Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a important [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The material form of the surplus-product has an important bearing upon this .
2 Literature has an important role to play — in a variety of ways — in improving abilities in speaking and listening and in writing , as well as in reading .
3 Income has an important effect upon your life chances : for example the chance of owning your own house and your life expectancy .
4 We have seen that confirmation has an important role to play in science as interpreted by the sophisticated falsificationist .
5 Does my right hon. Friend accept that the Department of Trade and Industry has an important role to play in creating the right climate for manufacturing industry ?
6 But the development of state intervention in the course of the boom had an important effect on reactions to growing economic difficulties .
7 Hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy have an important role in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding , but all young sexually active women should have a cervical swab taken to detect chlamydia in the first instance , irrespective of the sexual history .
8 My Committee has an important job to do .
9 Thus the way in which a particular individual came to the decision to seek help has an important bearing on what happens subsequently .
10 Although it is possible to make some generalizations about the likely sequence of development of an intercontinental collision orogen , the pre-collision history of the active margin of the overriding plate and its subduction zone has an important influence on the subsequent evolution of an orogenic belt .
11 It must also be remembered that the voluntary sector has an important role as critic and that this may be impeded by interweaving .
12 We believe the private sector has an important role to play ( see the section on Environmental Education in our response to the proposed National Sustainability Report ) .
13 Clearly , the precinctual mill had an important role to play .
14 Inference has an important role in comprehension .
15 Climate has an important influence on these outcomes .
16 ‘ What I want to know first of all is does the national team have an important role to play ? ’ he said .
17 Nevertheless , the organ has an important place and this is indicated by its prominent position in most buildings , often behind the central pulpit .
18 As mentioned in Chapter 1 , education has an important part to play in development , in both its contribution to structural change and to changing values .
19 Throughout my many years in the travel industry , I have always believed tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries , as well as being a catalyst for economic development .
20 Such evidence has an important bearing on the site 's function .
21 The Careers Service has an important role to play in brokering the jobs on offer to the schools .
22 The local Careers Service has an important role to play here .
23 It may have been because the school was voluntary-aided that the head also wanted religious education to have an important place , not so much in shaping the school but in underlining the requirement that everyone should at least think about his or her religious belief .
24 One further contextual factor had an important bearing on this analysis .
25 The randomness of the environment has an important influence .
26 Although Napoleon was not much use on this occasion , the full-size skeleton has an important role to play in the future .
27 Imaging has an important place in confirming or excluding pyloric stenosis in difficult cases .
28 Most of the points which Petrey makes in the course of the discussion follow from his two central claims : that Austin 's formulation of speech act theory was a significant breakthrough in the study of language and that speech act theory has an important contribution to make to the study of literature .
29 There is usually a large number of Arab postgraduates in the department ( for the University Library has an important collection of Islamic MSS ) , which helps to keep undergraduates exposed to Arabic in everyday use .
30 If sodium retention has an important role in the development of diabetic renal disease a diuretic drug should reduce blood pressure and protect renal function .
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