Example sentences of "[noun pl] played [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Style-zones ’ may be identified , but the roles played by the craftsman and the consumer ( if such a model is correct ) in the generation of such patterns is unclear . |
| 10 | The following analysis of the influence of armaments engineers on policy making also holds good for telecoms engineers : The key roles played by the corps of armaments engineers in making France 's arms complex run can hardly be exaggerated . |
| 11 | The variable which interests us most is that which is concerned with the various roles played by the individual . |
| 12 | Having described the control procedures of public expenditure , we ought also to mention briefly the roles played by the Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) and the various Select Committees of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | This is partly because of the preeminent roles played by the senses of vision and hearing in Man and partly due to historical reasons . |
| 14 | We shall see that the conflicts between the different roles played by the judge in the political order persist today . |
| 15 | If we wish to examine the problem of recidivism amongst offenders , to look at the prisons alone would ignore the crucial roles played by the courts and the Home Office in the determination of sentences and the prison system we have . |
| 16 | Despite the equivalent roles played by the HSV-1 Vmw175 and VZV 140k proteins in their respective viruses and the high level of sequence homology between their DNA binding domains , numerous differences in their DNA binding characteristics are apparent and are likely to have an important bearing on their activities during infection . |
| 17 | The project investigates the seriously neglected history of employers ' organisations and the role such associations played in the evolution of a system of industrial relations in the cotton industry between 1870-1939 . |
| 18 | From her knowledge of the artists ' attitudes to their work , she pointed to the part that uncertainties played in the process of making their sculpture . |
| 19 | Five of the South Africans played last Wednesday in the final of the Benson and Hedges night series in Johannesburg while a similar number of the West Indians played in the Geddes Grant final on Saturday in Port of Spain . |
| 20 | Instead , nationalist argument and continual bickering between nation-states played on the fears and worries of the borderlands . |
| 21 | The deckchairs flapped , the youngsters played on the outfield , the old gentlemen put on the caps and began to leave as Arlott summed up one more day of country cricket . |
| 22 | The tunes played by the 25-year-old former London College of Music student have become a feature at the club this season and the Crewe directors intend to reward him with a free season ticket . |
| 23 | The poverty of their lives played across the silvered windows like a back-projection in a film , lending perspective and contrast to the satiated self-indulgence of his . |
| 24 | Next month we 'll analyze some lines played by the greats exploring the different contexts of the ever-changing triplet groove . |
| 25 | Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of the ‘ phantasmagorical antics ’ he had played in describing the socialist community which appears in The Blithedale Romance : the antics played in the commune conceived by Ahmed could also be called phantasmagorical . |
| 26 | A certain Mr Tomlinson was in trouble ‘ having several times played in the upper part of the links with some gentleman who was not a member of the Club and who had on each occasion omitted to pay his green fee ’ ( at this time 2s. 6d . ) . |
| 27 | All-England XIs played in the area , and pre-war touring Test teams came down . |
| 28 | Richard 's fingers played with the card as he recalled their first meeting , 13 years ago , at Adam 's party . |
| 29 | Robyn watched as his hands moulded and caressed each silken mound , heard the gasp of delight escape from her own lips as his fingers played with the darkened peaks . |
| 30 | Innumerable electrical scintillations played through the chaos of vapours , and at the same time that the ears were deafened by a frightful fracas . |