1.  Mr Sim was chairman of the North east Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry.

2.  But they also recognize the crucial role played by ideas of different kinds: for Bottoms the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal looms large, for Fitzgerald and Sim there are crises of legitimacy and authority, Woolf stresses prisoners' sense of injustice, while Hall charts the creation of an ideology of law and order.

3.  Both men were from Cabinda and had been expected to play a crucial role during the September election campaign in capturing support among non-Ovimbundu ethnic groups particularly in the north.

4.  Berkeley's seventeenth-century predecessors were as anxious as he was to suggest that the regularity of nature is a manifestation of God's goodness; but in making an independent material world the cause of ideas, they give God a less crucial role than Berkeley does.

5.  This was because the state played a crucial role in segregating immigrants into twilight zones as a result of its making council housing available mainly to the white working class.

6.  Manager Lennie Lawrence said Peake played a crucial role in away wins over Sheffield Wednesday and Port Vale last week.

7.  Iron has a crucial role to play in the efficient working of the human body and is vital to healthy living.

8.  Election "92: Crucial role for the Queen Anthony King explains what happens at Westminster if there is no clear verdict in a General Election

9.  The ambitions of the northern nobility were to play a crucial role in national politics at the end of the century.

10.  Some, e.g. Krieger (1983) and Sunley (1986), stress the crucial role of work organization, and the butty system in particular, whereas others - Waller (1983) and Rees (1985, 1986) - emphasize the power of the colliery companies over their villages, and their monopoly of local labour markets.