Example sentences of "[pers pn] play a major [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit .
2 There is no doubt that they played a major part in maintaining interest in abolition and emancipation through different phases of antislavery .
3 Possibly , according to some scientists , they play a major role in destroying life ( see Chapter 6 ) .
4 Settlements can best be examined by considering personal injury claims , in which they play a major role , and which have been the subject of research and critical assessment .
5 Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level .
6 In this capacity he played a major part in instituting the kidney transplant unit at St James 's ; and when he established the liver transplant unit there , it was only the third such centre in the country .
7 And McAllister added : ‘ He played a major part in Stuttgart , where he made three or four great saves .
8 He played a major part in the administration of the national Antarctic expedition of 1901–4 led by R. F. Scott [ q.v. ] , and Mount Kempe in South Victoria Land was named in recognition of this .
9 Coleman claimed that his greatest contribution to the young veterinary profession was that he played a major role in securing that from 1796 appointments as veterinary surgeons ( a term used by the Standing Board of General Officers ) in the cavalry , and eventually ( 1805 ) in the artillery , were by commission rather than by warrant .
10 He played a major role in the organization of the royal expedition to Boulogne of that year , and was knighted at the end of the campaign .
11 Following World War I , he played a major role in the gramophone industry as chairman of the Edison Phonograph Company and the Columbia Graphaphone Company .
12 He played a major role in the talks between the government and Solidarity leaders which in April 1989 paved the way for the dismantling of the communist regime .
13 Historically it played a major part against the Saracens , and the old buildings in Rhodes town and the Acropolis in Lindos still remain .
14 Not only was the BDDA among them , but it played a major part in the revival of the NID .
15 Lérins itself was important in two ways ; first it played a major part in the promotion of monastic ideals in Gaul , and second it trained a succession of bishops who made a substantial impact on the Gallo-Roman , and later Frankish , Church .
16 It played a major role in the production of the first tactical nuclear weapons ; and , in consequence , moved sharply away from basic investigations towards engineering development .
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