Example sentences of "[noun] have play a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years now Yamaha have played a major role in digital sound processors and for the new season they have produced several new models . |
| 2 | Experiments on animals have played a crucial role in revealing the disease mechanism in paralysing autoimmune conditions , and some of these experiments are still in progress in Oxford . |
| 3 | These figures for acquisitions mean that general insurance companies have played a significant role in channelling funds from ‘ surplus ’ units towards the government ; they have played a significant part in recent years in financing the PSBR . |
| 4 | His all-embracing marine articles have played a major part in instructing newcomers to the hobby , while many of his photographs show marine fish in their natural settings . |
| 5 | This set the tone for the 1980s , when , despite successive draconian states of emergency , both secondary schools and universities have played a major part in challenging the government . |
| 6 | Staff from the group have played a large part in the Logica data architecture and 1:10K digital mapping consultancies , and have worked with staff from other divisions to start developing a BGS wide approach to digital databases . |
| 7 | In the last ten years social movements of all kinds have played a major part in the transition to democracy ( and not only in Latin America and Eastern Europe ) , in human rights , environmental , peace and other movements . |
| 8 | The banks have played a central role in this industrial restructuring . |
| 9 | Foreign investors have played a big part in pushing up share prices . |
| 10 | The Tyne atmosphere , in the formation of which merchant navy officers have played a major role ( before the war transition from seamen to officer was not uncommon although it is very rare now ) , is well reproduced in a number of memoirs ( see Before the Box Boats by Captain A. W. King horn of Cullercoats , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reductions in personal taxation have played a major role in the revival of enterprise and the increase in risk taking , productivity and output that we have achieved in the past decade ? |
| 12 | In this process the TNCs have played a key role , particularly in the privatization of consumption . |
| 13 | It is clear that law centres have played a significant part in the provision of legal advice , but there are contrasting indications about their future wellbeing . |
| 14 | It should therefore be possible for some colleges , particularly those whose staff have played a substantial role in the development , to use the material produced and offer new courses based on HN Units in session 1989–90 . |
| 15 | The Unit has become a centre for collaborative research ; projects in which members of staff have played a major role include : the perceived health of attenders and non-attenders at a breast screening clinic , an evaluation of the Edinburgh Women 's Health Shop , an evaluation of the ‘ Drinkwise ’ project , a study of smoking and drinking among student nurses , and the evaluation of the Lothian Mobile Mammography Project . |
| 16 | His shrewdness in the transfer market has meant that approximately 20 million pounds have been spent on incoming ‘ talent ’ and many of those world class players such as Jim Leighton , Mike Phelan , Neil Webb and Danny Wallace have played a crucial part in this seasons triumph . |
| 17 | Traditionally doctors have played a small role in the overall management of these types of injuries after the initial stages . |
| 18 | Up to now the police have played a passive role with the hippies , preferring to keep a watchful eye on them . |
| 19 | The police have played a key role in the development of this configuration . |
| 20 | The press have played a major part in popularizing spectator sport and sustaining interest in it , but it is misleading to think of professional football , for example , as having been created or manufactured by the media . |
| 21 | Since the late 1970s , all have experienced economic crises of varying severity in which international factors have played a significant part . |
| 22 | Data networks and their likely continued rapid expansion have played a significant part in US government policy on international trade . |
| 23 | The world 's northern , or boreal , forests have played a key role in mitigating the greenhouse effect by soaking up huge quantities of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | Housing subsidies in the past have sometimes favoured rural areas , but Shucksmith believes that the higher building costs have not been matched , and that ‘ it is clear that central government policies have played a major role in frustrating council housing in rural areas , both through the overall financial allocation to rural areas , and through the constraints imposed on individual developments … . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that the very existence of the BDA and its various activities have played a vital part in fostering the deaf community 's identity and cohesion as a social group . |
| 27 | In the West , techniques such as artificial insemination have played a crucial role in the drive for greater productivity such as higher milk-yields , leaner meat and bigger litters . |
| 28 | The Salvadorean Popular Church has placed particular emphasis on the need to promote women 's equality , both in terms of the traditional exclusion of women religious workers from certain liturgical responsibilities and in society in general : " Women of course have played a subordinate role within the Church but Mns Romero took up our cause . |
| 29 | Statistical returns have played a vital role in the ability to present the activities of the service , nationally and locally in a simple understandable format . |