Example sentences of "[vb base] play [art] role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unlikely choice , many would have thought , was comedian Peter Glaze to play the role of the evil City Administrator . |
| 2 | In both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease , immunological mechanisms seem to play a role in either perpetuating or increasing the inflammatory response . |
| 3 | Sir John , I thought , was one of those men who like to play the role of the bluff , hale soldier . |
| 4 | While the chances of a woman developing rheumatoid arthritis after a delivery are small , the researchers have nevertheless provided new evidence that hormones do play a role in some cases of the disease . |
| 5 | The larger eddies , which do play a role in the generation of the Reynolds stress , must be more characteristic of the particular flow , since the Reynolds stress distribution necessarily varies from flow to flow . |
| 6 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 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 | Moreover , geopolitics have played a role in duplicating lines to land-locked deposits . |
| 9 | Reference has been made to economic and monetary union , which have played a role in the discussions . |
| 10 | Alcoholic beverages have played a role in many societies for over 7000 years — before the existence of written history . |
| 11 | The company 's two main unions , the Communications Workers of America ( CWA ) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ( IBEW ) , have played no role in the worker committees , though , taken together , both unions represent 85% of the hourly paid staff . |