Example sentences of "play [art] leading role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ . |
| 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 | Vera Chirwa and her husband Orton are British-trained lawyers , who played a leading role in the struggle for Malawi 's independence in 1964 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He topped the poll for the shadow cabinet elections and played a leading role in the policy review process . |
| 17 | The RSSPCC played a leading role in the Orkney affair . |
| 18 | Although the socialist ILP played a leading role in agitations against the ‘ arms ring ’ , exposure of the close links between naval officers , Admiralty bureaucrats and their private industrial suppliers did not necessarily lead pacifists to draw socialist conclusions . |
| 19 | According to sources in the Federal police in Belgrade , Mr Svetozar Zecar , head of the Federal Commission , was approached by Philip Wilson , one of the share-holders in the treasure and son of the late Peter Wilson , the Chairman of Sotheby 's who played a leading role in its acquisition , and offered a deal : two Sevso vessels or a large lump sum of a percentage of the sale profits . |
| 20 | Aronson sees Sartre 's turn to the cause of resisting colonial oppression as an act of ‘ self-flagellation ’ and a product of politico-theoretical despair , but this passes over the historical and political context in which Sartre , and Les Temps modernes , played a leading role in the opposition to the Algerian war . |
| 21 | The Bolsheviks played a leading role both in the Moscow Soviet and in the December rising . |
| 22 | And Amelia McLean , a compositor who played a leading role in the women 's opposition in 1910 , said in a letter to the Evening News : " This is the first time the women have heard that the employers want to reserve monotypes for women . |
| 23 | Before long Gaveston was given the hitherto exclusively royal title of earl of Cornwall , an affront to the established councillors and nobility which he did nothing to palliate by his swaggering arrogance , especially at Edward 's coronation in which he played a leading role ; just as outrageous were the lands and revenues which went with titles , office and power . |
| 24 | The Mensheviks , among whom Martov played a leading role , rejected Lenin 's vision of the party on the grounds that it would institutionalize the gap between intelligentsia and workers , between party and class . |
| 25 | But a number of able scholars , most of them of liberal sympathies , were drawn into western academic life and played a leading role in guiding western research . |
| 26 | In Cuba , the avant-garde poet Rubén Martínez Villena played a leading role in events of the 1920s and 1930s , and Nicolás Guillén joined the Communist party in 1937 . |
| 27 | As a member of Walpole 's ‘ Committee of Taste ’ he played a leading role in the creation of the latter 's celebrated Gothic villa of Strawberry Hill . |
| 28 | In May 1640 he arbitrated a dispute over the parliamentary election for Chester ; and in July 1642 he played a leading role in organizing , and probably also drafting , the Cheshire ‘ Remonstrance ’ , a petition containing over 8,000 signatures , which called on the king and Parliament to settle their differences and avoid civil war . |
| 29 | He played a leading role in the transition of logical empiricism into ‘ ordinary language philosophy ’ ( typified by J. L. Austin and Gilbert Ryle , qq.v . ) . |
| 30 | Savile 's old Yorkshire enemy and rival , played a leading role in the House of Commons . |