Example sentences of "[vb pp] as play a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one member of the feudal class , Sir Robert Knolles , is reported as playing a major part in the attack on the rebels in London , although the earl of Suffolk and Bishop Despenser of Norwich were prominent in the repression in East Anglia . |
| 2 | Both schemes are accepted as playing a valuable role in institutional and personal development . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It has been argued that the artefact may perhaps best be understood as playing a series of bridging roles . |
| 5 | In relation to Bourdieu 's concept of habitus , the artefact was noted as playing a pivotal role in social reproduction , where it forms part of a reconciliation of objectivist accounts exposing the mechanisms which create the subject in history with an interpretation of the social subject 's role as active agent in the formulation of historical strategy . |
| 6 | Small scale enterprise and self-employment are increasingly recognised as playing a major role in Britain 's economy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the different ‘ policy groups ’ that have been identified as playing a part in policy-making and associated with specific interests and policy proposals are all bureaucrats — the military , industrial managers , agricultural experts , state officials , the economic bureaucracy , the party apparatus , police officials ( Brezezinski and Huntington 1964 ; Asparturian 1968 ; Skilling and Griffiths 1971 ; Schwartz and Keech 1968 ) . |