Example sentences of "can [vb infin] a important " in BNC.

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1 Successful learning often takes place when young children enjoy themselves in role-playing , which can make an important contribution to their oral and aural experience .
2 What they do maintain is that a vividly told story can make an important contribution to our knowledge of how and why strikes occur .
3 Credit manager can make an important contribution in two key areas — evaluation and post-auditing .
4 Thus maintenance can make an important contribution to containing machine running costs as well as ensuring optimum machine availability .
5 If the opportunity does n't present itself naturally you have to engineer the situation so you can explain an important or emotional message .
6 Maps are concrete representations of what is otherwise abstract ; they can become an important part of the reflective process , making it easier for children to understand the meaning of their work .
7 Meeting these attainable short-term goals and progressively crossing them off the list can provide an important sense of achievement and reinforcement .
8 It is certainly true that whilst such lists can provide an important first step towards making visible the nature of gender bias , it is the consequent further and more detailed thought concerning each question which often results in :
9 Recruitment companies can provide an important service for the catering trade .
10 As the system allows the information to be updated easily , it can provide an important service to those applying for jobs or places in higher education .
11 Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department .
12 At the same time , sociologists of education generally hold to the view that schools can have an important role in both conservation and social change .
13 Figure 2 indicates that cognitions — memories , thoughts , images — can have an important influence on emotional state .
14 Foam nonetheless can have an important part to play in the performance of a detergent .
15 Gilligan 's ( 1982 ) extension of psychological subject matter and theory has shown that these are not the only kinds of feminist psychology which can have an important impact .
16 Where the meter is fitted can have an important effect on your bill .
17 Once this occurs the democratic process can have an important function in failing to legitimize the state , and in providing justification for a rejection by groups of subjects not only of particular governments , but of more general constitutional arrangements .
18 Such factors can have an important effect on the behaviour of the structure under fire conditions .
19 Certain individuals can have an important informal influence in an organisation .
20 In any single year investment in inventories can be negative or positive , and can have an important effect upon national output .
21 Such costs can have an important influence on the overall portfolio rate of return , particularly for financial institutions who tend to trade their portfolios more actively than private investors .
22 The provisos set out in a lease cover a range of miscellaneous matters which can have an important bearing on the lease .
23 Thus the availability of jury trial can have an important effect in securing a liberal operation of apparently draconian press laws .
24 Consequently , we can write An important assumption of the hypothesis is that Y T is not correlated with Y p .
25 Intensified Nato consultations on these issues can play an important role in forming common approaches to these threats .
26 On inland waters and in offshore winds at sea , wind shifts can play an important part of the upwind leg .
27 The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education .
28 Reminiscence can play an important part in ameliorating personal distress , and can be adapted when counselling older people through such matters as retirement , dependence , depression , ill-health , as well as coming to terms with bereavement and death .
29 But some will , and it is at such times that counselling can play an important role .
30 This would indicate that the expectation of impotence in old age can play an important role in actually bringing it about .
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