Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] played a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have fallen in love for stranger reasons , but music has obviously played a central role in their marriage . |
| 2 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 3 | The Earth 's atmosphere has not played a similar role , because of the comparatively low rate of heat transport from the interior , via solid phase convection . |
| 4 | The state has always played a critical role in fostering the development of a capitalist economy ( Baran and Sweezy , 1966 ) . |
| 5 | Luck has always played a key role in doing the pools , but half the fun was thinking that skill mattered . |
| 6 | Suicide has always played a big role in Greenland . |
| 7 | In the UK , franchising has always played a significant role , although relations between franchisor and franchisee have not always been smooth , according to the report . |
| 8 | The Gas Turbine division has also played a leading role in this area and is pioneering the concept of total maintenance [ health care ] contracts for critical power packs both on and offshore . |
| 9 | Generally , the law has traditionally played a minimal role in controlling the use of sanctions at school . |
| 10 | Here , Dr Schonfield has again played a prominent role with a series of works addressed to the background of the New Testament . |
| 11 | The SDP leader Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson had declared that his party could not continue to participate in the previous PP-SDP-PA centre-left coalition arrangement without a clear consensus on two key policy issues : Iceland 's position in EFTA negotiations with the European Communities ( EC ) , in which he had personally played a leading role as Foreign Minister , and a proposed US$1,000 million project to build a new aluminium smelting plant south of Reykjavik . |
| 12 | After 1534 , Henry began to issue ecclesiastical injunctions on his own authority ; in 1535 his secretary of state , Thomas Cromwell , who had already played a major role in engineering the break with Rome , was appointed vicegerent or vicar-general of the church . |
| 13 | It concluded that Gratz had also played a key role in the affair and had intervened to have Proksch released from preventive detention in 1985 . |
| 14 | Similarly the FDP campaign was dominated by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the longstanding Foreign Minister who had also played a leading role in the unification process , and FDP posters urged the electorate to " Vote for the Germany the world trusts ! " . |
| 15 | Stanley , Signor , Lidgard & Karr ( 1981 ) present some cogent criticism of the work of Raup and his associates and establish that chance factors have not played a dominant role in producing dramatic changes in diversity . |
| 16 | The armed forces have traditionally played a prominent role in Thai politics . |
| 17 | As Lewis and Piachaud point out in their chapter here , unmarried women have traditionally played a significant role in the care of elderly parents and other relatives and the same appears to be true today . |
| 18 | State agencies have also played a formative role in limiting the damage recessions impose on large firms . |
| 19 | As Barker and McGregor point out , however , land-use practices have also played a significant role in landscape change since colonial times when deforestation began . |
| 20 | Here and elsewhere , however , the barriers to the outward movement of the lower paid and ethnic minorities have also played a significant role , leading to further social polarization not just between inner city and suburb but also between different parts of inner city areas . |
| 21 | Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization . |
| 22 | One of the successful aspects of the work of the Enterprise Centre has been to forge new and strong links between staff from different faculties and departments and to bring some departments that have previously played a peripheral role into the mainstream of the University 's activities . |
| 23 | Modernization Commissions , the basic planning units , brought together civil servants and managers ( the trade unionists involved have never played a major role ) to thrash out targets for output and investment . |