Example sentences of "played [art] leading [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 2 | Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today . |
| 3 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Recipient countries have , however , generally played the leading role in the process of allocating contracts between suppliers , whether of equipment , contracting services or consultancy services . |
| 5 | Considering he was joining an honour roll that included his big brother John , it was somehow fitting that Patrick played the leading role in the two-hour 48-minute finale to the grand prix circuit which saw the younger McEnroe and Jim Grabb dismiss the more experienced Anders Jarryd and John Fitzgerald 7-5 , 7-6 , 5-7 , 6-3 . |
| 6 | They also object on the grounds that , while Sotheby 's disclaims any ownership interest in the treasure and was merely the agent for Lord Northampton , they are by no means convinced that this is the case , especially as it has come to light during the discovery process that the former chairman of Sotheby 's , the late Peter Wilson , played the leading role in the treasure 's acquisition and had a share in its value , inherited by his sons , Thomas and Philip . |
| 7 | Who played the leading role in ‘ A Man Called Horse ’ ? 08 . |
| 8 | He was a founder member and later Chairman of the Scottish Council of the R Y A , played the leading role in the nineteen ninety one R Y A You World Youth Champions and is a past President of the then National Flying Fifteen Owners ' Association . |
| 9 | While Wyllie himself played the leading role in his side 's narrow victory , he was given excellent support by the equally experienced second-row pair , Ian Burnside and Ben Gordon , who won the touchline battle , and Finlay Calder , playing possibly his last first XV game for the club . |
| 10 | By the time he was 16 , The Montreal Herald was reporting the great success of his four-act play Esther , which he had written and produced ( and played a leading part in ) — shades here of his precocious grandson ! |
| 11 | East Germany was the first country in which fears over the state of the environment played a leading part in the overthrow of a system of government . |
| 12 | Rosa , her older sister , is the wife of a pastor who played a leading part in the democracy movement in East Berlin . |
| 13 | Some of the houses in this neighbourhood belonged to industrial barons , and even a few of the aristocrats played a leading part as entrepreneurs . |
| 14 | Robert played a leading part in expelling the English from Scotland and in procuring the return of David II to the throne . |
| 15 | Edgar Wilkinson , the BEA 's Commercial Manager and Ronald Edwards , an LSE economist , played a leading part in the deliberations of the committee , which heard some powerful evidence of the damage done at the peak , particularly by the space heating load , and of the need for restriction by an increased winter price or other means . |
| 16 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 17 | They played a leading part in the organization of the war after 1369 ; they both had considerable experience of Breton affairs , and their influence at court may be one reason for the important position occupied by Brittany in English strategy from 1372 to 1375 . |
| 18 | The internationalism of the leaders and cadres of national liberation movements in the Third World is more obvious where such movements played a leading part in the liberation of their countries than where countries were decolonised from above , for the post-independence breakdown of what previously operated , as a united movement of ‘ the people ’ is more dramatic . |
| 19 | John played a leading part in the DTI 's support for the IT industry and research base for many years , and I know that he will be greatly missed by all involved . |
| 20 | In that upheaval Peter played a leading part . |
| 21 | In London , Helen Taylor played a leading part in the fight to abolish school fees and provide school meals , and there is also some evidence that women school-board members took an interest in the pay and conditions of women teachers . |
| 22 | He has a strong personal conviction about the power of the printed word and in April 1992 played a leading part in the International Communication Forum at Le Touquet . |
| 23 | From nineteen seventy three to nineteen ninety two he was Chairman of the Charities Committee of the Yacht Clubs of Weymouth and played a leading part in organizing forty eight championships including fourteen R Y A Weymouth olympic weeks as well as twelve world and European championships . |
| 24 | Vera Chirwa and her husband Orton are British-trained lawyers , who played a leading role in the struggle for Malawi 's independence in 1964 . |
| 25 | Alliance compounded its problems by allowing its production policies to be influenced by a consultative literary committee , on which theatrical big-wigs such as Arthur Wing Pinero played a leading role . |
| 26 | Evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial . |
| 27 | DETAILED evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial in Yugoslavia , Greece , and Ethiopia at the end of the second world war . |
| 28 | The NPC ended its annual session yesterday by passing all laws and reports put before it , but dissent was far greater than it has been in the years following the 1989 crackdown in Peking , which Li played a leading role in . |
| 29 | Edward Cody of the AP and I once came to the conclusion that in every interview we conducted in Lebanon , a special chair should be set aside for The Plot — since The Plot invariably played a leading role in all discussions we ever had with politicians , diplomats or gunmen . |
| 30 | He topped the poll for the shadow cabinet elections and played a leading role in the policy review process . |