Example sentences of "have assumed great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last two decades , a new approach to this subject has assumed great influence . |
| 2 | However , it has assumed great importance in the case law of the European Court in recent years for an additional reason , namely a struggle for power between the different European institutions both inter se and in relation to the Member States . |
| 3 | Small isolated communities would have been extremely vulnerable if crops failed and , in such circumstances , alliances with neighbouring groups would have assumed great importance when food was required in emergencies . |
| 4 | In the early years of the republic these were factors of no great consequence , but they have assumed great importance since the movement of the United States on to the world stage in the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Moreover , passive margins have assumed great economic significance since the 1960s as their hydrocarbon potential has begun to be extensively exploited by the oil industry . |