Example sentences of "he play a [adj] role in " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He played a crucial role in the organization of rubber tappers to defend their livelihood in the Amazon against ranchers , timber merchants , land speculators and large internationally financed development projects . |
| 4 | Coleman claimed that his greatest contribution to the young veterinary profession was that he played a major role in securing that from 1796 appointments as veterinary surgeons ( a term used by the Standing Board of General Officers ) in the cavalry , and eventually ( 1805 ) in the artillery , were by commission rather than by warrant . |
| 5 | He played a major role in the organization of the royal expedition to Boulogne of that year , and was knighted at the end of the campaign . |
| 6 | Following World War I , he played a major role in the gramophone industry as chairman of the Edison Phonograph Company and the Columbia Graphaphone Company . |
| 7 | He played a major role in the talks between the government and Solidarity leaders which in April 1989 paved the way for the dismantling of the communist regime . |
| 8 | During the Russo-Japanese war , out of sight , he played a key role in raising huge sums to finance Japan 's war effort . |
| 9 | And then midway through the second-half he played a key role in Brian Strain 's vital winner . |
| 10 | First elected to Parliament in 1946 , Averoff later served in various ministerial capacities most notably as Foreign Minister in 1956-63 , when he played a key role in reaching agreement on Cyprus 's independence in 1960 . |
| 11 | He played a key role in Clinton 's transitionary team following the 1992 presidential election victory . |
| 12 | However , he managed to become chairman of the cross-party Public Accounts Committee as well as of the 1922 committee of back-benchers from which position he played a key role in Heath 's downfall as part of the Milk Street gang ( named after the street of his very minor merchant bank , Keyser Ullmann ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He played a vital role in setting up the Australian National Trust , and was president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . |
| 15 | He sought a monopoly of the coal trade , with its lucrative market in Dublin , and to this end he played a vital role in developing the harbour facilities in Whitehaven . |
| 16 | Yet later he played a vital role in the famous win on American soil ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ) . |
| 20 | He played a leading role in the $5m deal with Morrow that gave his novel Whirlwind a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the recipient of the highest ever advance for a single work of fiction . |
| 21 | He played a leading role in the review of the University of Wales ' management . |
| 22 | As managing partner of KMG Thomson McLintock , he played a leading role in the pre-merger discussions that led to the formation of KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock . |
| 23 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 24 | Less than four years later he played a significant role in Vietnam 's ousting of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia . |
| 25 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |