Example sentences of "play a significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The churches played a significant part in dealing with this condition and the parish schools were the most important providers of elementary education . |
| 2 | His side played a significant part in making this a good match . |
| 3 | The pattern of social and mental health problems indicates GPs were more sensitized to mental health and illness , and that this played a significant part in choice of referral . |
| 4 | As one of the ‘ specialists ’ involved in assessment subsequent to GP referral , ASWs clearly played a significant part in diverting these women from possible compulsory admission . |
| 5 | Their gradual integration with the Blackpool tramway has been documented elsewhere in this book , suffice to say they played a significant part in the Promenade service until their demise in 1937 . |
| 6 | In this and the following story , religious belief played a significant part in what does , or does not seem possible for the client to accept . |
| 7 | Have anxiety , fear , guilt , anger , personal embarrassment or ridicule played a significant part in what you have just been analysing ? |
| 8 | In the other belligerent countries , fewer women worked in munitions , but they played a significant part in the total war effort . |
| 9 | This consensual bargaining process also played a significant part in determining the allocation of resources between individual Area Boards on matters on which their interests differed . |
| 10 | In so far as the RHA did feel impelled to act , the constant worry about shortages of staff and inadequacies of conditions at its mental hospitals , making neglect or abuse of patients more likely to occur , played a significant part in decision-making . |
| 11 | He also wore ‘ a purple camblet kilt ’ : sartorial defiance : the kilt had been banned after the ‘ 45 in which the Macleods played a significant part , not least in assisting Bonnie prince Charlie to escape . |
| 12 | Meteorology is probably the most international of the sciences , and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition of ready co-operation between countries that became the accepted norm . |
| 13 | There is little doubt that the national crisis of 1940–41 played a significant part in turning plans for comprehensive welfare from high-minded aspiration into practical legislation . |
| 14 | The carpets , together with a Chenille loom and a selection of valuable hand painting carpet designs , will be displayed in an area representing Glasgow 's industrial heritage of which the well-known Templeton 's factory played a significant part . |
| 15 | Wherever the initiatives for these developments came from — and John Holden at Manchester played a significant part — Brinson is emphatic that : |
| 16 | The picture of a growing economy provided by the Plan , in which production was sure of finding sales , probably played a significant part in the resumption of growth after 1952 ’ ( Carré et al. , 1976 , p. 471 ) . |
| 17 | They played a significant role in initiating cultural ideas at the centre for subsequent vulgarization and dissemination throughout Russia , at first through ‘ fat ’ specialized journals and then later via the popular press . |
| 18 | In the interstices of the system , particularly in west Africa , the older , established , trading families in cities such as Kano and newcomers to the commercial sector played a significant role . |
| 19 | ‘ The evidence of student organisers and the police is that among the marchers there were 2,000 or more members of militant groups who played a significant role in encouraging demonstrators to march towards Parliament and show aggression , ’ the report says . |
| 20 | Annesley , an authority on rare plants and trees , played a significant role in the development of the garden . |
| 21 | Tourism played a significant role on many farms with caravans/chalets/ renovated cottages all being let during a 5–6 month summer period . |
| 22 | The amateur cricketer still played a significant role in the game . |
| 23 | The maintaining of links with co-religionists played a significant role in the formulation of James 's foreign policy . |
| 24 | Both the great nobility and the armigerous gentry , whose influence was more local , played a significant role in the organisation of military service , the gentry acting as sub-contractors in the work of raising forces . |
| 25 | In short , even a genuinely mulitilateral world system effectively dominated by an oligarchy of the important states , such as was envisaged in the Security Council as originally set up , would not be an international system in which most nations and nation-states played a significant role . |
| 26 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 27 | In the following chapter we shall encounter another : the recovery of an atomic theory of matter , which played a significant role in the mechanization of nature . |
| 28 | This recognises that Pakistan played a significant role in the conflict through its assistance to Afghanistan resistance forces and in receiving Afghan refugees . |
| 29 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 30 | Men such as Huxley and Hooker now played a significant role in the creation of the British scientific establishment by building up a system of government support for research and education . |