Example sentences of "[vb base] play a part in " in BNC.

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1 You obviously have an interest in the world about you and want to play a part in preserving it .
2 Previous experience of using visually stimulating material , encouragement to do so , interest in the task in hand , curiosity and enjoyment seem to play a part in the way that some pupils use even low levels of vision to help them to find out the things they are interested in .
3 Neither cyclo-oxygenase nor lipoxygenase seem to play a part in sources for the chemiluminescence .
4 Reactive oxygen species seem to play a part in inflammation and tissue injury in a number of diseases and have recently been implicated in the inflammation and tissue injury in the gastrointestinal tract .
5 I was also coauthor of the Black report on ‘ Inequalities of health ’ and continue to play a part in debates on that subject .
6 Despite the ambiguity of the statistical debate , it is clear that advertisers do play a part in the lives of our media .
7 Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those .
8 ‘ Ideas ’ have played a part in philosophy at least as far back as Plato , for whom they had a reality of their own quite apart from any relation they might have to our minds .
9 It is wholly inappropriate and a slur on parents ' intelligence to imply , as your correspondent does , that coercion and possibly intimidation have played a part in achieving the present levels of support for change .
10 While the reform of the welfare state has not attracted the same consistent media attention as other issues , the changes made in the scope of welfare provision since 1979 nevertheless amount to a mini-revolution , and have played a part in creating an underclass .
11 In general , roses have played a part in everyday life from the time of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese , and have always been loved and treated with veneration , and repeatedly illustrated in herbals and paintings , they were adopted as the national flower in Britain from the Middle Ages .
12 He could not admit to his own heart that Surere was involved with the girls ' killings ; though perhaps — the dark thought was there — Huy was afraid to admit such a thing was possible , as he would then , however innocently , have played a part in their deaths .
13 Core skills have played a part in all recent major developments in Scottish education and training , although not necessarily under that name .
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