Example sentences of "[verb] play a big [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Heart 's desire : Jeffrey Archer who wants to play a bigger role in politics
2 Luck has played a big part .
3 However the Soviet drama unfolds , the Communist Party or its derivatives are bound to play a big part .
4 The report argued that the specialist should be encouraged to develop managerial skills and be allowed to play a bigger role in the strategic decisions of the organisation .
5 Music continues to play a big part in playground conversations .
6 Wigs , hair pieces and extensions will continue to play a big part in the way hair looks in '92 .
7 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 .
8 In young miocenics the glad may be very over active when it should have become atrophied , and in some patients , not very many , there may be a benign tumour of the gland and erm but we do n't think that that tumour does itself provoke the immune response , but there is a distant and rare cousin of miocenia gravis , the lampodetonmiocenic syndrome , where cancer does play a bigger part .
9 Foreign investors have played a big part in pushing up share prices .
10 Some of them have played a big part at local council level and it does n't turn nationalists into unionists .
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