Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a major role " in BNC.

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1 Although the central confederations of employers ' associations are usually much less involved in collective bargaining than are the industry associations , nevertheless in a few countries the peak organisations do play a major role .
2 Although the peasantry have not often been prompted to rebellion , they have played a major role in a national revolution in two Latin American countries , Mexico and Cuba .
3 As Hulme has pointed out , this hypothesis takes no account of the possibility of influence from external factors such as global climatic change and the imperfectly understood ocean-atmosphere interrelationships which , as has been discussed in section 1.2.2 , have played a major role in the longer-term glacial-interglacial cycle .
4 Both the form and the substance of his approach rapidly assumed an authoritative status and have played a major role in shaping the dominant tradition .
5 For some years now Yamaha have played a major role in digital sound processors and for the new season they have produced several new models .
6 The Tyne atmosphere , in the formation of which merchant navy officers have played a major role ( before the war transition from seamen to officer was not uncommon although it is very rare now ) , is well reproduced in a number of memoirs ( see Before the Box Boats by Captain A. W. King horn of Cullercoats , 1983 ) .
7 Housing subsidies in the past have sometimes favoured rural areas , but Shucksmith believes that the higher building costs have not been matched , and that ‘ it is clear that central government policies have played a major role in frustrating council housing in rural areas , both through the overall financial allocation to rural areas , and through the constraints imposed on individual developments … . ’
8 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reductions in personal taxation have played a major role in the revival of enterprise and the increase in risk taking , productivity and output that we have achieved in the past decade ?
9 The Unit has become a centre for collaborative research ; projects in which members of staff have played a major role include : the perceived health of attenders and non-attenders at a breast screening clinic , an evaluation of the Edinburgh Women 's Health Shop , an evaluation of the ‘ Drinkwise ’ project , a study of smoking and drinking among student nurses , and the evaluation of the Lothian Mobile Mammography Project .
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