Example sentences of "play a role in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthranoid-containing laxatives — aloe , cascara , frangula , and rhubarb — may play a role in colerectal cancer . |
| 2 | Carbonate sediment would provide a closer , though still imperfect , match , a reminder that deep mantle recycling and mantle plumes may play a role in long-term climate regulation . |
| 3 | This approach is already suggesting that genetically determined variation in the oxidative metabolism of alcohol may play a role in individual susceptibility to alcohol related liver damage implicating acetaldehyde an an important factor in disease pathogenesis . |
| 4 | Oct-3/4 is expressed in primordial germ cells , unfertilized oocytes and in the inner cell mass and may play a role in early developmental decisions ( 47 ) . |
| 5 | Minor buffering phases such as phlogopite and carbonates , which may play a role in low-degree partial melting of the mantle , have been invoked as an explanation for high U/Pb in areas of old continental lithosphere , but there is no obvious phase that will buffer K and Pb to produce the effect observed in Fig. 3 b , without also affecting Ba or Ti ; Ba/Ce ratios of central Atlantic OIB are in fact relatively uniform . |
| 6 | Such a mechanism could play a role in normal limb development , laying down a basic prepattern of cartilaginous elements : first one element , then two , then three , and so on . |
| 7 | Scientists can also play a role in improving energy efficiency in their laboratories . |