Example sentences of "[vb -s] a central role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the very fact that poetry has a central role in Soviet life means that much of it is conservative in form and predictable in content . |
| 2 | It is clear that SCOTVEC has a central role in helping to meet these needs . |
| 3 | He believes that the home has a central role in people 's consciousness , and specifically in their sense of ‘ ontological security ’ . |
| 4 | In agreement with several other complementary therapies , they consider that the spine plays a central role in the link between mental and bodily states . |
| 5 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 6 | As described earlier , InsP 3 plays a central role in driving this oscillatory activity and the wave-like spread of each spike may facilitate the transfer of a calcium signal to the nucleus . |
| 7 | Catastrophic thinking , both in the misinterpretation of bodily symptoms and the anticipation of disaster , plays a central role in the development and exacerbation of anxiety symptoms . |
| 8 | Another example is the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers ( which was set up informally , but as a result of prompting from central government , by major City financial institutions ) ; it plays a central role in the regulation of company mergers and takeovers . |
| 9 | As we noted earlier , explanation plays a central role in education . |
| 10 | Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people 's daily life . |
| 11 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Improvisation and expression as well as musical accompaniment of the exercises plays a central role in the training programme of the Medau-Schule . |
| 13 | Secondly data structures are already beginning to come apart from use structures and GIS plays a central role in this . |
| 14 | There is no doubt in de Man 's mind that the image plays a central role in Proust 's thematic opposition , but when one follows " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , the function of the image is subverted : " statements or strategies that tended to remain unnoticed become apparent and undo what the figure seemed to have accomplished " . |
| 15 | All this evidence indicates a central role for InsP 3 in certain forms of sensory perception . |
| 16 | Clearly , the class reader so defined , claims a central role in much English teaching since it frequently provides a nucleus of activity through which the needs of pupils — both girls and boys — are addressed . |
| 17 | Thus social policy must be critically evaluated not only for its failure to eradicate poverty among older women ( and , to a lesser extent , men ) , but also because it occupies a central role in producing and legitimating both the poverty of a substantial proportion of older people and the marked inequalities between older women and men . |
| 18 | Indonesia occupies a central role in this market , supplying approximately 50 per cent of Pacific LNG needs . |
| 19 | Although all this evidence suggests a central role for the IP 3 R , at least in certain cells , there is controversy concerning the way in which it contributes to the initiation and propagation of calcium waves . |