Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] plays a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Involvement in hooligan activity plays a significant part in their lives — by providing its own mechanism of recognition and reward . |
| 2 | The Modular Course Co-ordinator plays a major counselling role in relation to prospective applicants . |
| 3 | The processes underlying habituation training will presumably go on during distinctiveness training and thus , if we accept the interpretation of habituation discussed in Chapter 2 , we must also accept the possibility that stimulus differentiation plays a part in acquired distinctiveness . |
| 4 | Cotton wool plays a secondary part , on the whole , in cosmetics . |
| 5 | If the entrepreneurial heroes hold center stage in this drama , the rest of the vast work force plays a supporting role — supporting and unheralded . |
| 6 | Another , on their economic importance , shows how male fern has been used as a cure for worms or as a love philtre , how clubmosses provide homoeopathic treatments for everything from hiccups to pre-menstrual tension , and how the mosquito fern plays a vital role in rice production . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The issue of emigration of professionals and management executives was examined by a government working group in 1967 and its report concluded as follows : ‘ It is popularly believed that income tax plays a dominant part in the decision to emigrate from Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In business paper plays a crucial role in the provision and distribution of strategic management or executive information ( Campbell-Kelly 1993 ; Cashmore 1991 ) . |
| 11 | In view of these discrepant results it seems unlikely that coexisting HBV infection plays a significant role in the aetiopathogenesis of alcohol related liver damage , at least in areas of low HBV prevalence such as Britain . |
| 12 | The body clock plays a role in the complex changes that occur at puberty . |
| 13 | Finally , the rural team in the Resource Development Department plays a vital role in ensuring all N C V O's work takes on board the rural dimension . |
| 14 | De Niro , in his funniest performance since Rupert King Of Comedy Pupkin plays a small-time New York lawyer keen to be someone , to make his mark by taking on the local crime boss/boxing promoter as well as tangling with the local barman 's wife played by Cape Fear co star Jessica Lange . |
| 15 | And based on his own experience , Rod Smart thinks that parent-teacher cooperation plays a vital part in solving behaviour problems . |
| 16 | Our data do not support the idea that the xanthine/ xanthine oxidase pathway plays a part in ulcerative colitis as allopurinol , in concentrations known to inhibit xanthine oxidase activity , did not affect chemiluminescence . |
| 17 | Accumulating evidence supports the concent that Helicobacter pylori infection plays a causative role in gastric inflammation in children . |
| 18 | The area office plays a prominent part in what a field officer is able to learn of the job . |
| 19 | The approach used is an interactive one where the decision maker plays a positive part in the solution process itself . |
| 20 | One reason might be that it is a case of ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , because despite the fact that the chestnut-shaped prostate gland plays a vital secretory role in ejaculation , it is a very hidden organ , surrounding the upper part of the urethra and tucked away under the bladder and behind the rectum . |
| 21 | In discussing the effect produced when event X precedes the CS-US pairing of a conditioning trial , Revusky lays emphasis on the interference that results from the formation of an X-US association ; but it might also be allowed that the formation on an X-CS association plays a role . |
| 22 | Why will not the Minister introduce nutritional guidelines for school meals to ensure that the school meals service plays a vital role in child nutrition , as recommended in the Black report a decade ago ? |
| 23 | And yet the popular music Press plays a key role in shaping new styles and sounds . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the law can not but recognise that police investigation plays a crucial role in the criminal process and it therefore seeks to regulate it . |
| 25 | When a million health care workers are arguing that social , economic , and lifestyle factors underpin health and that health care plays a lesser , though important part their arguments may influence politicians and the public . |
| 26 | It has been acknowledged that the current housing situation plays a vital role in the recession . |
| 27 | In America , with its vast distances , plane travel plays a much larger part in people 's lives than in Britain , and this may even be a contributory cause of the greater general literacy that is found in America today . |
| 28 | While over a third of the world 's financial institutions still treat information technology as an after-thought in their business planning , information technology plays a key role in the increasingly important global networking arena . |
| 29 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | The broad aims of the team have been strongly influenced by statements of service principles devised by a Regional consortium of local authorities , in which the team 's social services manager plays a prominent role . |