Example sentences of "[noun] to play in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory and Tony Underwood become the first brothers to play in the same England side since the war , while Bath No 8 Ben Clarke makes his debut . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a pleasure to play in the same side as a true football genius . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's every lad 's dream to play in the All Ireland final and now that we have got this far we want to make sure and win . |
| 4 | The 21-year-old full-back from Lillestrom has agreed personal terms with Rovers and is now waiting for formal clearance to play in the Premier League . |
| 5 | Diet , general fitness , golfing psychology and sports injuries all feature among the discussion topics and have their part to play in the overall picture . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | This bothers the commission 's president , Jacques Delors , who thinks the Community has a part to play in the Middle East . |
| 9 | Union members have an important part to play in the continued success of ’ next steps ’ . |
| 10 | Economic conditions , nationally and locally , the size and location of the firm , and the availability of finance will all have a part to play in the final decision . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is problematic for a group which has no longer a part to play in the productive sector . |
| 13 | They must have the desire to play in the Premier League . ’ |
| 14 | While this organ could and did assume the executive functions of a provisional government , its creation did not resolve two crucial problems : what roles were the existing political parties and the mass of the population to play in the New State . |
| 15 | Only the winner and the runner-up in Asia will get the chance to play in the next World Cup preliminaries . |
| 16 | In conclusion , the Action Teams can help local groups in a wide variety of ways and while some of the ideas may be criticised , they all have some role to play in the economic regeneration of the area . |
| 17 | The crossing had a vital role to play in the economic regeneration of the region , it argued in a statement , and controversy over the Oxleas link should not delay construction of the bridge itself . |
| 18 | In so doing , we recognise that CCW has a vital role to play in the immediate future , but we also recognise that many other ‘ actors ’ must also play their part in moving Wales towards sustainability . |
| 19 | Iron has a crucial role to play in the efficient working of the human body and is vital to healthy living . |
| 20 | Mr McKiernan believes that this service will have an even more important role to play in the financial services sector in the future . |
| 21 | It is unlikely that the InsP 3 /calcium pathway has any role to play in the rapid signal transfer mediated by ionotropic receptors , but there is growing evidence that many metabotropic receptors employ phosphoinositide-derived signals to modulate both neural activity and the neural plasticity responsible for memory . |
| 22 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 23 | The secure places are fully used , but secure accommodation is an expensive resource and one which has its role to play in the full range of provision . |
| 24 | Be that as it may , the intuitive reality of such structures is borne out also by the fact that generations of language teachers have recognized that they have a leading role to play in the initial stages of learning , because of what I have called their valency or combining power . |
| 25 | He soon came to doubt ‘ the optimism of avant-garde movements ’ , abandoning any illusion that art had a vital role to play in the ideological struggle . |
| 26 | The honorary colonel system therefore has an important role to play in the British Army . |
| 27 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 28 | •Sandy Lyle turned down the invitation to play in the 1989 Ryder Cup . |
| 29 | Once upon a time , there was a small team from Gloucester called Tredworth , who came back from financial ruin to play in the Provincial Cup Final at Twickenham . |