Example sentences of "[vb pp] a role in the " in BNC.

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1 The former Soviet leader has won a role in the latest Wim Wenders film Far Away So Close .
2 Nutritional improvement itself does not seem to have had a role in the effect of PEN in our study .
3 Mr Bonfield also disclosed that , following initial hostility , ICL had been given a role in the European Community 's advanced communications programme after reassuring critics that the technology flow with Fujitsu would be two-way .
4 ‘ 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 .
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 Many of the villages in close proximity to Sherwood Forest have also played a role in the legendary tales of our hero .
7 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 .
8 He was later reputed to have played a role in the sea battle against the French off Sandwich in 1217 .
9 Reference has been made to economic and monetary union , which have played a role in the discussions .
10 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 .
11 German and Swedish trade unions have taken a role in the initiation of flexibility in the workplace , in the promoting of job enrichment through the broadening of job classifications .
12 maintained a role in the validation of the courses leading to those awards .
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