Example sentences of "[noun sg] play a central [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Lang 's three-system model of anxiety plays a central part in both our assessment and treatment programme .
3 They conjecture that literacy plays a central part in this process .
4 Recurrent bursts of petitioning on an ever larger scale played a central part in developing and maintaining the dynamic of anti-slave trade agitation up to 1792 and of the emancipation campaign from 1823 .
5 As we noted earlier , explanation plays a central role in education .
6 There is no doubt in de Man 's mind that the image plays a central role in Proust 's thematic opposition , but when one follows " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , the function of the image is subverted : " statements or strategies that tended to remain unnoticed become apparent and undo what the figure seemed to have accomplished " .
7 To return to football hooliganism in Britain itself , it is clear that the existence of ‘ ends ’ at football grounds all over the country plays a central part in maintaining working-class boys ' street-based culture .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 In agreement with several other complementary therapies , they consider that the spine plays a central role in the link between mental and bodily states .
11 Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement .
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