Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It plays a key role in keeping city streets on the move and is even the object of the best modern designers ' desire .
2 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 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 .
5 Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement .
6 More recently , people have stated to reinvestigate the role of the stomach in hunger and have found that , when the stomach is intact , feedback from it plays a vital part in controlling food intake ( McHugh and Moran 1985 ; Rolls and Rolls 1982 ; Smith and Gibbs 1979 ) .
7 Nuclear power is frequently misunderstood but the truth is it plays a vital part in our everyday life .
8 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development .
9 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development .
10 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development .
11 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development .
12 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development .
13 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the countryside and the amenities of the towns and villages of Wales .
14 Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development .
15 The hunt says it plays a vital role in the county 's conservation , and warns that if foxhunting is banned , foxes could become extinct.Chris Moore reports .
16 The hunt says it plays a vital role in the county 's conservation , and warns that if foxhunting is banned , foxes could become extinct.Chris Moore reports .
17 Dearlove 's analysis of local government reorganization in the early 1970s , The Reorganization of Local Government ( Cambridge , Cambridge University Press ; 1979 ) is particularly important because it encourages a political analysis of change and develops an impressive critique of more traditional or orthodox approaches .
18 Unfortunately the more we talk about it encourages a certain kind of person to continue with it . ’
19 Not for its own sake , naturally , but because apart from any useful function that may be fulfilled , it encourages a proper disregard of Self .
20 And it has the secondary virtue that it destroys a prevalent type of sceptical move , and does so in a way that explains the attraction of that move .
21 Moreover , it denotes a certain lack of confidence in the criminal process to believe that a totally false allegation would not sooner or later be revealed as such .
22 From the end of the road at Bracorina , a track continues along the lochside to South Tarbet Bay where it crosses a narrow isthmus to Tarbet on Loch Nevis .
23 If , on the other hand , it records a genuine act by Cnut , Lyfing 's complaint about the uselessness of existing charters may well be an allusion to the activities of those same officials .
24 Achmore is entered and from it goes a narrow road to Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh on a journey of sustained delight .
25 This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory .
26 Because of the perceived importance of the Munn approach and because it represents a parallel exercise at defining a national framework , we turn to a more detailed examination of it next .
27 Its significance is symbolic ; it represents a tangible token of the consensual nature governing the pupil 's attendance and in so doing attempts to counter the punitive and coercive meaning which accompanies referral .
28 At its worst , it represents a total breakdown of the US budget process .
29 But it is also an inflated price since it represents a healthy premium for control of the last really big established national player in the US cellular market .
30 It represents a halfway position between jobbing production and mass production , and is mostly to be found in the light engineering industry .
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