Example sentences of "[noun pl] plays [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth .
2 Dealing between GEMMs plays an important part in the maintenance of an efficient and liquid market .
3 This change in attitudes plays a crucial part in the development of a drawbridge mentality , which is replacing the more collective outlook of previous decades .
4 The formulation and implementation of pilot , demonstration and otherwise innovative projects plays a crucial role in unlocking and mobilising the full potential of Glasgow 's assets .
5 Secondly data structures are already beginning to come apart from use structures and GIS plays a central role in this .
6 Furthermore , sometimes the government expressly delegates public administrative functions to non-governmental bodies : for example , under the Financial Services Act 1986 the Securities and Investments Board exercises a wide range of regulatory functions delegated to it by the Secretary of State ; the Board of Deputies of British Jews plays an important role in policing certain Sunday Trading laws ; the Wood Green Animal Shelter in North London runs the government 's computerized register of fighting dogs ; and the Rowntree Trust ( a private charitable organization ) administers the Family Fund ( a public fund to assist families of severely handicapped children ) .
7 It has been recently shown that leukocyte accumulation within the mucosal blood vessels plays an important role in the pathogenesis of indomethacin induced gastropathy .
8 Breaking up large firms plays no significant part in UK competition policy although in the US the telecommunications company AT & T was split up into regional competitors .
9 In societies where the organization of social and economic life is based much more closely on kinship than it is for most people in contemporary Britain , women 's involvement in exchanging goods and services with female relatives plays an important role in maintaining the solidarity of the kin group .
10 The results of this study show that : ( 1 ) excessive faecal bile acid losses in cystic fibrosis occurs almost exclusively in patients without liver disease of whom almost 50% have reduced retention of SeHCAT consistent with the presence of a terminal ileal bile acid active transport defect ; ( 2 ) faecal bile acid loss is unrelated to the presence of intraluminal fat ; and ( 3 ) bacterial overgrowth in these patients plays a minor part in excessive faecal bile acid excretion .
11 Improvisation and expression as well as musical accompaniment of the exercises plays a central role in the training programme of the Medau-Schule .
12 For this reason , accurate diagnosis of underlying causes on the basis of visible symptoms plays a major part in the treatment of physical illnesses and will often enable doctors to provide accurate predictions about the future course of the illness .
13 In experimental models of gastric damage , there is evidence that the ability of the gastric mucosa to synthesise prostaglandins plays an important part in mediating adaptive cytoprotection .
14 At present , though , there is little evidence that either of these pathways plays a significant role in LTP .
15 We shall see in what follows that the distinction between anticipated and unanticipated changes in policy instruments plays an essential role in the application of the rational expectations hypothesis to the study of macroeconomic phenomena .
16 To summarise , the observations reported in this study and in that of Brunsson clearly indicate that ENS plays an important role in the fluid secretion seen in intestinal inflammation .
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