Example sentences of "plays a [adj] [noun sg] [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 According to press reports , road-blocking now plays a regular part in police efforts to control the movement of fans on their way to football matches .
3 Reinforcement , or lack of it , plays a major part in all behaviour and is especially important when attempting to get people to do what you want them to do .
4 There is something very special about climbing hills where the sea plays a major part in the surrounding scenery .
5 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 .
6 Guilt plays a major part in the who's-that-at-the-door game .
7 A levy of some sort is essential , so that the industry plays a major part in all training .
8 The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time .
9 Because the effective osmotic pressure exerted by ethanol is far less than its measured osmotic pressure , however , it is unlikely that high osmolarity plays a major part in the production of acid inhibition by ethanol .
10 Carnitine plays a major part in cellular energy production .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 In other words , the distance that a subject is placed away from the host or hostess , plays a major role in behaviour .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ( WRVS ) plays a major role in organising and delivering these meals to the homes of elderly people .
18 As the largest provider of visit attractions in Scotland , Historic Scotland plays a major role in the Scottish tourism industry .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Entertainment in Japan plays a major role in establishing personal and business relationships .
26 This harmonic minor scale plays a major role within western music , and there are a number of useful things which are derived from it .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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