Example sentences of "it have play a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The role of the Pope is not discussed by Freud , but it has played a key role in the Roman Catholic and Protestant hostilities .
2 Although the United Kingdom is on the continental shelf , it has played a positive part in Europe 's history .
3 Sometimes it has played a pioneering role in bringing about new developments , such as the Renault agreement on the duration of holidays which then became generalised by legislation ( Despax and Rojot , 1979 ) .
4 In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria .
5 Qin had founded this weekly journal in 1980 and it had played a major role in the campaign for economic and political reform in China until being closed down in April 1989 following the outbreak of student demonstrations [ see p. 36587 ] .
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