Example sentences of "[noun] played a crucial [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members . |
| 2 | Three years later the introduction of a new registration system for despatches and telegrams played a crucial role in changing the position of the more senior officials , the first-division clerks , and giving them , far more than in the past , a share in policy-making . |
| 3 | In an address to the English Association , Henry Newbolt had himself expressed his antipathy to institutions of any kind ( see p.32 ) , yet both Newbolt and the Association played a crucial role in the preparation of this government report . |
| 4 | Staff in Lothian 's Finance Department played a crucial part in questioning predictions of reform costs and savings produced for the Government by consultants Touche Ross . |
| 5 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said Peake played a crucial role in away wins over Sheffield Wednesday and Port Vale last week . |
| 6 | Teesside TEC met all the Government guarantees on training places for long-term unemployed amd played a crucial role in the development of the original City Challenge bids from Middlesbrough and Stockton . |
| 7 | The theory that success breeds success is particularly appropriate to the rise of headhunting : the early searches played a crucial part in promoting the concept of executive search as a necessary tool of modern business , acceptable in even the most conservative American Boardrooms . |
| 8 | Pundits who believed the Falklands factor played a crucial part in her 1983 victory were astounded by the size of the third straight Conservative victory , five years after victory in the South Atlantic . |
| 9 | Yet programmed learning played a crucial role in directing attention to a new way forward . |
| 10 | This was because the state played a crucial role in segregating immigrants into twilight zones as a result of its making council housing available mainly to the white working class . |
| 11 | Japan played a crucial role in the chain of events leading to the Korean War . |
| 12 | This haunting ancient city played a crucial role in the history of Greece . |
| 13 | But in printing especially — in literature and learning but also in scientific texts , in which accurately reproducible illustration played a crucial part — there was soon an evident asymmetry between the received and relatively rigid forms of social and cultural reproduction and this newly diverse and mobile cultural production and distribution . |
| 14 | By the late nineteenth century travel was available to the middle classes and , for Forster , travel played a crucial role in the struggle for personal freedom . |
| 15 | The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation . |
| 16 | The new popular press played a crucial role in orchestrating public opinion over the affair . |
| 17 | Roger Carter , chief executive of Edinburgh Marketing , the capital 's tourism board , agreed that Edinburgh 's liberal drinking and entertainment laws played a crucial part in the city 's promotion . |
| 18 | Hincmar of Rheims played a crucial role ; but alongside him were colleagues with similar training , shared traditions and experience . |
| 19 | The advanced military technology expertise of Shorts Brothers in Belfast played a crucial role in the war — for both sides . |
| 20 | And as late as World War II , the castle played a crucial role in Britain 's defence . |