Example sentences of "[adj] part play [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So as far as you 're concerned , P E Ps have got a tremendous part to play at the moment , and I do recommend that you take advantage of them .
2 There were variations in detail from shire to shire , but the predominant part played by the existing land-owning families seems to have been common .
3 In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’
4 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 ?
5 This must have a major part to play in the increasing mindless violence of young people , imitating what they have been encouraged to believe is ‘ entertainment ’ , namely torture , murder and cannibalism .
6 Foam nonetheless can have an important part to play in the performance of a detergent .
7 Throughout my many years in the travel industry , I have always believed tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries , as well as being a catalyst for economic development .
8 New evidence suggests , however , that it has an important part to play in the lowering of harmful cholesterol .
9 In the fifteenth century , the freelance soldiers had an important part to play in the war .
10 Union members have an important part to play in the continued success of ’ next steps ’ .
11 In a similar way , simply asking children to draw a picture of what happened in their play is wasting an opportunity to move the drama forward and make the work purposeful : the picture could have an important part to play in the drama , in which case the quality of both the drama and the art work improves .
12 Therefore , the mobile teams of young Party workers had important parts to play in the business of electioneering , whether addressing envelopes , delivering manifestos , knocking on doors canvassing , or driving known elderly supporters to the polls .
13 Possibly the declining part played by the merchant families in town government reflects a fall in their economic power .
14 It was partly because of the dominant part played by the Christian religion in that society , with its emphasis on the importance of adherence to rules as the basis for personal conduct and the need for absolute standards in the life of society .
15 yes it says we would like to take this opportunity to answer some of the questions you might have and then the question comes will the management charges greatly increase ? did you have any part to play in the posing of this question in the brochure ?
16 It ignores , for example , the ‘ innumerable autonomous and semi-autonomous , official and quasi-official organizations , each with its own part to play in the policy-making process ’ of local government ( Cousins , 1982 , p. 152 ) .
17 Perhaps certain parts played in the past have not succeeded , and it may be possible to investigate why .
18 It is frequently difficult for staff to accept the notion that anyone other than teachers should have an active part to play in the development of the school and they are often suspicious of the motives of parents who wish to take an extensive part in school life .
19 Many other people have rights , including those concerned with fishing , and in my native Scotland the value of fishing has a significant part to play in the local economy , particulary in remote areas .
20 It seems that some of these proteins might have a significant part to play in the treatment of nerve injury , neuropathies and tumours of glial cell origin .
21 Second , but perhaps not so much in the form of a survival as in that of a revival , Russian Formalism had a significant part to play in the development of Parisian structuralism during the 1960s ( particularly in the work of Todorov and Genette ) .
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