Example sentences of "of playing a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offwood 's religious activism gave him a widespread reputation as a leading layman in Amsterdam 's English religious community , and he was widely suspected of playing a key role in the production of many other Nonconformist religious tracts . |
| 2 | He had forgotten the pleasure of playing a major part in a good play in the West End . |
| 3 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 4 | Mr Patten , accused of playing a leading part in her downfall , has been taking her advice on how to deal with China over the 1997 hand-over of the colony . |
| 5 | Only small States , freed from the burden of playing a leading role in international affairs and often more homogeneous economically and socially than their more powerful neighbours , could afford to apply the political panaceas of the Enlightenment with some approach to thoroughness . |
| 6 | Instead of playing a leading role in the new monetary union , we shall be semi-detached from it — robbed of our full chance to shape its institutions , suffering economically because of the uncertainty , and condemned always to follow monetary union , never to lead it . |