Example sentences of "has played [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 2 | Pakistan 's history has been punctuated by army coups and periods of martial law , but Gen Beg has played a major stablising role since the death of military president Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in August last year . |
| 3 | There is , however , a minority of people coming to the notice of the police or courts in whom mental disorder has played a direct causal role in the offence . |
| 4 | Except for an unsuccessful trip to Baghdad before the allied air offensive , the UN 's secretary-general , Javier Perez de Cuellar , has played a minor diplomatic part . |
| 5 | The Gaullist RPR , which has played the leading historical role in helping German postwar political recovery — while opposing any military revival — has given the most unequivocal welcome to the idea that Germany could again be one nation . |