Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | But the rector says it plays a vital role . |
18 | By using the time to improve the production process , Intel will be able to make more of the chips available initially than it usually can when it launches a new part , Paul Otellini , vice-president of the company 's microprocessor group noted — a shortage of 80386s in the early days caused disenchantment with the company at many customers for the chip , who encouraged other companies to clone the chip in the hope of ensuring steady supplies . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Unfortunately the more we talk about it encourages a certain kind of person to continue with it . ’ |
21 | Not for its own sake , naturally , but because apart from any useful function that may be fulfilled , it encourages a proper disregard of Self . |
22 | It encourages a proper attentiveness . |
23 | Some interviewers address candidates by their first names thinking it encourages a relaxed atmosphere . |
24 | My husband has always maintained that it destroys a young man 's ambition to succeed in life if he is financially indulged too young . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream . |
29 | Increase heat until it turns a golden caramel . |
30 | Posteriorly it emits a recurrent nerve which extends along the mid-dorsal line of the oesophagus and , passing just beneath the brain , expands a short distance behind the latter into a hypocerebral gang/ion . |