Example sentences of "[noun pl] have played a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More specifically , it has been suggested that the ‘ underachievement ’ of black pupils in schools has played a significant part in ensuring that second and third generation young British black people continue to find themselves suffering the ‘ disadvantages ’ encountered by their parents and grandparents . |
| 2 | The examples described below illustrate all these , though as yet there do not appear to be many instances of disasters in the management of which GIS has played a significant part . |
| 3 | Experiments on animals have played a crucial role in revealing the disease mechanism in paralysing autoimmune conditions , and some of these experiments are still in progress in Oxford . |
| 4 | There is much to suggest , yet little to confirm , that poor performance in these areas has played a crucial part in affecting the overall performance of the economy . |
| 5 | That same report concluded that high income elasticities and low price elasticities had played a major part in this observed growth . |
| 6 | These figures for acquisitions mean that general insurance companies have played a significant role in channelling funds from ‘ surplus ’ units towards the government ; they have played a significant part in recent years in financing the PSBR . |
| 7 | His all-embracing marine articles have played a major part in instructing newcomers to the hobby , while many of his photographs show marine fish in their natural settings . |
| 8 | The role of the sculpture collections has played a powerful force in the history of ideas , which makes this book as much about nineteenth-century thought as about Bassae , Didyma , Halicarnassus , Nimrud or Xanthos . |
| 9 | This set the tone for the 1980s , when , despite successive draconian states of emergency , both secondary schools and universities have played a major part in challenging the government . |
| 10 | In the last ten years social movements of all kinds have played a major part in the transition to democracy ( and not only in Latin America and Eastern Europe ) , in human rights , environmental , peace and other movements . |
| 11 | The banks have played a central role in this industrial restructuring . |
| 12 | Foreign investors have played a big part in pushing up share prices . |
| 13 | The Tyne atmosphere , in the formation of which merchant navy officers have played a major role ( before the war transition from seamen to officer was not uncommon although it is very rare now ) , is well reproduced in a number of memoirs ( see Before the Box Boats by Captain A. W. King horn of Cullercoats , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Infrastructure-building assisted by official Japanese loans has played a significant role in promoting economic self-reliance and development in Asian countries by stimulating local private economic activities through trade and investment . |
| 15 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 16 | It is clear that law centres have played a significant part in the provision of legal advice , but there are contrasting indications about their future wellbeing . |
| 17 | The poets and critics had played a considerable part in stimulating and organizing the first manifestations of the Cubists , but the connections between Orphism and contemporary literature were stronger and more direct . |
| 18 | Traditionally doctors have played a small role in the overall management of these types of injuries after the initial stages . |
| 19 | Noise and danger resulting from too many vehicles has played a significant role in making inner cities unpleasant places to be . |
| 20 | Referring to the Autumn Statement 's firm limits on public sector wage increases , its public spending ceilings and its priority for programmes that would help the economy , Mr Lamont said those measures had played a key role in putting Britain on course for recovery and would be continued . |
| 21 | Up to now the police have played a passive role with the hippies , preferring to keep a watchful eye on them . |
| 22 | The police have played a key role in the development of this configuration . |
| 23 | Although British statesmen had played a prominent part in bringing these organisations into being , the United Kingdom did not become a founder member and later approaches to join were either ineffective or rebuffed . |
| 24 | In so far as women had played a prominent part in Romanian politics , the precedents were not happy . |
| 25 | Since the late 1970s , all have experienced economic crises of varying severity in which international factors have played a significant part . |
| 26 | The world 's northern , or boreal , forests have played a key role in mitigating the greenhouse effect by soaking up huge quantities of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 27 | Housing subsidies in the past have sometimes favoured rural areas , but Shucksmith believes that the higher building costs have not been matched , and that ‘ it is clear that central government policies have played a major role in frustrating council housing in rural areas , both through the overall financial allocation to rural areas , and through the constraints imposed on individual developments … . ’ |
| 28 | Alan Walker argues that the social security policies have played a central role in puffing people on the margins of society , forcing them into retirement and then providing them with a pension which reduces many older people to economic dependency and even poverty . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that the very existence of the BDA and its various activities have played a vital part in fostering the deaf community 's identity and cohesion as a social group . |
| 30 | Statistical returns have played a vital role in the ability to present the activities of the service , nationally and locally in a simple understandable format . |