Example sentences of "play [art] part [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice , however , that this does not mean that pension funds ( and indeed other NBFIs ) played no part in financing the public sector 's deficit . |
| 2 | In the early 1960s she played a part in saving Brownsea Island from development : the island is now owned by the National Trust , and the Dorset Trust for Nature Conservation manages part as a nature reserve Helen Brotherton is the current Chairman of the latter organisation and , as well as serving on the National Trust 's Council , Appointments Panel and Conservation Panel , she was Chairman of the Wessex Regional Committee for a number of years . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly these features are principally confined to the cities of the province , though we might expect some form of provision at those sites where water transport clearly played a part in moving bulky products like building stone or pottery ( p. 43 ) . |
| 4 | These books played a part in establishing a sense of historical continuity in the feminist movement , and they helped to rescue the constitutionalist women 's suffrage movement from the oblivion to which it was in danger of being consigned by the more flamboyant reputation of Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Many men played a part in building this system : leading ministers such as the confidence-rebuilding Walpole and the quietly reforming Henry Pelham , and beneath them the officials and clerks . |
| 6 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 7 | There is a challenge to be faced and the hon. Gentleman would make a more constructive contribution if he played a part in helping instead of trying to score cheap party political points when there is a genuine problem to be tackled . |
| 8 | It would , therefore , make sense if axons played a part in controlling the number of oligodendrocytes that develop in a myelinated tract . |
| 9 | Last night , the show received a gala screening in London , to honour all those who played a part in creating a television classic . |
| 10 | He also played a part in developing in England , even before the full force of the new historical criticism of the Bible had been felt there , an understanding of the authority of the Bible which did not rest simply on regarding it as the inspired and inerrant compendium from which the truths about God could be read off in literal and rationalist fashion . |
| 11 | Jamb and trumeau figures , tympanum scenes , archivolt groups , gargoyles and cresting , all played a part in relating the Bible story from Old and New Testaments , in rich , full , glorious sculptures . |
| 12 | The Boards ' own contracting services and the customer canvassing activities of their salesmen played a part in remedying this situation ; and in most new houses ‘ ring ’ mains , with a range of socket outlets and the new standard 13 amp fused plugs , became the norm . |
| 13 | They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind . |
| 14 | There is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that local Tory leaders played a part in inciting the unrest . |
| 15 | At the end of the War , around a half of British households still lacked a fixed bath with hot , running water , but electricity played a part in changing this ( whether as the only heat source or as summer immersion heating to complement water heating by the more common coal-fired back boilers ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | They were not supposed to play a part in managing them , but it soon became clear that they would do so . |
| 18 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 19 | Several different Ca 2+ -sensitive enzymes have been proposed to play a part in converting the probable induction signal , the entry of Ca 2+ through the NMDA channel , into persistent modifications of synaptic strength . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You obviously have an interest in the world about you and want to play a part in preserving it . |
| 22 | The European Community is about to embark on an ambitious programme of research within the field of biotechnology and genetic diversity , within which plant taxonomic information systems are to play a part by linking taxonomic , molecular and genetic databases . |
| 23 | It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers . |
| 24 | Solution then flows down the capillary and drains round the sides of the bulb back into D , but as no back pressure from the excess solution exists , the volume in D plays no part in determining the flow time t . |
| 25 | But as the drake plays no part in incubating the eggs , once the mother had wandered off , the eggs in the previous nests just went rotten . |
| 26 | Prohibition is only available to restrain illegal action and so it plays no part in correcting errors of law within jurisdiction , for which certiorari is the only remedy . |
| 27 | Porn , in other words , plays a part in conditioning our view of sexual roles and their relative importance . |
| 28 | Adult opinion has swung back and forward as to the value of one method or another and sheer fashion plays a part in determining feeding methods from one generation — or one decade — to the next . |
| 29 | The concept of technology , which plays a part in determining the appropriate model for the structure of authority in the organization , originally referred to levels of complexity in decision-making and manufacturing processes in industrial firms . |
| 30 | Each faculty plays a part in organizing courses and the programme ranges from Microelectronics , Civil Engineering and Building Technology to Yoga , Olympic Gymnastics and modern languages . |