Example sentences of "playing a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless it is clearly playing a useful part in a prevention campaign ; indeed , the greater the number of elements in such a strategy the better . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 3 | Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement . |
| 4 | Far from being on the shelf , the school library is playing a central role in the delivery of the national curriculum in secondary schools — actively used by teachers , an asset for the school and a haven of pastoral support for students . |
| 5 | But the French were capable of playing a similar game . |
| 6 | Murray forecast another tough battle with Bolton playing a similar game to Swansea , who triumphed at the Victoria Ground on Saturday . |
| 7 | The first on Tyneside was syndicalist , organized around shop-stewards in engineering and the shipyards with lodge officials and the activists of the Seaman 's Reform Movement playing a similar role in mining and shipping . |
| 8 | Long-term difficulties were capable of playing a similar role . |
| 9 | COURTAULDS has been in the front line in war-ravaged Bosnia — after playing a similar role in the Gulf conflict . |
| 10 | In the house , Ellwood took the old man by the shirtfront and pulled him round in a circle , then round again , as if they were playing a manic version of Ring o' Roses . |
| 11 | Free elections , which could result in the Communist Party being reduced to playing a junior role , are seen as the only realistic way forward to end East Germany 's political and economic crisis . |
| 12 | A few wild men playing a violent game . |
| 13 | More importantly , this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society . |
| 14 | Playing a crucial role in achieving that goal will be the firm 's new policy of making sales to end users entirely via a network of third party distributors , which Rabbit promises to support with unfailing commitment . |
| 15 | Losing Out maintains that the widening of class differences along a whole front has largely been brought about by the Government 's ‘ success , in redistributing income and wealth towards the haves to the exclusion of the have-nots , and that this widening of class differences is playing a crucial role in the emergence of an underclass in Britain . |
| 16 | They are already playing a crucial role in multimedia design and development . |
| 17 | Tenison and thirteen of the bishops voted against the Occasional Conformity Bill in the Lords in December 1702 , playing a crucial role in defeating a measure which was lost by seventy-one votes to fifty-nine . |
| 18 | Pakistan and South Africa were playing a crucial game at the Gabba in Brisbane when rain intervened to make South Africa 's total of 211 appear almost invincible . |
| 19 | He is playing a relaxing game of bridge with friends in the cosy surrounds of his lounge and winning commandingly . |
| 20 | KATE could n't make up her mind all through dinner whether Ace was playing a deep game with her or had decided that as she was available , so to speak , he intended to continue making love to her . |
| 21 | Robert was playing a deep game . |
| 22 | As Mao 's personal secretary and speechwriter for over 30 years , Chen was one of the ‘ Great Helmsman ’ 's closest confidants , writing countless tracts and playing a key role in the Cultural Revolution , Mao 's catastrophic campaign to purify the Communist party hierarchy and revive what he imagined to be China 's fading revolutionary ardour in the 1960s . |
| 23 | The Commission foresees the agency playing a key role in collecting and distributing technical , scientific and economic information already being generated by existing national organisations . |
| 24 | Local communities will help design services to meet their needs , with voluntary groups playing a key role in delivering services . |
| 25 | The new republics also foresee themselves playing a key role as trading intermediaries between the new CIS and the West . |
| 26 | Wigan went down 17-0 to St Helens , with ex-Wigan scrum-half Gus O'Donnell playing a key role for Saints . |
| 27 | The residues identified as playing a key role in ICAM-1/LFA-1 interactions are conserved in ICAM-3 , although other subtle differences may affect interaction with LFA-1 . |
| 28 | Bifano claimed that Cetia is playing a key role in validating PowerPC microprocessor designs still being developed at the Somerset Center in Austin , Texas . |
| 29 | This puts black women directly in the firing line : firstly , because they are seen as playing a key role in reproducing the alien culture , and , secondly , because their fertility is identified as excessive and therefore threatening . |
| 30 | Offwood 's religious activism gave him a widespread reputation as a leading layman in Amsterdam 's English religious community , and he was widely suspected of playing a key role in the production of many other Nonconformist religious tracts . |