Example sentences of "an important role in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
| 2 | THE London Metal Exchange has played an important role in the exposure of an alleged scam by an American company with a virtually identical name , writes Jonathan Confino in New York . |
| 3 | The introduction of inflationary expectations into the Phillips relationship created what is known as the expectations-augmented Phillips curve and this plays an important role in the monetarist approach to inflation . |
| 4 | In contrast to this , women play an important role in the Gospel . |
| 5 | This was announced to the waiting press and supporters by Dr Helen Martini , who was to play an important role in the fight to get the children home in the weeks that followed . |
| 6 | McGee looked the part from the word go , playing an important role in the right-back position which caused Scarborough problems all season . |
| 7 | It 's main 32 acre site incorporates the most up-to-date laboratory and production facilities , bearing witness to the commitment to research and development which have played such an important role in the company 's dramatic growth . |
| 8 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 9 | Doctors for Tobacco Law will now take up an important role in the campaign , working closely with ASH , the British Medical Association , the Coronary Prevention Group , the British Heart Foundation and many other medical organisations . |
| 10 | The subsequent spread of this strain to Manchester and other regional centres also provided strong circumstantial evidence that social contact outside hospital played an important role in the spread of this strain . |
| 11 | The results of this study showed that tissue type plasminogen activator activation may play an important role in the pathogenesis of endothelin induced mucosal injury of rat stomach , and suggest that the platelet activating factor may be involved in the process of regional fibrinolytic activation induced by endothelin-1 . |
| 12 | This would suggest that , as in cirrhosis , portal hypertension plays an important role in the pathogenesis of ascites in acute liver failure . |
| 13 | These results indicate that platelet activating factor plays an important role in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis probably by reducing the blood flow and increasing vascular permeability in the pancreas . |
| 14 | The implication is that cholesteryl esters may play an important role in the pathogenesis of alcohol induced pancreatic injury . |
| 15 | It has been recently shown that leukocyte accumulation within the mucosal blood vessels plays an important role in the pathogenesis of indomethacin induced gastropathy . |
| 16 | Stan Parry , the RAC 's regional operations manager , said : ’ Service history and satisfactory vehicle documentation play an important role in the purchase of this marque . |
| 17 | Hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy have an important role in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding , but all young sexually active women should have a cervical swab taken to detect chlamydia in the first instance , irrespective of the sexual history . |
| 18 | Structural genes code for luxury proteins that play an important role in the life of the cells — haemoglobin in red blood cells , contractile proteins in muscle . |
| 19 | Between 1908 and 1948 several groups negotiated the needs of older people , among them the National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) , the National Spinsters ' Pensions Association ( which played an important role in the reduction of women 's pension age from 65 to 60 ) , the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations ( NFOAPA ) , and the National Old People 's Welfare Committee , established by voluntary groups during the Second World War . |
| 20 | Deep modulation at frequencies -I " is clearly only possible if " , so we still require a " bad cavity " , and we may note that the spectral holes form and refill on a time scale which thus plays an important role in the phenomenon : it has been claimed { 20 } that " population pulsations ' are the primary source of the instability . |
| 21 | Allen was to play an important role in the story of the BUF , in general it was those who came to fascism from outside politics who were to prove the most important elements in the organization . |
| 22 | Apart from some of the actual buildings , little remains in the way of water wheels and machinery , to remind us of what was clearly once an important chain of mills which played an important role in the development of Cheltenham . |
| 23 | You will be able to explore those formative years when Sooty played an important role in the development of children 's entertainment . |
| 24 | Their respective folk art and rural crafts are playing an important role in the development of their clothes . |
| 25 | If sodium retention has an important role in the development of diabetic renal disease a diuretic drug should reduce blood pressure and protect renal function . |
| 26 | This team play an important role in the development and completion of whatever music they become involved with . |
| 27 | The problem is solved by an appeal to the ‘ folk ’ qualities of black American musical traditions , which have played such an important role in the development of twentieth-century popular music . |
| 28 | However , White , in this issue , argues that private actions have played an important role in the development of more effective antitrust in the US , and that the recent decline in the number of cases has allayed the fears , expressed in the 1980s , of excessive litigation . |
| 29 | In the life assurance industry , it means playing an important role in the development of new products . |
| 30 | These joint systems play an important role in the development of weathering forms ( see Section 6.3.1 ) and of drainage patterns ( see Section 16.2.2 ) . |