Example sentences of "[vb mod] play into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic setbacks in Europe might play into the hands of the USSR . |
| 2 | The risk that the conference would enable German socialists to divert Allied socialists from their commitment to victory had to be balanced against the certainty that a refusal by Western socialists to respond to Russian calls for a new peace initiative would play into the hands of Bolshevik revolutionary defeatism . |
| 3 | D. F. MacDermot of the Foreign Office minuted that the report from UNTCOK must be considered before determining a course of action : to stipulate a detailed plan in advance would play into the hands of the Russians and of dissident political groups in south Korea . |
| 4 | Although I listened with interest to the case adduced by the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Committee which has made the recommendations , I still believe that the House would be making a great mistake to accept the motion , for it would add to the automatic nature , as it were , of debates and would play into the hands of the Government of the day , thereby strengthening their position over that of the House . |
| 5 | Whatever he did would play into the hands of Isambard , whose traps were always dual , and could not be evaded . |