Example sentences of "to play a central role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a letter in the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1790 , ‘ Philippos ’ , identified by Pugh as Granville Penn , who was to play a central role in the foundation of the London Veterinary College , wrote that he ‘ had often lamented the failure of the plan which the late ingenious M Bourgelat had formed for establishing a veterinary school in England ’ . |
| 3 | Truth , trust , acceptance , restraint , obligation — these are among the social virtues grounded in religious belief which are also now seen to play a central role in the functioning of an individualistic , contractual economy . |
| 4 | One was Alan Hayling , who was later to play a central role in the story of News on Sunday . |
| 5 | On the basis of these studies , Ca 2+ is suggested to play a central role in photorecovery and light adaptation , not only by regulating guanylate cyclase , possibly through recoverin , but also by modulating the cGMP-gated channel through calmodulin interaction with the 240K protein . |
| 6 | The idea of democracy as a threat to liberty was not new , as we have seen ; but it was to play a central role in modern liberal thinking about democracy . |
| 7 | Expression of P3A + variant in thymus , which is believed to play a central role in the induction of autoimmune MG , may have important clinical implications . |
| 8 | The thymus is believed to play a central role in the induction of autoimmunity in MG , and thymectomy generally leads to clinical improvement ( 23 ) . |
| 9 | The human papillomaviruses ( HPV ) types 16 and 18 which are believed to play a central role in the development of cervical carcinoma exhibit a strict epithelial tropism infecting only the genital mucosa and perigenital epidermis ( for reviews see 1 , 2 ) . |