Example sentences of "plays a central role in " in BNC.

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1 In agreement with several other complementary therapies , they consider that the spine plays a central role in the link between mental and bodily states .
2 These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action .
3 As described earlier , InsP 3 plays a central role in driving this oscillatory activity and the wave-like spread of each spike may facilitate the transfer of a calcium signal to the nucleus .
4 Catastrophic thinking , both in the misinterpretation of bodily symptoms and the anticipation of disaster , plays a central role in the development and exacerbation of anxiety symptoms .
5 Another example is the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers ( which was set up informally , but as a result of prompting from central government , by major City financial institutions ) ; it plays a central role in the regulation of company mergers and takeovers .
6 As we noted earlier , explanation plays a central role in education .
7 Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people 's daily life .
8 ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said .
9 Improvisation and expression as well as musical accompaniment of the exercises plays a central role in the training programme of the Medau-Schule .
10 Secondly data structures are already beginning to come apart from use structures and GIS plays a central role in this .
11 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 " .
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