Example sentences of "[vb -s] a major role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adequate supply of vitamin A , either through supplementation or adequate diet , has a major role in preventing morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries . |
| 2 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 3 | The Bank has a major role in the foreign exchange market as it is responsible for carrying out government policy with regard to the exchange rate . |
| 4 | Of particular concern to most of the members of the FFA was the effect of the drift-netters on the albacore tuna resource , which plays a major role in many Pacific economies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In other words , the distance that a subject is placed away from the host or hostess , plays a major role in behaviour . |
| 7 | Professor Martin Mott believes that support for a child suffering from cancer , and his or her family , plays a major role in overcoming the disease . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |
| 10 | The Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ( WRVS ) plays a major role in organising and delivering these meals to the homes of elderly people . |
| 11 | As the largest provider of visit attractions in Scotland , Historic Scotland plays a major role in the Scottish tourism industry . |
| 12 | That shows that , despite what we are told by Conservatives , the social charter is not solely about salaries and general working conditions on the shop floor but also plays a major role in the environment . |
| 13 | It provides technical advice and computing facilities , printed and photocopied research material , a specialised library , a seminar programme which attracts attendance from outside Cambridge as well as within , and plays a major role in sustaining the publication of Local Population Studies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Tissue type plasminogen activator is a key enzyme in thromboysis , while urokinase type plasminogen activator ( u-PA ) plays a major role in extracellular matrix breakdown related activities like tissue remodelling and tumour invasion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 18 | Entertainment in Japan plays a major role in establishing personal and business relationships . |
| 19 | This harmonic minor scale plays a major role within western music , and there are a number of useful things which are derived from it . |
| 20 | Regarding the Hadley cell and monsoon conjectures , current research on Milankovitch forcing indicates a major role of feedbacks on the fast-response atmospheric variables ( wind , temperature , moisture , snow and sea ice , clouds ) from slowly-responding variables ( ice volume , ocean currents , CO 2 ) . |
| 21 | The combination of a higher activity of calcium in bile and precipitation of bile salts taking place at a lower pH in patients with gall stone disease than in patients without gall stones suggests a major role for calcium and pH in the pathogenesis of gall stones . |