Example sentences of "[verb] a key [noun] " in BNC.

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1 John Prescot has won a key post in the new shadow cabinet , moving from transport to employment .
2 Devon lost the services of Peter Roebuck just as he was becoming a key member of their side .
3 AIDS victim John McGugan has died after making British legal history — by becoming a key witness in a forthcoming sex pervert trial from beyond the grave .
4 However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances .
5 Although considered a key element , motivation training is just a part of the Celomer programme .
6 Privatization was considered a key part of the government 's economic strategy to reduce the public-sector deficit in order to permit Italy to participate in European Community ( EC ) economic and monetary union from 1997 .
7 Aah ! ’ anthem , was never considered a key target for Ferguson .
8 Fforde highlights a key difficulty for his argument by pointing out that in the debates about the issue which dominated Edwardian Conservatism — tariff reform — the Conservative Party developed a language which ‘ employed a great deal of anti- laissez faire rhetoric and espoused policies which involved state expansion ’ .
9 Because of the difficulties of getting it all together , the chairperson or co-ordinator has a key part to play ( see Chairing meetings on page 28 ) .
10 ‘ Every individual here tonight has a key part to play in this great plan .
11 Headquarter 's has a key contribution to make in recruitment .
12 The denigration of office work as inferior , non-manual labour , has a key place in the sexual transformation of clerical work around the turn of the century .
13 From the perspective of psychoanalytic theory , religion has a key importance in human societies .
14 The French tyre manufacturer has a key role to play in the Bugatti , and is developing the world 's first ultra-high performance tyre specifically for four-wheel drive supercars .
15 In pursuing this aim , IDB 's Marketing Development Division has a key role to play through the wide range of support which it can offer to all sizes of companies in Northern Ireland involved in manufacturing or providing internationally tradeable services .
16 The Teacher Placement Service has a key role as any in this .
17 The chemist has a key role to play in protecting resources , health and the environment , and also preventing the ‘ dumping ’ in developing countries of chemicals rejected as too dangerous for use in the industrial world .
18 It is not surprising to find , therefore , that the womb has a key role in many religious teachings .
19 The second messenger InsP 3 has a key role in controlling both the mobilization of internal stores and the entry of external calcium .
20 Dreaming has a key role in psychoanalytic theory .
21 Medical audit has a key role in negotiating and monitoring standards of asthma care .
22 The financial controller has a key role to play in facilitating this learning process by improving the way in which the cost-accounting system reveals what really are the cost-drivers ( i.e. the factors really leading to the incidence of specific types of costs ) .
23 Saunders argues that the home has a key role in providing such ontological security , a sense of refuge to which people can retreat and be themselves .
24 There is obviously much uncertainty in these broad generalizations , but geomorphic evidence has a key role to play in relating such global tectonic models to the geological history of the continents .
25 We believe that N C V O has a key role to play in involving the voluntary sector in representing your concerns .
26 LOCAL government has a key role in making the world a better place , according to a Middlesbrough council official .
27 The Institute has a key role to play in bringing the expertise of transport professionals to bear on this issue .
28 In return for the support of the nominally social democratic National Progressive Revolutionary Party ( Panpra ) , which commanded a key block of votes in the Chamber , Bazin gave the party two Cabinet posts and agreed to restore all locally elected officials to office , including Evans Paul , an outspoken critic of the military and the FNCD mayor of Port-au Prince .
29 He told a key meeting in Dunkirk at the end of August : ‘ You must find the nerve to ask for a better treaty ; one that hands less power to Brussels , controls bureaucracy more stringently and leaves France her autonomy in foreign and monetary policy . ’
30 THE world will not mind its own business or permit exemptions when countries violate basic human rights , the UN secretary-general and America 's Secretary of State told a key conference yesterday .
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