Example sentences of "[noun pl] play [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory and Tony Underwood become the first brothers to play in the same England side since the war , while Bath No 8 Ben Clarke makes his debut . |
| 2 | Teachers will have diverse roles to play in the development of young writers : they will be observers , facilitators , modellers , readers and supporters . |
| 3 | The accountant , and for that matter any other professional persons , have very important roles to play in the lease and for this purpose alone the tenant will wish to ensure that they are suitably qualified . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The variable which interests us most is that which is concerned with the various roles played by the individual . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is partly because of the preeminent roles played by the senses of vision and hearing in Man and partly due to historical reasons . |
| 17 | We shall see that the conflicts between the different roles played by the judge in the political order persist today . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I have seen foxes playing in the brambles , and once a red deer walked past on the opposite bank . |
| 21 | The images play on the deepest fears of the adventurers , and the man in the mask laughs again . |
| 22 | Kids play on the tips amidst swarms of flies . |
| 23 | Kids play in the snow , the seasons change but winter soon returns . |
| 24 | Readability implies that a particular target readership has the experience — the visual , intellectual , and emotional experience — to identify the detail in pictures , to understand what is happening in pictures , and to have some understanding of what is happening ‘ beyond ’ the pictures ( atmosphere , psychological states , what is being demonstrated in an informative illustration ) — in other words , what part the pictures play in the total book , what they contribute . |
| 25 | Katherine gazed into the fire , the leaping flames , let her eyes play over the fine marble hearth , the painting by George Grosz above it , with its hectic planes , its lurid faces , a satirist 's black view of life in the metropolis . |
| 26 | Dexter let his eyes play over the clutter designed to bless the pub with a friendly air : two post horns slung like bombs from the ceiling , mock Tudor beams , lines of plates balanced on every available ledge , and a grubby portrait of the Queen hung in dusty splendour above the bar . |
| 27 | The French government asked SPRU to look at what role such methods play in the British system . |
| 28 | If reserves play in the first team they still charge first team prices . |
| 29 | So did two or three naked kids playing on the strip of beach . |
| 30 | It 's especially worrying when you see the kids playing in the street . |