Example sentences of "play a role in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his study of Atlanta in Georgia , Hunter ( 1953 ) established that the top ten leaders sifted out in this manner all knew each other well , nominated each other to key committees , were often businessmen holding plural and interlocking directorships of companies , and regularly played a role in major city decisions and state politics . |
| 2 | But the expectations involved in roles are not simply one-directional ; it is not merely the case that a person is expected to play a role in certain typical ways . |
| 3 | The acid microenvironment also plays a role in intestinal absorption of folic acid and oligopeptides . |
| 4 | Anthranoid-containing laxatives — aloe , cascara , frangula , and rhubarb — may play a role in colerectal cancer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scientists can also play a role in improving energy efficiency in their laboratories . |
| 11 | ‘ They play a role in global warming and they are important for dating rocks for the oil industry . ’ |
| 12 | And yet many of the attitudes towards the outside world that had flourished in the Tsarist period still play a role in Soviet and now post-Soviet foreign policy today . |
| 13 | So for example he 's Mill is very keen on the idea of local participation , that everyone should at some point in their lives play a role in local government in some level . |
| 14 | As well as playing a role in grand economic affairs , world-wide integration no less , the station was vital in small-scale local economic relations . |