Example sentences of "[noun sg] has played [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To withhold that assistance constitutes an irregularity which may be material depending on the circumstances , since , if the jury return a guilty verdict , one can not tell whether some misconception or irrelevance has played a part .
2 International migration has played a part since young adults and families are more than proportionately represented in these flows , but the prime factor is the variation in the size of age groups resulting from previous fluctuations in births .
3 One could argue that British inhibition has played a part in the poverty of British scripts .
4 the octopus has played a symphony
5 Though less of a working class sport than the others , cricket has played a part in gaining blacks ' acceptance as legitimate sportsmen through exposing black West Indians as players of enormous proficiency .
6 Even the control of birth has played a part in it , although we are not very much in favour of how it is done by the system .
7 As one would expect campanology has played a part in family life , and is shared with husband , daughter and grandsons .
8 In France too , corruption has played a part , though so has the ennui that follows more than a decade of rule by one party .
9 The National Grid Company has played a centra role in the development of the new competitive electricity market .
10 We are pleased that a dispute in which the current management of pergamon Press has played no part has now come to an end .
11 The discipline has played a part in studies of sexuality since the nineteenth century , when it contributed to scientific and popular debate about the biological and social determination of sexual behaviours .
12 This neutrality is bred through a past where family has played no part .
13 It is hoped that the work will contribute to policy : in establishing the different senses of environmental degradation that tourism may engender ; in considering whether tourism in fact has played a role in generating a heightened green awareness ; and in demonstrating the diverse kinds of environment that visitors expect even in an area of outstanding ‘ natural ’ beauty as in the Lake District .
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