Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] play a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 2 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 3 | During the discussions , it is clear that the Germans played a decisive role , insisting right at the end of the discussions ( at the penultimate meeting in March 1989 ) on binding rules on national budget deficits . |
| 4 | These glands are concentrated in the hairier parts of our bodies and the hairs play a vital part in smell production . |
| 5 | Much of the next two years was passed in efforts to avert just such a development , and in these efforts the clergy played a positive role . |
| 6 | Like the Indians and Levantines in modern Africa , the Jews played a vital part in fertilizing the economy of medieval Europe . |
| 7 | The witches play a vital part in a touring production of Roald Dahl 's classic book . |
| 8 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 9 | IRRESISTIBLE FORCE , THE GRID and ASTRALASIA are amongst the bands playing a ten hour ‘ Shamanarchy At Whirl-Y-Gig ’ festival , featuring didgeridoos , brain machines , massage services and a full range of New Age accoutrements at |
| 10 | You obviously believe that the dealers play an important part in determining the short list . |
| 11 | Improvisation and expression as well as musical accompaniment of the exercises plays a central role in the training programme of the Medau-Schule . |
| 12 | Italy 's and Spain 's lack the training and much of the arms to play a credible part in a future European force . |
| 13 | The females play a dominant role , marking out for themselves a large territory on the lotus beds . |
| 14 | But , as was suggested might be the case in an earlier article , the procedures played an essential part in producing the circumstances which ultimately rendered her vulnerable to the more informal pressures on her to resign . |
| 15 | Equivalent of the Territorial Army , the Volunteers played a major role in Hong Kong 's doomed resistance against the Japanese early in the Pacific War . |
| 16 | During the Second World War , and in the decade that followed , the development of microwave generators required an understanding of more intense beams , where the ‘ space-charge ’ forces arising from the mutual interaction of the electrons played an essential part in determining their behaviour . |
| 17 | The process should encourage the pupils to play an active role in learning . |
| 18 | The hospitals play a major part in treating diseases , in dealing with the victims of accidents , and their rehabilitation . |
| 19 | Some of the houses in this neighbourhood belonged to industrial barons , and even a few of the aristocrats played a leading part as entrepreneurs . |
| 20 | I think I would maybe go to a match if the women played a wee game before the men came on . |
| 21 | The Bolsheviks played a leading role both in the Moscow Soviet and in the December rising . |
| 22 | Prior to their current UK tour , The Charlatans played a four-date opener in the US — taking in New York , Toronto and Ian Astbury 's Gathering Of The Tribes workouts in LA and San Francisco . |
| 23 | Prior to their current UK tour , The Charlatans played a four-date opener in the US — taking in New York , Toronto and Ian Astbury 's Gathering Of The Tribes workouts in LA and San Francisco . |
| 24 | The churches played a significant part in dealing with this condition and the parish schools were the most important providers of elementary education . |
| 25 | By this time , according to the findings of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , more than three-quarters of the German people regarded the war as lost , and for a large proportion of these the raids played a major part in their loss of hope . |