Example sentences of "[vb -s] a pivotal role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market in that it acts as the main banker to both the central government and the clearing banks . |
| 2 | Britain must ensure that the Community plays a pivotal role in the construction of a new security order in Europe , following the democratisation of Eastern and Central Europe . |
| 3 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 4 | ‘ As the clearest expression and most powerful instrument of European integration , the EC plays a pivotal role in this . ’ |
| 5 | In recent years , it has become clear that phosphorylation plays a pivotal role in modulating the activity of sequence-specific transcription factors ( 1 , 2 ) . |