Example sentences of "plays a [adj] role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If microvascular occlusion plays a primary role in the pathogenesis of the disease , reduced blood flow would be expected in association with these subclinical manifestations of recurrence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In other words , the distance that a subject is placed away from the host or hostess , plays a major role in behaviour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ( WRVS ) plays a major role in organising and delivering these meals to the homes of elderly people . |
| 9 | As the largest provider of visit attractions in Scotland , Historic Scotland plays a major role in the Scottish tourism industry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Entertainment in Japan plays a major role in establishing personal and business relationships . |
| 17 | This harmonic minor scale plays a major role within western music , and there are a number of useful things which are derived from it . |
| 18 | It does so by examining the process of assessment in which the ASW plays a critical role between the initial referral from the GP and the decision whether or not to section the woman . |
| 19 | The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity . |
| 20 | This importance of the stochastic specification plays a critical role in cross-section models in particular wherever the data under study suffer from censoring , truncation or grouping . |
| 21 | Gamma-interferon plays a critical role in protective immune responses because of its ability to stimulate the effector functions of several non-specific cells such as macrophages and natural killer cells , and to enhance the expression of class II major histocompatibility complex antigens on antigen presenting cells and other tissue cells . |
| 22 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 23 | Finally , technical inputs of equipment and components , as well as the maintenance of markets , will depend upon insertion into a diversified manufacturing sector in which public policy plays a coherent role in establishing and maintaining linkages . |
| 24 | The former Tory MP who this week made his maiden speech in the House of Lords , plays a conciliatory role within the Conservative Party as a close friend of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major . |
| 25 | While short spacing plays a causal role in child mortality , it also ensues from a child death , as when breastfeeding and abstinence — the traditional spacing mechanisms — are abruptly halted owing to the death of a nursing infant , and conception occurs . |
| 26 | Physical gratification often plays a contributing role in the exercise of persuasion : what does the marketing manager expect in return for the expensive lunch she 's buying you ? |
| 27 | The concept of ‘ false consciousness ’ plays a similar role in Lukács 's writing to that which ‘ ideology ’ plays in Marx 's . |
| 28 | At this point Freud is closer to Max Weber 's theory , where the charismatic figure plays a similar role in creating change . |
| 29 | In agreement with several other complementary therapies , they consider that the spine plays a central role in the link between mental and bodily states . |
| 30 | 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 . |