Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a part in " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I do actually think that one considers they 're playing a part in the community . |
| 2 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 3 | Since reading aloud primes subsequent tachistoscopic recognition , the semantic system ( if it is indeed the locus of priming effects ) must be playing a part in tachistoscopic recognition ; from which it follows that prior use of that system in responding to a definition should also prime tachistoscopic recognition . |
| 4 | Another simple , but effective way is to say " I will be playing a part in this drama unless I 'm sitting in this chair . |
| 5 | ‘ Local authorities are playing a part in the promotion of co-operatives , in training schemes , in business advice centres , in the development of new technology and in support for individual firms through rent subsidies , grants and guarantees ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 , para. 288 ) . |
| 6 | The Principal and other staff of the College and then the Polytechnic were playing a part in committees of the CNAA : in 1971 , for example , the Academic Board congratulated one of its members on being invited to chair the CNAA Physics Board . |
| 7 | SOCIETY is more violent and suffering a moral vacuum — and television is playing a part in the change , two former Home Secretaries said yesterday . |
| 8 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , it could well have been the death of Archbishop Deusdedit in July 664 which rendered it essential for Oswiu , faced by the resurgence of Mercian power under Wulfhere , to establish his Catholic orthodoxy at Whitby if he was to play a part in finding a replacement for Deusdedit . |