Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Faith plays a full part in the process of prayer . |
| 9 | Faith plays an enormous part in healing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dealing between GEMMs plays an important part in the maintenance of an efficient and liquid market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Subjective ( human ) judgement plays an important role in executive decision making . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Calcium plays an important role in the recovery of the rod outer segment to its dark state by regulating the resynthesis of cGMP by guanylate cyclase . |
| 17 | Luck plays a great part in success and as mine would have it , I was chosen for the pre-Christmas show . |
| 18 | ‘ Luck plays a big part in a manager 's fortunes . |
| 19 | We can not smell their pheromones , though it is clear from their behaviour that smell plays a great part in social life : in mother-foal bonding , group identity , individual recognition , mating , tracking , perhaps recognition of home range , and so on . |
| 20 | The formulation and implementation of pilot , demonstration and otherwise innovative projects plays a crucial role in unlocking and mobilising the full potential of Glasgow 's assets . |
| 21 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | The first correspondent holds a distinguished position in the highest ranks of the nursing profession ; the second is the author of books on social work with children . |
| 23 | To this day the building has a remarkable power in a modern city of concrete skyscrapers and oppressive traffic . |
| 24 | The Genesis flood story has a recognizable background in Mesopotamia , and the numerous similarities suggest it is a record of the same event as the Babylonian . |
| 25 | Goulding has a wild streak in him which has got him sent off twice and sin-binned four times . |
| 26 | The Prince has an interesting confusion in his character . |
| 27 | Mosca , like Pareto , is concerned to demolish democratic illusions about the altruism of the elite , but he recognises a positive dynamic relationship between rulers and ruled , and implies that the elite has an ideological function in that it expresses in a coherent rationalising way the moral unity of society through the rule of law . |
| 28 | Each of the novels in the group initiated by Sea Change has a particular theme in the service of which the characters are drawn . |
| 29 | Division has an associate company in the US , Division Inc , and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd acts as its distributor in the Far East . |
| 30 | Fulham has a good atmosphere in the evening , and I think a bookshop is the perfect place for people to meet , ’ says Harriet Currie . |