Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] a important " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the sanctions against non-members have played an important part in sustaining trade unions through difficult conflicts with employers : ‘ scab ’ labourers and strike-breakers have a hard time . |
| 2 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 3 | Here the influences of the professionals , psychologists , psychiatrists , psycho-analysts and paediatricians have played an important part in convincing us ( as every mother knows ) that the quality of physical care has a profound effect on the social and emotional development of children . |
| 4 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 5 | Ever since the Sumerians , the Assyrians and the Persians began trading with other early civilisations thousands of years ago , Oman 's natural harbours have played an important role in world history . |
| 6 | The disposal of trade , effluents has become an important factor in running factories in many industries all over the world , and attention has to be given to methods of dealing with waste waters in order to select the most economical methods , both in running costs and in capital expenditure . |
| 7 | I feel that you , Lynda Warren and the consortium of supporting organisations have made an important contribution to the debate on coastal and marine conservation and planning . |
| 8 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 9 | In Wiltshire trading standards officers have made an important breakthrough in cracking the crime . |
| 10 | However , unelected , time limited , hierarchical agencies have played an important role in central government initiatives to solve social problems . |
| 11 | Ever since I 'd been a youngster , watching and playing football , Hibs have held an important place in the game . |
| 12 | However , White , in this issue , argues that private actions have played an important role in the development of more effective antitrust in the US , and that the recent decline in the number of cases has allayed the fears , expressed in the 1980s , of excessive litigation . |
| 13 | As we have seen , representation other than by lawyers has become an important form of representation before tribunals . |
| 14 | Security over personal property is another area where law and lawyers have had an important facilitative role . |
| 15 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 16 | Global issues have played an important role . |
| 17 | As the Minister knows , regional development grants have played an important part in helping to replace some of the jobs lost in mining and steel in south Wales . |
| 18 | But although socialist or liberal-reformist doctrines have had an important influence in some cases — in the Cuban Revolution , in the Popular Unity Government in Chile , and in the Peronist movement in Argentina — it is a conservative nationalism , expressed through military regimes , which has largely prevailed . |
| 19 | Acquisitions have formed an important part of the strategy and will continue to do so . |
| 20 | In recent years a number of theatre-in-education groups have made an important contribution to the teaching of history ( see Box 20 ) . |
| 21 | The recent launch of National Vocational Qualifications for site managers and supervisors has provided an important new measure of competence at the actual work-face . |
| 22 | Although formerly the Christian Democrats had found an important support base within the church , this was gradually withdrawn . |
| 23 | Even in mammalian evolution , transposons and retroviruses have played an important role ; Maxine Singer ( Carnegie Institution ) presented evidence that one of the 4,000 LINE-1 retrotransposons in the human genome still encodes an active reverse transcriptase . |