Example sentences of "[vb past] played no " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had played no small part in tranquillizing things at home and inspiring ‘ national will to victory ’ , and that was earnestly acknowledged by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Silviu Brucan , a leading member of the front , was reported as saying yesterday that the Communist Party was now finished and had played no part in the revolution — despite increasing complaints , particularly from students at the centre of the uprising , that most of those moving into power were party members . |
| 3 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 4 | Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham . |
| 5 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 6 | The Pensions Bill was guided through the Commons by Lloyd George the new Chancellor , although he had played no part in drafting the Bill . |
| 7 | Braimah of the northern territory which had played no part in the election . |
| 8 | One of the most striking social norms of all the hunting peoples was sharing of the spoils of the hunt among all members of the community , even if they had played no part in the hunt — a practice to which the Evenki term nimat is often applied . |
| 9 | Though Wyatt had been against the Seven , he had played no part in the murder of Minister Lwo . |
| 10 | After the strange indifference of the police investigators to the results of the polygraph examinations of Tuzcu and O'Neill in Frankfurt , and the even stranger attempt by the FBI to intimidate the ex-Army polygraph expert who had carried them out , Juval Aviv had played no further part in the preparation of Pan Am 's defence . |
| 11 | The disclosures cast serious doubt on State President F. W. de Klerk 's frequent assertions that the government had played no part in political violence . |