Example sentences of "part in [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst lacking serious revolutionary intentions or any clear revolutionary strategy , Largo Caballero and the Socialist left thus played their part in heating up the political atmosphere and making strong Republican government impossible . |
| 2 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |
| 3 | A major part in setting up the Czartoryski Foundation , and in most of the other similar attempts , has been played by an eminence grise familiar to Western art circles , namely the London art dealer Andrew Ciechanowiecki . |
| 4 | His success in summoning up the devil he knew blinded him to any awareness of his own part in bringing about the final outcome . |
| 5 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |