Example sentences of "[pron] play a [adj] role in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Code-named Ro31–8959 , it targets an enzyme in the Aids virus called proteinase , which plays a crucial role in the construction of the Aids virus in an infected cell by cutting up proteins into viral components . |
| 2 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
| 3 | Of particular concern to most of the members of the FFA was the effect of the drift-netters on the albacore tuna resource , which plays a major role in many Pacific economies . |
| 4 | But the community did have a couple of heroes in the military sense when the Second World War came , both members of a family which plays a leading role in the modern legends of Baldersdale — the Fawcetts of West Birk Hatt |
| 5 | In Canada , the aims of the women 's pressure groups which played a major role in bringing about reforming legislation , have been described as follows : |
| 6 | The Bulgarian Green Party , which played a major role in the movement leading to the overthrow of communism , has changed its name to the Conservative Environmental Party . |
| 7 | It 's an emotive issue and raises questions like whether it 's appropriate that a company such as Daimler-Benz which played a major role in the Third Reich , should be allowed as they want to , to build their headquarters near Hitler 's bunker . |
| 8 | Where both are university teachers , Federman began his career as a critic with a study of Samuel Beckett , Journey to Chaos ( 1965 ) , which played a crucial role in the formation of his attitude towards modern fiction . |
| 9 | Traditional oral forms of communication , which played a central role in the maintenance of social and political order — ensuring continuity and reinforcing values and norms of behaviour — was gradually confronted by a quite different form based on the new technology of print and , generally , on a foreign language . |
| 10 | Racial nationalism , which played a minor role in British fascism in the inter-war period , was to become much more significant in the revival of the tradition after the Second World War . |
| 11 | The commission , chaired by Ahmed Humihia of Algeria , which played a mediatory role in the peace negotiations , condemned the recent rebel attacks . |
| 12 | Br. 191 , 27 , 1095 ) the only mention of protection against poison gas — which played a vital role in World War I — is a photograph of troops wearing a primitive cloth helmet which rapidly became redundant . |
| 13 | In the following chapter we shall encounter another : the recovery of an atomic theory of matter , which played a significant role in the mechanization of nature . |
| 14 | It was necessary to be both ‘ bold and prudent ’ , a phrase which played a large role in the student movement that winter . |
| 15 | For , because they cause alterations in development , they offer the possibility of identifying genes which play a normal role in development . |
| 16 | Transnationalism makes the point that there are actors other than states which play a central role in international events , the obvious examples being multinational corporations and revolutionary groups . |
| 17 | On a national scale , the numerically and financially important small hotel businesses , which play a vital role in the provision of the national stock of tourist accommodation may be performing less well than they could . |
| 18 | Through this Initiative , the University hopes to develop in its graduates and diplomates qualities which will enable them to play a positive role in an increasingly competitive and changing world . |
| 19 | We need to offer an education that enables them to play a positive role in society by giving them the opportunity to use their talents . |
| 20 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 21 | Many hitherto unpublished photographs accompany details of the parts played by the Royal Observer Corps , Civil Defence , Fire , Police and Ambulance services , plus the men and women who worked in the anti-aircraft emplacements , ATS , Balloon Command , and of course the RAF , who played a major role in photographing and bombing the manufacture and launch sites . |
| 22 | Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole . |
| 23 | The final round of the Rome talks was attended by President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe , who played a crucial role in persuading the two leaders to meet , Gaositwe K. T. Chiepe , the Botswanan External Affairs Minister , Emilio Colombo , the Italian Foreign Minister , Mario Raffaelli , the co-ordinator of the mediators , and the other mediators — the Most Rev. Jaime Gonçalves , Archbishop of Beira , André Riccardi , and Don Matteo Zuppi of the Saint Egidio Order . |
| 24 | Leading the attack is the Peking Municipal Party Committee , stacked with zealous ideologues who played a key role in suppressing the student movement . |
| 25 | According to Aviation Week & Space Technology , a Russian design team headed by Stonily Kashafotdinov , who played a key role in the design of the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter , has a completed basic engineering work and wind-tunnel testing for a piston-engined Unlimited air racer which will have supersonic capability . |
| 26 | A CO Down businessman who played a key role in the inter-party talks at Stormont has failed to win a Unionist Party nomination to stand in East Belfast in May 's local government elections . |
| 27 | The government on Aug. 20 withdrew indemnity from three ANC members who played a key role in the movement 's armed struggle — Chris Hani , chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe ( the ANC 's armed wing ) , Ronnie Kasrills , a former Umkhonto intelligence chief , and Mac Maharaj . |
| 28 | Rafael Pardo Ruedas , a former government security adviser who played a key role in negotiating the demobilization and political integration of the left-wing April-19 Movement ( M-19 ) guerrillas in March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37311 ] , was appointed Defence Minister on Aug. 24 , replacing Gen. Oscar Botero Restrepo . |
| 29 | The letter was brought from PLO headquarters in Tunis by Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Joergen Holst , who played a key role in secret Israeli-PLO contacts which lead to the agreement . |
| 30 | Support for the exiled King was greatest amongst Catholic recusants and immigrant Irish in the north , who played a prominent role in the plots of the 1690s . |