Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord MacLean told MacIver , who drove the lorry after the robbery : ‘ You may not have occupied a principal role , but you played an essential one . |
| 2 | The Council may have played a major role in planning the transfer of the Visigoths to Aquitaine . |
| 3 | Some well-informed people suggest that the Americans may have played a discreet role in last week 's cabinet reshuffle . |
| 4 | It is a fair bet that at the conclusion of this year 's Masters , the 18th will again have played a decisive role in the outcome . |
| 5 | Increase in annual temperature range on the continents as a consequence of regression of epicontinental seas might well have played a significant role in the mass extinctions of large reptiles at the end of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic . |