Example sentences of "play a minor role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little likelihood that cereals played a minor role in the economy . |
| 2 | A national industrial relations system formulated with labour organisations which are an adjunct to a successful nationalist movement , which has secured independence , may be expected to show some characteristics different from [ one ] in which national independence antedated the union movements or in which the union movements played a minor role in the nationalist movement . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Learning plays a minor role in communicating and apparently is not itself affected by it . |
| 5 | The point was made in Chapter 2 that many organisational buying decisions are complex , involving many people whose evaluative criteria may differ , and that the purchasing officer may play a minor role in deciding which supplier to choose , particularly with very expensive items . |
| 6 | Many other substances play a minor role as insect pigments , occurring either in small amounts or only in a few species . |
| 7 | In this regard , data on the helix-coil melting transition in single strands of DNA and RNA present an opportunity to study structure formation that benefits from base stacking interactions ( analogous to those found in the double stranded helix ) , but where hydrogen bonds play a minor role in structure stabilisation ( and then only involve ribose hydroxyl groups in single stranded RNA ) . |