Example sentences of "have be a important [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s there has been an important adjustment in both exchange rates and agricultural pricing policy largely as a result of pressure from international aid agencies . |
| 2 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 3 | And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools . |
| 4 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
| 5 | David Rush ( striker ) : The young striker 's seemingly inexhaustible store of energy has been an important factor in the Cup run . |
| 6 | This has been an important influence in promoting a communicative approach to the teaching of languages . |
| 7 | But , on the whole , the Manchester experiment has been an important breakthrough in the campaign to make the local state more accessible to its lesbian and gay citizens . |
| 8 | And Singh ( 1977 ) , who has been an important protagonist in the debate over deindustrialization , defines it in terms of the economy 's ability to sell enough of its products abroad to pay for the nation 's import requirements , and to do these things while maintaining ‘ socially acceptable levels of output , employment and the exchange rate ’ ( p. 125 ) . |
| 9 | There has been an important development in the hunt for a rapist suspected of attacking more than twenty women in the North-West . |
| 10 | Let me be personal here , for coming to grips with this has been an important milestone in my own life as a Christian . |
| 11 | Exchange will have been an important factor in this general process of consolidation . |
| 12 | Some will also have provided a range of facilities for those officials and private individuals travelling along the highways , which would have been an important element in those small towns which housed a mansio or , to a lesser extent , a mutatio , though there is surprisingly little evidence to demonstrate this . |
| 13 | Although reported as poor in the Domesday Book , Thwing could well have been an important place in medieval times , the prosperity of the village being a direct reflection of the influence and affluence of the Thwing baronial family , who were amongst the most distinguished and prosperous families in northern England . |
| 14 | Atrophic gastritis was found in three of our patients and is therefore unlikely to have been an important factor in our study . |
| 15 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 16 | Also , John often insisted that the treatment of black people in South Africa had been an important factor in his decision . |
| 17 | Mr Guy said the massive response to the Hoover free flights offer had been an important factor in the firm 's decline . |
| 18 | As US officials produced evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and appealed for support from other Latin American countries in their campaign to oust him , their case was weakened by evidence that the US had been an important supporter in the general 's rise to power and that the CIA had known about his trafficking for years . |
| 19 | NASA argued , however , that the flight had been an important step in the development of the proposed Freedom space station . |
| 20 | who have led the field in running schemes of financial devolution , have been an important factor in the decision-making leading up to statutory introduction of Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) . |