Example sentences of "[verb] played a role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , one wonders to what extent higher education in the UK has played a role in creating not a military-industrial , but financial-bureaucratic complex , dominated by the City and the Treasury , which works to the long-term disadvantage of not simply manufacturing but all forms of ‘ producer ’ industries . |
| 2 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 3 | Our plea to the Government is that they take a leaf out of their own book on the independent living fund , which was set up in haste and has played a role that it was never meant to play . |
| 4 | It is hoped that the work will contribute to policy : in establishing the different senses of environmental degradation that tourism may engender ; in considering whether tourism in fact has played a role in generating a heightened green awareness ; and in demonstrating the diverse kinds of environment that visitors expect even in an area of outstanding ‘ natural ’ beauty as in the Lake District . |
| 5 | A law enforcement source , speaking on condition of anonymity , said the person arrested had been linked to a rental van that investigators believed played a role in the bombing . |
| 6 | If this interpretation is correct , then evolutionism may have played a role in promoting a greater awareness of environmental fragility mainly through its Lamarckian rather than its Darwinian version . |
| 7 | He was later reputed to have played a role in the sea battle against the French off Sandwich in 1217 . |
| 8 | ‘ If this bank had played a role in the Hoylake/BAT battle it would have been top of the table , ’ said Philip Healey , editor of Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 9 | A parliamentary commission was set up on Nov. 13 to establish whether the police had played a role in the recent violence , which continued into the following week in the departments of Jinotega and Estelí where 15 people were killed . |
| 10 | At different times , and in different ways , the spatial divisions in economic organization have played a role in the national patterns of short-term fluctuations characteristic of the successive historical periods . |
| 11 | Moreover , geopolitics have played a role in duplicating lines to land-locked deposits . |
| 12 | Reference has been made to economic and monetary union , which have played a role in the discussions . |
| 13 | Alcoholic beverages have played a role in many societies for over 7000 years — before the existence of written history . |