Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through his stimulus , the art of pictorial narrative experienced a major revival in twelfth-century England . |
| 2 | 16.14 In chapter 7 we say that literature plays an important role in improving abilities in speaking and listening , and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 3 | For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies . |
| 4 | Because the scale is logarithmic , each whole number increment represents a tenfold change in acidity ; thus , solutions of pH 6 , 5 and 4 contain 1 , 10 and 100 microequivalents of acidity ( Hsup+ ; ) per litre respectively ( abbreviated u eq/l ) as illustrated in figure 4.2 . |
| 5 | What can be done to give even a tenth of our people the opportunity to acquire a small stake in the land , and to replace the missing bottom rungs in the farming ladder ? |
| 6 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 7 | The platelet plays an important role in interacting with the coagulation system and certain intrinsic coagulation reactions occur preferentially on the platelet surface which appears to protect coagulation enzymes from inactivation by plasma proteinases and localises fibrin formation within and around the platelet plug ( Walsh , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Once again Things Past and Present made a colourful display in the Davidson Room . |
| 9 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont 's election Budget got a stony reception in the City last night . |
| 10 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 11 | ‘ But it could also seriously affect the health of schoolchildren as numerous studies have shown that milk plays a vital part in their nutritional intake . |
| 12 | ‘ The local park plays a big part in the lives of many families in this town , ’ said Midlesbrough Council 's leisure services chairman Bob Kerr . |
| 13 | One recommendation has already been implemented : the agreement by the BMJ and the Lancet to include a separate heading in the classified advertisement for part time posts . |
| 14 | The management changes introduced at Eurotunnel and Transmanche Link produced a rapid improvement in tunnelling performance and by the late Spring of 1989 the project was back on target . |
| 15 | Before I leave , I stop by Contracts to sprinkle a little salt in the wounds of deskbound Nick Thumb by describing ( almost ) all the fun of the Fair . |
| 16 | Faith plays a full part in the process of prayer . |
| 17 | Faith plays an enormous part in healing . |
| 18 | If microvascular occlusion plays a primary role in the pathogenesis of the disease , reduced blood flow would be expected in association with these subclinical manifestations of recurrence . |
| 19 | Consumer protection represents an important plank in the evolving structure of Community law and several Directives have been issued in this field , including Directives relating to consumer credit and doorstep transactions . |
| 20 | At the end of March , Than Tun made a defiant speech in Rangoon 's Bandoola Square and then vanished , setting up an underground resistance based on Toungoo . |
| 21 | Rather than supporting the status quo , the way things are , utopian ideologies advocate a complete change in the structure of society . |
| 22 | His brother William made a good deputy in most respects and could deal with much of the day-to-day management of the properties ; but he was very much a stay-at-home character , immersed in his books and studies , and the more distant affairs tended to get neglected . |
| 23 | Dealing between GEMMs plays an important part in the maintenance of an efficient and liquid market . |
| 24 | As more and more land was planted with cash crops , the lack of pasture became a serious problem in many districts . |
| 25 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 26 | In 1638 he was admitted to Lincoln 's Inn , a late admission suggesting a serious interest in the law . |
| 27 | Subjective ( human ) judgement plays an important role in executive decision making . |
| 28 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 29 | So the election produced an enormous increase in at least minimal awareness of local candidates . |
| 30 | This change in attitudes plays a crucial part in the development of a drawbridge mentality , which is replacing the more collective outlook of previous decades . |