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 | Smart was not the first to try to modernise the psalms , which had played a central role in Anglican worship since the Reformation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Platelets have a central role in normal haemostasis . |