Example sentences of "[verb] played a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could argue that British inhibition has played a part in the poverty of British scripts . |
| 2 | It has played a part in cementing European unity . |
| 3 | The first is the animal , the bestial , which has played a part in symbolising occult and malevolent forces throughout history . |
| 4 | EVERYONE who has played a part in the remarkable reduction in the number of deaths due to drink-driving deserves to be congratulated . |
| 5 | Though less of a working class sport than the others , cricket has played a part in gaining blacks ' acceptance as legitimate sportsmen through exposing black West Indians as players of enormous proficiency . |
| 6 | The discipline has played a part in studies of sexuality since the nineteenth century , when it contributed to scientific and popular debate about the biological and social determination of sexual behaviours . |
| 7 | In France too , corruption has played a part , though so has the ennui that follows more than a decade of rule by one party . |
| 8 | To withhold that assistance constitutes an irregularity which may be material depending on the circumstances , since , if the jury return a guilty verdict , one can not tell whether some misconception or irrelevance has played a part . |
| 9 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 10 | International migration has played a part since young adults and families are more than proportionately represented in these flows , but the prime factor is the variation in the size of age groups resulting from previous fluctuations in births . |
| 11 | Even the control of birth has played a part in it , although we are not very much in favour of how it is done by the system . |
| 12 | As one would expect campanology has played a part in family life , and is shared with husband , daughter and grandsons . |
| 13 | The National Grid Company has played a centra role in the development of the new competitive electricity market . |
| 14 | He has played a lot more than the greasy git , scored more goals , made more important passes , lifted the team when we were down , need I go on ? |
| 15 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said he was not throwing Ironside to the wolves at Molineux : ‘ Ironside is 28 , not 18 , and has played a lot of games . |
| 16 | Lawrence added : ‘ Ironside is 28 , not 18 , and has played a lot of games . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , one wonders to what extent higher education in the UK has played a role in creating not a military-industrial , but financial-bureaucratic complex , dominated by the City and the Treasury , which works to the long-term disadvantage of not simply manufacturing but all forms of ‘ producer ’ industries . |
| 18 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 19 | Our plea to the Government is that they take a leaf out of their own book on the independent living fund , which was set up in haste and has played a role that it was never meant to play . |
| 20 | It is hoped that the work will contribute to policy : in establishing the different senses of environmental degradation that tourism may engender ; in considering whether tourism in fact has played a role in generating a heightened green awareness ; and in demonstrating the diverse kinds of environment that visitors expect even in an area of outstanding ‘ natural ’ beauty as in the Lake District . |
| 21 | the octopus has played a symphony |
| 22 | At some point or other in his career he has played a transvestite , a hunchback , a priest , a sado-masochist and an assortment of thugs . |
| 23 | A law enforcement source , speaking on condition of anonymity , said the person arrested had been linked to a rental van that investigators believed played a role in the bombing . |
| 24 | After he 'd played a couple of tunes , the organ grinder took off his old frayed cap and handed it round the crowd that had gathered . |
| 25 | The leader hesitated and looked at the bandmaster , who said that they 'd like to but after they 'd played a request for us . |
| 26 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 27 | Other factors may also have played a part . |
| 28 | It was hard to avoid the conclusion that while pique may have played a part in its foundation , it had come into being not so much to benefit its members in terms of strengthening trade within the seven , but on the basis of a belief that in unity there was strength : in other words , as a group of seven they would be in a less disadvantageous position vis-à-vis the Six than if each separately attempted to negotiate some accommodation with the Six . |
| 29 | Drugs may have played a part too . |
| 30 | Other mechanisms must have played a part and their inclusion could alter the best-fit climate sensitivities significantly and lead to improved values for the explained variance . |