Example sentences of "[vb past] play a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she came to play a significant role in building his career . |
| 2 | But I had to get together in one room , the admirals , the intelligence people , the civil servants , all the people who 'd played a critical role in advising her . |
| 3 | Agricultural institutions also began to play a major role in applying biological theory to the problems of agriculture . |
| 4 | Now , for the first time , fixed though often not very stringent criteria for appointment began to play a significant role . |
| 5 | Although not a political party , MAAK aimed to play a significant role in Macedonian politics . |
| 6 | However , Gorbachev arrived at the plenum with his political standing newly boosted by the surprise announcement of the pact with Yeltsin and the other republican leaders [ see above ] , and this appeared to play a decisive role in the motion 's defeat . |
| 7 | In the fourteenth century the Fabian tactics of the chevauchée found greater favour on both sides , although there were notable exceptions when the heavy cavalry did play a major role . |
| 8 | He could and did play a decisive role . |
| 9 | If WEU had a role , it was to ensure the closest possible cooperation within NATO , and although it did play a limited role in the Saar settlement , it remained essentially a paper organisation . |
| 10 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 11 | Party alignments were further affected by the fact that the executive powers of the Crown were not significantly limited by the Glorious Revolution , which meant that the monarch continued to play a crucial role in shaping the pattern of politics after 1689 . |
| 12 | Both the WCG and the Women 's Labour League ( WLL ) continued to play a subordinate role to their ‘ parent ’ bodies . |
| 13 | Foreign investment continued to play a vital role in industry . |
| 14 | Ramos , 63 , a former chief of staff , had played a critical role both in enabling Aquino to take office in 1986 — by deposing her predecessor , Ferdinand Marcos — and in crushing the numerous military rebellions which had been launched against her administration . |
| 15 | Even though most of these reforms benefited from widespread political and public support , de Gaulle had played a critical role in bringing them to fruition . |
| 16 | Enrile , 66 , a former Defence Minister in the Aquino government , had played a crucial role in forcing President Marcos from office after his 1986 election defeat by Aquino [ see pp. 34297-302 ] . |
| 17 | In fact , unbeknown to them , Franco had played a crucial role in the failure of what turned out to be the last of these , in September 1936 , shortly before his elevation to the position of Head of State . |
| 18 | Government officials in Bonn said that the Soviet Union had played a key role in obtaining the agreement under which the thousands who had taken refuge in the Prague and Warsaw embassies were taken to the West at the weekend . |
| 19 | If socialist regimes have been reluctant to promote indigenous businessmen for this reason , most regimes have sought to curtail the role of the immigrant groups who had played a key role in the economy in the colonial period . |
| 20 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 21 | Before he retired in 1939 he had played a key role in the establishment of archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge . |
| 22 | Gen. Grachev , who had hitherto been Yeltsin 's deputy Defence Minister , had played a key role in the military opposition to the coup attempt in August 1991 [ see p. 38369 ] . |
| 23 | Among the latter was Imelda Marcos whom he had defeated in the election , and who , together with her husband President Ferdinand Marcos , had been forced from office in 1986 by a popular campaign in which Ramos had played a key role . |
| 24 | Together with former generals Rene Cruz and Honesto Isleta — who had played a key role in the Ramos election campaign — Almonte formed part of a group of former military officers who were widely believed to constitute the unofficial power centre of the new administration . |
| 25 | There then followed a frenzied round of negotiations during which it was believed that the Renamo leader was encouraged to sign the accord by the South African government and by Roland " Tiny " Rowland , the chief executive of the UK-based multinational Lonrho who had played a key role in the negotiations process [ see p. 39039 ] . |
| 26 | Referring to the Autumn Statement 's firm limits on public sector wage increases , its public spending ceilings and its priority for programmes that would help the economy , Mr Lamont said those measures had played a key role in putting Britain on course for recovery and would be continued . |
| 27 | The figure was Major Jaromir Nechansky who had been a commander of a paratroop regiment , and who had played a prominent role in the anti-Nazi uprising of 1945 . |
| 28 | John Blake , the advocate for the Town and Country Planning Association , which had played a prominent role at the Sizewell public inquiry , described the outcome as a ‘ foregone conclusion ’ and largely withdrew to the sidelines . |
| 29 | As Secretary of the Manchester branch of the Association of Teachers of German , he had played a prominent role in attracting the Goethe Institute to Manchester . |
| 30 | The prosecution alleged that Nelson had played a pivotal role in collecting information on individuals for the UDA and , at the same time , provided information about the UDA to military intelligence . |