Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] play a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
2 | In all skilled occupations other than agriculture and gardening foreigners also played a major role : government agencies were the main employers , but private firms also needed foreign bricklayers , carpenters , electricians , bulldozer drivers , surveyors , accountants . |
3 | Unfortunately , environmental considerations often play a subservient role to economic and political expediency and the concept of long-term sustainability is rarely attributed more than cosmetic attention . |
4 | These life peers now play a major role in the day-to-day work of the Lords ; indeed , their presence is essential for the great majority of hereditary peers rarely , if ever , attend . |
5 | In the Low Country headmen often played a similar role . |
6 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
7 | Pest-free plants also play a large part in garden hygiene , and a sharp eye will spot unwelcome visitors so that the necessary curative measures can be taken . |
8 | In the endeavour to minimize the contributions work environments make to avoidable fatalities , state officials also play a significant part . |
9 | The inundations that came later with the four major ice ages between three million and 10,000 years ago played a dramatic part in the distribution of animals and in the evolution and survival of some of the unique species and subspecies of the Oriental Region . |
10 | Support groups for people with particular needs or conditions also play a vital part in helping some older people and their families to adapt to changes in their lives . |
11 | Their research resources clearly play a vital role , and the firm takes a great interest in the latest technical developments which can facilitate this department 's work . |
12 | In the amount of business that they do , and the number of services they provide , the library suppliers now play a major role — some would say , too large — in the development of library services . |
13 | The strings here play a melodic line including the major 3rd of E7 ( G£ ) , while the bass gets away with a low G natural ( as it is only a sixteenth note long and not in an exposed position ! ) . |
14 | In this , academic qualifications obviously play a large part , but close attention is given also to the applicant 's personality and non-academic interests and attainments based on information supplied by the candidate and by the confidential referee . |
15 | In this , academic qualifications obviously play a large part , but close attention is given also to the applicant 's personality and non-academic interests and attainments based on information supplied by the candidate and by the confidential referee . |
16 | Instead national elites need to be supported by an underpinning structure of regional and local elites , and the policy-makers at these sub-national levels also play a major role in channelling diverse influences from external business and social elites into government ( Domhoff , 1967 , 1976 , 1978a ; Hunter , 1953 ) . |
17 | Family doctors already play a vital role in the Health Service and they will play an even bigger role in future . |
18 | And journeys always played a central role in his imagination . |
19 | Non-verbal behaviours also play a key part . |
20 | These forces also play a key role in the large horizontal movements experienced by the lithosphere which we will be examining in detail later in this chapter . |
21 | On the eve of France 's defeat , he had actually joined a group of this kind , the " Amis de Temps Présent " , some of whose members subsequently played a significant role in the Christian resistance and in the formation of the MRP . |
22 | Ultimately , it is up to individuals to make something of their situation , and their motives and capacities therefore play a central part in explanation — they have , so to speak , the casting vote . |
23 | Portraits also play a major part in Clamey 's work , ‘ I 'm probably very old fashioned but I believe still that the principal aim or a portrait is to achieve a good likeness of your sitter , but you also have to create a picture . ’ |
24 | In cases where there is marked marital conflict and the parents are failing to achieve a satisfactory relationship , the children frequently play a significant part in the problem . |
25 | Needless to say , he showed those special talents again playing a young man in his twenties in our film . |
26 | Isolating stallions from other horses obviously plays a large part in the aggression and even viciousness some stallions display towards mares . |
27 | Nancy Henstead who 's a regional nurse from Oxford Regional Health Authority says ‘ nurses already play a substantial role in the day to day running of hospitals , but until now , they 've gone unrecognised for it ’ . |
28 | It will be appropriate to end this discussion by recognizing the fact that it is fundamentally on account of Christ 's maleness that still today , throughout the greater part of Christendom ( and in countries where women now play a leading part in public life ) , women may still not be ordained . |
29 | We shall see later ( p. 244 ) that the monitoring of trustworthiness in companions probably played a major role in the evolution of self-awareness in higher primates . |