Example sentences of "played a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later , he played a central role in founding the Group of 89 , a faction made up of business and professional members of the BLCC who wanted to see a conservative model for Hong Kong 's political development . |
| 2 | Anthropology thus played a central role in the development of Marxism but it would be totally misleading to think of Marx and Engels as early anthropologists . |
| 3 | The first step in that direction was taken when the early Hebrew legislators forbade the practice of sacred prostitution , this ritual being fundamental to the non-Yahwistic cults and also one in which women played a central role ( Deut. |
| 4 | The blood of animals was also sacred , or seen as belonging particularly to the deity , and so its shedding played a central role in Jewish cult . |
| 5 | After the war Goldschmidt played a central role in the development of the French nuclear power programme and he has some complimentary , uncomplimentary and candid things to say about the British civil nuclear power programme . |
| 6 | Punch played a central role in the evolution of satirical humour and in creating opportunities for the cartoonist and the illustrator . |
| 7 | Traditional oral forms of communication , which played a central role in the maintenance of social and political order — ensuring continuity and reinforcing values and norms of behaviour — was gradually confronted by a quite different form based on the new technology of print and , generally , on a foreign language . |
| 8 | During the last years of peace Keir Hardie , the leader of British socialism , played a central role in committing the Socialist International to a policy of the general strike against war . |
| 9 | During a visit to the Galapagos in 1835 , Charles Darwin was fascinated by these birds , and they eventually played a central role in developing his theory of evolution through natural selection . |
| 10 | A free , honourable and vigorous press played a central role in exposing Nixon ; the Supreme Court and the Senate stood firm and forced his downfall . |
| 11 | This process of collecting and discussing information involved staff at all levels , although faculty representatives on the CCC played a central role . |
| 12 | Evolution was acceptable as long as it was presented as a purposeful process in which the human race played a central role as the goal towards which natural progress was aimed . |
| 13 | ( d. 1265 ) , keeper of the king 's works at Westminster , son of Odo the goldsmith , played a central role in King Henry III 's rebuilding of Westminster Abbey . |
| 14 | The final activities were another guided tour , back at Wharf Station , where Graham showed us round the museum that he played a central role in setting up . |
| 15 | The workers were pushed into a common consciousness not only by this social polarisation but , in the cities at least , by a common style of life — in which the tavern ( ‘ the workman 's church' as a bourgeois liberal called it ) played a central role — and by a common style of thought . |
| 16 | We have already seen how the endogeneity of inflationary expectations played a central role in Friedman 's critique of the Phillips curve . |
| 17 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |
| 18 | And journeys always played a central role in his imagination . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend pointed out , Labour played a disreputable role in relation to trusts . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Colin , played by Michael Cashman in BBC1 's ‘ EastEnders ’ , played a similar role , providing a peg on which to hang issues of sexuality . |
| 21 | In the Low Country headmen often played a similar role . |
| 22 | As in the 1950s , when he played a similar role in the emergence of CND , he was primarily interested in a committee of notables lobbying the powerful , and had no intention of starting a mass movement . |
| 23 | In Britain , the biologist and reformer Patrick Geddes ( 1854–1932 ) played a similar role , calling for conservation of the countryside and a better environment in the cities . |
| 24 | In 1885 a Plumage League was founded in Britain to protest against the trade , while the Audubon Society played a similar role in the United States . |
| 25 | Among middle-class women , early marriage played a similar role in increasing risk of depression . |
| 26 | Public sector workers played a similar role in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Although representatives of the Prussian ruling class they played a necessary role in the development of the national aspirations of the people which was to lead to our new Germany … . ’ |
| 28 | I wish to add a personal word on a subject related to recent events , in which I played a personal role . |
| 29 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 30 | Certainly there is no doubt of the strength of Catherine 's desire for a good press in Western Europe and of her sensitivity to criticism of any kind : vanity and amour propre played a greater role in her policies than in those of any other ruler of the period . |