Example sentences of "[noun] plays a major [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Any visitor to Ireland does n't have to travel very far before realising that this is a land where religion plays a major role in the life of every city , town and village .
2 The purpose of information is to enable people to make better decisions and accounting plays a major role in the vital area of decisions about finance and investment .
3 A levy of some sort is essential , so that the industry plays a major part in all training .
4 As the largest provider of visit attractions in Scotland , Historic Scotland plays a major role in the Scottish tourism industry .
5 Taken against the background of considerable other evidence about the genetics of psychosis ( especially schizophrenia ) we can therefore certainly conclude that inheritance plays a major role in determining susceptibility .
6 The Modular Course Co-ordinator plays a major counselling role in relation to prospective applicants .
7 Carnitine plays a major part in cellular energy production .
8 Performing the official opening of the town 's new £20,000 tourist-information centre , Mr Lewis said : ‘ Tourism plays a major role in the local economy of Pwllheli and Llyn , and an estimated £25m to £30m is generated every year from visitor-spending in the town alone .
9 Guilt plays a major part in the who's-that-at-the-door game .
10 Perhaps later feedback will show whether members are able to operate the ‘ less stress desk system ’ advocated , where the waste bin plays a major role .
11 This harmonic minor scale plays a major role within western music , and there are a number of useful things which are derived from it .
12 Entertainment in Japan plays a major role in establishing personal and business relationships .
13 For this reason , accurate diagnosis of underlying causes on the basis of visible symptoms plays a major part in the treatment of physical illnesses and will often enable doctors to provide accurate predictions about the future course of the illness .
14 There is something very special about climbing hills where the sea plays a major part in the surrounding scenery .
15 At the other end of the spectrum are approaches in which an organisational and behavioural perspective is paramount , and in which a consultant facilitator plays a major role .
16 Because the effective osmotic pressure exerted by ethanol is far less than its measured osmotic pressure , however , it is unlikely that high osmolarity plays a major part in the production of acid inhibition by ethanol .
17 It appears to be unlikely that reduced hydration in the minor groove plays a major role in destabilising the duplexes used in this study , although removal of bound water may be more significant in sequences containing more contiguous A-T base pairs .
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