Example sentences of "which play a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most have their own band which plays a wide selection of music for dancing . |
| 2 | Code-named Ro31–8959 , it targets an enzyme in the Aids virus called proteinase , which plays a crucial role in the construction of the Aids virus in an infected cell by cutting up proteins into viral components . |
| 3 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Given our expertise in body language , which plays a large part in such intuitive forebodings , we ignore these warnings at our peril . |
| 6 | It is this style of thinking which plays a large part in producing symptoms of stress . |
| 7 | But the community did have a couple of heroes in the military sense when the Second World War came , both members of a family which plays a leading role in the modern legends of Baldersdale — the Fawcetts of West Birk Hatt |
| 8 | Never has he been so at home as in Italy , land of food , wine , his beloved opera … and romance — which plays a leading role this time around . |
| 9 | Cecil Menary had married into the large McAuley family which played a major part in the life of the Cabra congregation and in evangelical culture generally in the North Antrim area . |
| 10 | Working class women 's groups and the Workers ' Birth Control Group , formed in 1924 , which played a major part in the struggle for access to birth control information , also found it impossible to ignore the maternalist framework in their campaign . |
| 11 | In Canada , the aims of the women 's pressure groups which played a major role in bringing about reforming legislation , have been described as follows : |
| 12 | The Bulgarian Green Party , which played a major role in the movement leading to the overthrow of communism , has changed its name to the Conservative Environmental Party . |
| 13 | It 's an emotive issue and raises questions like whether it 's appropriate that a company such as Daimler-Benz which played a major role in the Third Reich , should be allowed as they want to , to build their headquarters near Hitler 's bunker . |
| 14 | Where both are university teachers , Federman began his career as a critic with a study of Samuel Beckett , Journey to Chaos ( 1965 ) , which played a crucial role in the formation of his attitude towards modern fiction . |
| 15 | Traditional oral forms of communication , which played a central role in the maintenance of social and political order — ensuring continuity and reinforcing values and norms of behaviour — was gradually confronted by a quite different form based on the new technology of print and , generally , on a foreign language . |
| 16 | Charter 77 , the human rights organization which played a prominent role as a focus for anti-communist dissent in the 1980s , decided to disband itself on Nov. 3 since it had " completed its historical role " . |
| 17 | Racial nationalism , which played a minor role in British fascism in the inter-war period , was to become much more significant in the revival of the tradition after the Second World War . |
| 18 | The commission , chaired by Ahmed Humihia of Algeria , which played a mediatory role in the peace negotiations , condemned the recent rebel attacks . |
| 19 | Br. 191 , 27 , 1095 ) the only mention of protection against poison gas — which played a vital role in World War I — is a photograph of troops wearing a primitive cloth helmet which rapidly became redundant . |
| 20 | An RAF base has said farewell to a plane which played a vital role during the Gulf War . |
| 21 | In the following chapter we shall encounter another : the recovery of an atomic theory of matter , which played a significant role in the mechanization of nature . |
| 22 | Pocklington beck , which played a large part in the 13th and 14th centuries , though no longer used for the running of mills or for carrot washing , is a favourite place for youngsters who paddle in it or catch tiddlers . |
| 23 | It was necessary to be both ‘ bold and prudent ’ , a phrase which played a large role in the student movement that winter . |
| 24 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 25 | For , because they cause alterations in development , they offer the possibility of identifying genes which play a normal role in development . |
| 26 | ‘ The intellectual and rational conception of life has given way to a more creative interpretation ’ , wrote the British Surrealist Eileen Agar in 1931 , ‘ and artistic life is under the sway of womb-magic ’ ; and Agar give expression to this ‘ womb-magic ’ in the foetal and embryonic forms which play a central part in paintings such as ‘ Family Trio ’ or ‘ The Autobiography of an Embryo ’ where fluid shapes float across the picture plane to be captured in a net of geometric planes . |
| 27 | Transnationalism makes the point that there are actors other than states which play a central role in international events , the obvious examples being multinational corporations and revolutionary groups . |
| 28 | Bats may even use the sensations that we call colour for their own purposes , to represent differences in the world out there that have nothing to do with the physics of wavelength , but which play a functional role , for the bat , similar to the role that colours play to us . |
| 29 | Of course this all depends on your opinions or your taste , factors which play a large part in religious observance . |
| 30 | He had looked beyond the barriers which play a large part in the landscape of the area , fences and ‘ keep out ’ signs often barring the public from discovery . |