Example sentences of "[verb] take a [adj] part in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russia under Peter the Great and Catherine began to take a major part in the affairs of Europe . |
| 2 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 3 | The Yang brothers had taken a prominent part in quelling the " turmoil " in mid-1989 and presided over a massive programme of political education within the army . |
| 4 | While it was aware of the threat of a general strike of seamen in May 1911 , it saw little support for this outside the United Kingdom and the United States , where Andrew Furuseth , president of the International Seamen 's Union and a close ally of Wilson 's , had taken a leading part in the agitation for an international dispute . |
| 5 | Hugh Dalton , returned to parliament in 1935 , had taken a leading part in reconciling the Party to rearmament and in this he was backed by Bevin , Citrine and the TUC . |
| 6 | His decision was taken , and the orders sent out for the triple muster , yet even after news from the northern border confirmed only too clearly that Scotland intended to take a full part in the harrying of his realm , he was slow to move . |