Example sentences of "played [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many have already played the traditional American housing game . |
| 2 | He 'd wept at the lack of talent , enjoying the attention of fifteen girls , and had played the hard-bitten foreign correspondent to their naivety . |
| 3 | The Gaullist RPR , which has played the leading historical role in helping German postwar political recovery — while opposing any military revival — has given the most unequivocal welcome to the idea that Germany could again be one nation . |
| 4 | Pakistan 's history has been punctuated by army coups and periods of martial law , but Gen Beg has played a major stablising role since the death of military president Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in August last year . |
| 5 | In British writing on retirement , however , and particularly in the writing of the radical ‘ structured dependency ’ school , supply-side factors — i.e. the desires of workers — have played a muted second fiddle to demand-side analysis . |
| 6 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 7 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 8 | There is , however , a minority of people coming to the notice of the police or courts in whom mental disorder has played a direct causal role in the offence . |
| 9 | Except for an unsuccessful trip to Baghdad before the allied air offensive , the UN 's secretary-general , Javier Perez de Cuellar , has played a minor diplomatic part . |