Example sentences of "[verb] a central role in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the very fact that poetry has a central role in Soviet life means that much of it is conservative in form and predictable in content . |
| 2 | The blood of animals was also sacred , or seen as belonging particularly to the deity , and so its shedding played a central role in Jewish cult . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people 's daily life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Secondly data structures are already beginning to come apart from use structures and GIS plays a central role in this . |
| 7 | Smart was not the first to try to modernise the psalms , which had played a central role in Anglican worship since the Reformation . |
| 8 | Alan Walker argues that the social security policies have played a central role in puffing people on the margins of society , forcing them into retirement and then providing them with a pension which reduces many older people to economic dependency and even poverty . |
| 9 | The banks have played a central role in this industrial restructuring . |
| 10 | However , the social security system has played a central role in these processes as an element of government economic management , particularly where it has been used to support employment policies aimed at the exclusion of increasing numbers of older people from the labour market . |
| 11 | What is less obvious is that drama can have a central role in developing children 's reading and writing skills , not only in English but also in most other curriculum areas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The major histocompatibility ( MHC ) class II antigens are surface heterodimers required for presentation of antigenic peptides to the receptor of T-helper cells ; quantitative variation in the expression of these antigens play a central role in immune response ( 1 ) . |
| 14 | The so-called ‘ comprador bourgeoisie ’ , groups that orient themselves to the interests of foreigners in general and TNCs in particular , play a central role in these analyses of the triple alliance . |
| 15 | Clearly , the class reader so defined , claims a central role in much English teaching since it frequently provides a nucleus of activity through which the needs of pupils — both girls and boys — are addressed . |
| 16 | Platelets have a central role in normal haemostasis . |
| 17 | Indonesia occupies a central role in this market , supplying approximately 50 per cent of Pacific LNG needs . |