Example sentences of "have played a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council may have played a major role in planning the transfer of the Visigoths to Aquitaine . |
| 2 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 3 | Mr Major may have played a clever hand over Scotland in the run-up to the election , and one which brought unexpected success . |
| 4 | Some well-informed people suggest that the Americans may have played a discreet role in last week 's cabinet reshuffle . |
| 5 | Five thousand did so , and may have played a decisive part in turning a 5,060 Tory majority into a 580 Labour one . |
| 6 | It is a fair bet that at the conclusion of this year 's Masters , the 18th will again have played a decisive role in the outcome . |
| 7 | For if they vote with John Major next Wednesday , they will have played a crucial part in giving him a fresh mandate to break his election promises . ’ |
| 8 | Whether they eventually become brilliant scholars or not does n't really matter ; we will have played a significant part in creating a happy and confident individual — and what could be more important than that ? |
| 9 | Roger may have played a significant part in raising funds for the enterprise . |
| 10 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 11 | Increase in annual temperature range on the continents as a consequence of regression of epicontinental seas might well have played a significant role in the mass extinctions of large reptiles at the end of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic . |
| 12 | One early candidate , Henry Plough in 1517 , was simply appointed ; the opinion of the local priest — and , one assumes , of the local community — must have played a large part in most recommendations . |
| 13 | It is evident that the larger and more popular temples may have played a considerable part in the economy of any province . |
| 14 | The formation of the commercial basis of the kingdoms is not uniform and geography must have played an important part in the speed with which they evolved out of the less commercial exchanges of primitive valuables between earlier corporate descent groups and cohesive political units . |
| 15 | Another is that it has survived this far only because of a remarkable social cohesiveness ( in which traditional fatalistic passivity may have played an important part ) . |
| 16 | The illicit trade in cattle may have played an important role in providing an economic base for certain upwardly-mobile Goyigama families . |
| 17 | As such he must have played an important role in the bank 's transformation into a fully-fledged central bank in the 1920s . |