Example sentences of "[noun pl] play an important part " in BNC.

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1 Dealing between GEMMs plays an important part in the maintenance of an efficient and liquid market .
2 Lesbian and gay speakers played an important part in the debate .
3 Moreover , their ability to make sense of the workers ' predicament and articulate their grievances played an important part in mobilizing less sophisticated ranks .
4 By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain .
5 Pictures play an important part in desk-top publishing , business presentations and the like .
6 Eyes play an important part in the role of body balance and it is important to absorb as much information from the environment as possible .
7 In countries where literacy rates are relatively high , books play an important part in the struggle for human rights .
8 In countries where literacy rates are relatively high , books play an important part in the struggle for human rights .
9 These investments played an important part in enabling the enlarged Wood-Way operation to continue its growth throughout the year .
10 These investments played an important part in enabling the enlarged Wood-Way operation to continue its growth during the year , despite a downturn in offshore drilling .
11 These Scudéry-influenced romances played an important part in the genesis of the English novel .
12 An educated and cultivated gentleman , Bell 's travels played an important part in the formation of his taste , both as a connoisseur of paintings and as an architect .
13 You obviously believe that the dealers play an important part in determining the short list .
14 Junior military officers played an important part in orchestrating rural opposition within a movement which , in reasserting the ideal of service to the state , took on an anti-capitalist tone .
15 Certainly geography helped and prevailing economic conditions played an important part , but most towns seem to have come into existence as a result of conscious decisions .
16 Strength — muscle conditioning Good muscle tone helps maintain stability of the joints and the postural muscles play an important part in a remarkable number of everyday tasks .
17 Green 's research reported in Swann ( 1985 ) demonstrated that intolerant teachers gave least time and attention to Afro-Caribbean boys and Asian girls , while a major investigation , Education for Some , documented that academically able Afro-Caribbean pupils were finding themselves relegated to lower bands and were being entered for examinations below their abilities , with teachers perceptions playing an important part in the discriminatory misallocation ( Eggleston et al . ,
18 If anyone is in any doubt that financial questions play an important part in the new arrangements of care in the home and private residential care — or ‘ care in the community ’ as the government would have it — they could usefully have watched the BBC TV Panorama programme ‘ Dumping Granny ’ on 26 April .
19 The cytochrome P450 , epoxide hydrolase , and gluthathione S-transferase enzyme families play an important part in the metabolism of many carcinogens and anti-cancer drugs .
20 Common grazings played an important part in most farm enterprises : on average only 6% of the farm was owned by the farmer/crofter .
21 In counselling , indeed in any of the ‘ talking ’ therapies , tears play an important part , first of all in the release of tension , and later as a way of directing attention to areas which are ‘ tender ’ and might repay exploration .
22 IT has been suggested that Hox genes play an important part in the patterning of limbs , vertebrae and craniofacial structures by providing an ordered molecular system of positional values , termed the Hox code .
23 A performer can only prove his talent by performing — meanwhile by their subscriptions members play an important part in making Equity effective .
24 They should help the children to make an account of any differences in grammar or vocabulary between the local dialect of English and Standard English , recognising that local speech forms play an important part in establishing a sense of group identity .
25 In experimental models of gastric damage , there is evidence that the ability of the gastric mucosa to synthesise prostaglandins plays an important part in mediating adaptive cytoprotection .
26 Morals play an important part in both novels and the reader notices that Jane Austen is actually a moralist .
27 Marshes play an important part in keeping sediment out of the bay 's waters .
28 We must acknowledge that honorary colonels of regiments play an important part .
29 During the heyday of the Ottoman rule in Europe the Bosnian Muslims played an important part in the administration of the empire , one of them , Mehmet Sokolović , rising to be grand vizier to the sultan , Suleiman the Magnificent , in the sixteenth century .
30 The importance of the morality organisations lay not so much in their mass membership as in the specific influence they could demonstrate in moments of crises , the forces they could mobilise , the pressures they could bring to bear , the ears they could bend , the opportunities they could seize , and here conjunctural political factors played an important part .
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