Example sentences of "an important role in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This property has given the hyperbola an important role in radar and radio communications generally . |
| 2 | Hedgehogs , surprisingly , have an important role in village life … |
| 3 | Users also seem to play an important role in silicon based semi-conductors and electronic sub-assemblies on printed circuits . |
| 4 | Inference has an important role in comprehension . |
| 5 | Figure 7.5 shows the differences in P(A) for the films that were used in this study , a comparison of this figure with Figure 7.1 suggests that although the total amount of information in a stimulus does play an important role in memory it is clearly not sufficient to explain the recognition results . |
| 6 | The Namibian churches , which played an important role in resistance to the South African regime , and in providing basic education before independence , seem likely to play an important part in this non-formal education . |
| 7 | Female chimpanzees do not often hunt , but they nevertheless play an important role in hunting , and they usually end up gaining access to significant portions of meat . |
| 8 | Links with the disability movement are not simply a part of the justification of student participation , as argued earlier ; they may also play an important role in change within schools . |
| 9 | Even smaller particles of less than 2 um , called picoplankton , may also play an important role in productivity of polar waters , and indeed throughout the world 's oceans . |
| 10 | Video cameras have an important role in training for any profession which works with people . |
| 11 | Equally difficult to quantify are the variables of age and experience , although they are expected to play an important role in language learning . |
| 12 | In Chapter 3 , we saw that children 's comprehension of difficult sentences is similarly influenced by their knowledge of what kinds of events are likely , and we suggested that this kind of non-linguistic knowledge plays an important role in language acquisition . |
| 13 | Echolocation , too , plays an important role in food hunting for dolphins and toothed whales . |
| 14 | The pope 's brother , Richard , played an important role in Roman and papal politics . |
| 15 | DeLong 's own studies in primates , in which he damaged nerves leading from the nucleus basalis of Meynert to widespread regions of the cortex and then tried to use food to reward them for particular behaviour , suggested that the region may play an important role in learning . |
| 16 | Subjective ( human ) judgement plays an important role in executive decision making . |
| 17 | Clearly the total amount of information in a stimulus plays an important role in recognition , however , it is not likely to be the sole determinant of P(A) . |
| 18 | While health visitors are presently considered to be the experts in health promotion , in future nurses of every clinical specialty will be expected to play an important role in health promotion , and in educating patients and colleagues towards self help in addition to getting the very best out of available health resources and expertise . |
| 19 | Teachers clearly have an important role in relation to child abuse . |
| 20 | We have recently shown that children with acute infection have an IgG and IgA response to a 57 kilodalton antigen referred to as Giardia heat shock antigen and this is likely to play an important role in host parasite interactions as its expression is modulated not only by heat shock but also by conditions in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 21 | The model envisages that a regional management tier will have an important role in strategy development , monitoring , and accountability . |
| 22 | I entirely support my hon. and learned Friend 's view that people should be afraid of the law and of being caught , but does he agree that boredom has played an important role in prison riots ? |
| 23 | As with the shape of the bag , size plays an important role in efficiency . |
| 24 | Also of potential importance concerning genetically determined individual variation in alcohol metabolism , is the gene encoding the ethanol inducible form of cytochrome P-450 , P450IIE1 ; this enzyme probably plays an important role in alcohol metabolism in chronic alcoholics following enzyme induction . |
| 25 | show that p53 may play an important role in cell death resulting from treatment with the topoisomerase 2 inhibitor , etoposide , but that it appears to have no involvement in the spontaneous ‘ ageing ’ apoptosis associated with prolonged culture of these thymocytes . |
| 26 | Ever since the Sumerians , the Assyrians and the Persians began trading with other early civilisations thousands of years ago , Oman 's natural harbours have played an important role in world history . |
| 27 | Purchasing plays an important role in production activities . |
| 28 | According to the 1984 OECD survey of Yugoslavia ( p. 19 ) , ‘ In Yugoslavia , monetary policy has typically played an important role in demand management . ’ |
| 29 | In the animal kingdom , we find many such examples of signals that play an important role in courtship . |
| 30 | Spell ( and understand the meaning of ) common roots that have been borrowed from other languages and that play an important role in word-building , eg micro- , psych- , tele- , therm- . |