Example sentences of "[noun pl] play [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Rory and Tony Underwood become the first brothers to play in the same England side since the war , while Bath No 8 Ben Clarke makes his debut .
2 That 's right playing in , the sandpit , that 's right a , a sandpit in the corner for playi we kids to play in you see .
3 Teachers will have diverse roles to play in the development of young writers : they will be observers , facilitators , modellers , readers and supporters .
4 SSDs have two key roles to play in facilitating independent living : working with housing departments to ensure that appropriate accommodation is available ; and ensuring that support services are available to disabled people in their own homes .
5 The accountant , and for that matter any other professional persons , have very important roles to play in the lease and for this purpose alone the tenant will wish to ensure that they are suitably qualified .
6 Although all Piaroa are considered kinsmen , division does exist , of course : there is the factional politicking of the ruwatu ; each individual has dangerous affines , even if they are also kin ; men have different roles to play from women , and because of their difference in cultural capabilities the genders are dangerous for one another , a difference somewhat marked in ritual .
7 The end result was that stonemasons had three sets of images to play with and blend , invariably at their own discretion : images rooted in earlier pagan beliefs , contemporary medieval life and the Bible .
8 So do find opportunities to play with your child , and also the time , occasionally , to observe him/her at play with other children .
9 To coach them better , to give them better opportunities , to give them better opportunities to play at a higher level , to be more competitive rather earlier in their lives .
10 It is noticeable that opportunities to play in 72-hole stroke play events on the amateur circuits are few and far between , whereas a professional will play week in and week out on the professional circuit .
11 A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice .
12 Langton could also play snooker despite his disability , and negotiated 35 steps to play at one club , Preston Crown Court heard .
13 Fowl , pigs and human kids played among yellow and white plastic rubbish — water containers , Exxon oil bottles .
14 Not all the songs played during the evening hailed from the album with the set already suggesting Eddi has more than enough material to record and release another album at fairly short notice .
15 I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen .
16 We have already seen the role that these organizations played at key stages of the struggle .
17 This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 .
18 In addition there are several small pieces including the remarkable Deux marches et un intermède as well as two Concertos , the Concert champêtre for harpsichord in the famous account by Aimée van de Wiele , and the Concerto for Two Pianos played by the composer and Jacques Février .
19 Their seductive latest release ‘ The Pahinui Brothers ’ features contributions from Ry Cooder , David Lindley , Van Dyke Parks and Dwight Yoakam , and ranges a number of modern covers alongside the staple , traditional melodies played by their father .
20 Two of the Nexus percussionists played on Monday , along with another musician who is one of the finest current exponents of her instrument , the violist Rivka Golani .
21 After the interval Bangor Reserves played with great fluency and not surprisingly Dean Doherty scored from an easy chance in the 50th minute .
22 They liked to tell stories of funny replies to canvass enquiries or of japes played against the socialists , when putting up or pulling down posters .
23 The voices played with the slaughter of the innocents , treble and descant hunting each other , while she bowed her head , unable to sing in tune .
24 Revolving light carousels played on the compartment side of a Mk. 1 coach while wind and rain machines battered the corridor side from which David Boyce had to fall and , later Alfred Molina had to dive , to their ‘ deaths ’ .
25 His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight .
26 Until recently , the crucial question centred on the role schools played in determining which children rise socially ( Anthony Heath and John Ridge , ‘ Schools , examinations and occupational attainment ’ , reprinted in Achievement and Inequality in Education , ed .
27 Until recent changes in the structure of the civil service , designed to reduce barriers between the various grades and to stress the importance of many of the managerial roles played in connection with policy implementation , it was possible to draw a fairly clear distinction between the ‘ administrative class ’ , containing the ‘ higher ’ civil servants responsible for policy , and the rest of the civil service .
28 She also makes the crucial point that it is wrong to attribute it to the mass of black people , finding it most marked among some intellectual and political leaders , who also obscure the central roles played by lesbians and gays in black communities .
29 These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other .
30 The antibody technique was essential for teasing out the roles played by external signals and internal factors in the differentiation of glia — the supporting cells of the nervous system — so that is now one of the systems we understand best .
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