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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the endeavour to minimize the contributions work environments make to avoidable fatalities , state officials also play a significant part . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Family doctors already play a vital role in the Health Service and they will play an even bigger role in future . |
| 15 | Non-verbal behaviours also play a key part . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |