Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun] to play " in BNC.

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1 Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition .
2 She suggested we try and cook in turns and bring the smaller children to play together in the workshop .
3 When not busy whipping crowds to a frenzy ( but more of the Skin 2 Rubber Ball later ) , they became the first band to play the newly re-opened Stone Pony Club in Asbury Park , New Jersey where , of course , BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN first launched his career .
4 Both systems have two audio tracks and VHD has the added capacity to play back digitally recorded sound from Audio High Density ( AHD ) discs ( with the addition of a special decoder ) .
5 Five days afterwards , callous Paul used the same bat to play baseball .
6 I want the Liberal Democrats to play a major part , both in Britain and in Europe , to turning things round .
7 But I want a Labour Britain to play its full part in bringing about a nuclear-free world , ’ Mr Kaufman said .
8 Her supporters , however , claim that she has returned the party to the essential verities of sound money , lower rates of income tax , strong government , and rolling back government from areas where it has no useful role to play .
9 When two families start living together for whatever reason , everyone has a new role to play and , until new house rules have been established , the children are bound to feel insecure , jealous and anxious .
10 To change this , communication has a decisive role to play . ’
11 It is argued here that the public sector has a crucial part to play in initiating the first moves back to full employment .
12 Tax reform has a crucial part to play in springing the underclass from welfare dependency , as well as building up support for such a programme amongst a much wider group of the electorate .
13 Iron has a crucial role to play in the efficient working of the human body and is vital to healthy living .
14 The GP has a crucial role to play in the development of health services .
15 The Report of the Swann Committee in 1985 added weight to the widely held view that in Britain 's culturally and racially pluralistic society the education system has a crucial role to play in promoting racial harmony .
16 Manchester Computing Centre has a crucial role to play in the care of the datasets .
17 The voluntary sector though , has a greater role to play now than ever before , both as advocate and service provider .
18 ‘ It has a symbolic role to play . ’
19 Does he agree that this type of secondary school has a substantial part to play in the future education of our children in the secondary sector , and will he encourage the development of further city technology colleges in our country ?
20 Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard .
21 Because of the difficulties of getting it all together , the chairperson or co-ordinator has a key part to play ( see Chairing meetings on page 28 ) .
22 ‘ Every individual here tonight has a key part to play in this great plan .
23 The French tyre manufacturer has a key role to play in the Bugatti , and is developing the world 's first ultra-high performance tyre specifically for four-wheel drive supercars .
24 In pursuing this aim , IDB 's Marketing Development Division has a key role to play through the wide range of support which it can offer to all sizes of companies in Northern Ireland involved in manufacturing or providing internationally tradeable services .
25 The chemist has a key role to play in protecting resources , health and the environment , and also preventing the ‘ dumping ’ in developing countries of chemicals rejected as too dangerous for use in the industrial world .
26 The financial controller has a key role to play in facilitating this learning process by improving the way in which the cost-accounting system reveals what really are the cost-drivers ( i.e. the factors really leading to the incidence of specific types of costs ) .
27 There is obviously much uncertainty in these broad generalizations , but geomorphic evidence has a key role to play in relating such global tectonic models to the geological history of the continents .
28 We believe that N C V O has a key role to play in involving the voluntary sector in representing your concerns .
29 The Institute has a key role to play in bringing the expertise of transport professionals to bear on this issue .
30 Beyond social contact , the phone has a practical role to play in the lives of working mothers .
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