .
8 He stresses the complexity of interrelations and points to an increase in the importance of territorial politics ( i.e. based on a local government area ) at just the time when — in the face of severe economic problems — local ( welfare ) expenditure has become an increasingly important element in central ( economic ) planning .
9 The idea that people operate ‘ strategies ’ in which they assess a range of options , and act to maximize their opportunities , has become an increasingly important insight in historical work on the family , and one which accords an active role to human beings in constructing their own lives , rather than seeing individuals at the mercy of large scale social forces ( Morgan , 1985 , p. 175 ) .
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