Example sentences of "a significant role " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , franchising has always played a significant role , although relations between franchisor and franchisee have not always been smooth , according to the report . |
| 2 | They played a significant role in initiating cultural ideas at the centre for subsequent vulgarization and dissemination throughout Russia , at first through ‘ fat ’ specialized journals and then later via the popular press . |
| 3 | In the interstices of the system , particularly in west Africa , the older , established , trading families in cities such as Kano and newcomers to the commercial sector played a significant role . |
| 4 | ‘ The evidence of student organisers and the police is that among the marchers there were 2,000 or more members of militant groups who played a significant role in encouraging demonstrators to march towards Parliament and show aggression , ’ the report says . |
| 5 | Annesley , an authority on rare plants and trees , played a significant role in the development of the garden . |
| 6 | Tourism played a significant role on many farms with caravans/chalets/ renovated cottages all being let during a 5–6 month summer period . |
| 7 | They ascribe a significant role in this respect to mental health specialists , particularly ASWs . |
| 8 | It also indicates that specialists , particularly ASWs , play a significant role in preventing unnecessary sections , hence guarding women 's civil rights . |
| 9 | The office is a tangible recognition at many levels in this community of a determination to ensure that the Province plays a significant role in the Europe of the Nineties , of the Single Market and economic integration . |
| 10 | Although some remarkably conservation-conscious agents exist , it is generally true to say that land-agents have played , and continue to play , a significant role in hastening the destruction of the English landscape by intensive agriculture . |
| 11 | But , assuming that the formal external information resource does have a significant role to play in helping corporations to achieve viable strategies , the overwhelming message for information providers is that much more effort needs to be put into making that resource — whether in traditional print or in online form — more comprehensible in its overall structure , and easier to access and use in its individual parts , by the non-specialist user . |
| 12 | Analysis of competitors and competitive markets is of the utmost importance to each company , and in all six the planning departments have a significant role to play in this analysis . |
| 13 | I feel strongly that if the library and information profession is to play a significant role in the handling of information within business ( and other ) organisations , we really must stop pussy-footing around with weak half-baked notions ! |
| 14 | As Barker and McGregor point out , however , land-use practices have also played a significant role in landscape change since colonial times when deforestation began . |
| 15 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 16 | Finally , biotechnology has played a significant role in improving productivity via traditional plant and animal breeding programmes and in controlling environmental quality via waste-water treatment , and it is now beginning to feature prominently in mineral extraction . |
| 17 | Noise and danger resulting from too many vehicles has played a significant role in making inner cities unpleasant places to be . |
| 18 | The amateur cricketer still played a significant role in the game . |
| 19 | These particular fatty acids can play a significant role in preventing heart disease and clogged up arteries . |
| 20 | It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water . |
| 21 | In many cases other people play a significant role in the acquisition of those problems — although not always deliberately . |
| 22 | Now came the opportunity for Sylvia to play a significant role in her own treatment — something which I consider vital if the cure is to be permanent . |
| 23 | Unlike the US , Japan or Germany , it can not affect the outcome of events in the former Soviet Union , since it does not have the economic resources to play a significant role . |
| 24 | While simple imitation fails to explain the occurrence of such novel utterances , a number of researchers have presented evidence indicating that imitation may nevertheless play a significant role in the child 's mastery of vocabulary , syntax and pragmatic functions ( Bloom et al . |
| 25 | Concepts , therefore , do have a significant role in the management of force . |
| 26 | Jacques Fouroux maintained a sane approach when he wrote after the Paris quarter-final : ‘ It 's true that since the beginning of the World Cup the refereeing has played a significant role in the outcome of the game , but it would be chauvinistic to say the same about the way Mr. Bishop has refereed . |
| 27 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 28 | Do hearing people have a significant role in raising the level of deaf people 's lives to help them fit into society better ? |
| 29 | The maintaining of links with co-religionists played a significant role in the formulation of James 's foreign policy . |
| 30 | And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools . |