Example sentences of "[verb] a central role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the very fact that poetry has a central role in Soviet life means that much of it is conservative in form and predictable in content . |
| 2 | It is clear that SCOTVEC has a central role in helping to meet these needs . |
| 3 | He believes that the home has a central role in people 's consciousness , and specifically in their sense of ‘ ontological security ’ . |
| 4 | A year later , he played a central role in founding the Group of 89 , a faction made up of business and professional members of the BLCC who wanted to see a conservative model for Hong Kong 's political development . |
| 5 | Anthropology thus played a central role in the development of Marxism but it would be totally misleading to think of Marx and Engels as early anthropologists . |
| 6 | The blood of animals was also sacred , or seen as belonging particularly to the deity , and so its shedding played a central role in Jewish cult . |
| 7 | After the war Goldschmidt played a central role in the development of the French nuclear power programme and he has some complimentary , uncomplimentary and candid things to say about the British civil nuclear power programme . |
| 8 | Punch played a central role in the evolution of satirical humour and in creating opportunities for the cartoonist and the illustrator . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During the last years of peace Keir Hardie , the leader of British socialism , played a central role in committing the Socialist International to a policy of the general strike against war . |
| 11 | During a visit to the Galapagos in 1835 , Charles Darwin was fascinated by these birds , and they eventually played a central role in developing his theory of evolution through natural selection . |
| 12 | A free , honourable and vigorous press played a central role in exposing Nixon ; the Supreme Court and the Senate stood firm and forced his downfall . |
| 13 | ( d. 1265 ) , keeper of the king 's works at Westminster , son of Odo the goldsmith , played a central role in King Henry III 's rebuilding of Westminster Abbey . |
| 14 | The final activities were another guided tour , back at Wharf Station , where Graham showed us round the museum that he played a central role in setting up . |
| 15 | We have already seen how the endogeneity of inflationary expectations played a central role in Friedman 's critique of the Phillips curve . |
| 16 | And journeys always played a central role in his imagination . |
| 17 | Describing the CNAA in 1965 , Venables said of the wider powers given to it than those of the NCTA , that it was apparent that ‘ it is government policy for the CNAA to exert a central role in the rapid development of a quasi-university system within ‘ the public sector ’ . |
| 18 | The similarities and differences between grief and depression have had a central role in the development of psychoanalytic theory . |
| 19 | ONE OF the finest conductors of his generation , Witold Rowicki had the good fortune to play a central role in his country 's musical reconstruction after the Second World War . |
| 20 | In a letter in the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1790 , ‘ Philippos ’ , identified by Pugh as Granville Penn , who was to play a central role in the foundation of the London Veterinary College , wrote that he ‘ had often lamented the failure of the plan which the late ingenious M Bourgelat had formed for establishing a veterinary school in England ’ . |
| 21 | Truth , trust , acceptance , restraint , obligation — these are among the social virtues grounded in religious belief which are also now seen to play a central role in the functioning of an individualistic , contractual economy . |
| 22 | One was Alan Hayling , who was later to play a central role in the story of News on Sunday . |
| 23 | On the basis of these studies , Ca 2+ is suggested to play a central role in photorecovery and light adaptation , not only by regulating guanylate cyclase , possibly through recoverin , but also by modulating the cGMP-gated channel through calmodulin interaction with the 240K protein . |
| 24 | The idea of democracy as a threat to liberty was not new , as we have seen ; but it was to play a central role in modern liberal thinking about democracy . |
| 25 | Expression of P3A + variant in thymus , which is believed to play a central role in the induction of autoimmune MG , may have important clinical implications . |
| 26 | The thymus is believed to play a central role in the induction of autoimmunity in MG , and thymectomy generally leads to clinical improvement ( 23 ) . |
| 27 | The human papillomaviruses ( HPV ) types 16 and 18 which are believed to play a central role in the development of cervical carcinoma exhibit a strict epithelial tropism infecting only the genital mucosa and perigenital epidermis ( for reviews see 1 , 2 ) . |
| 28 | In agreement with several other complementary therapies , they consider that the spine plays a central role in the link between mental and bodily states . |
| 29 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 30 | As described earlier , InsP 3 plays a central role in driving this oscillatory activity and the wave-like spread of each spike may facilitate the transfer of a calcium signal to the nucleus . |