Example sentences of "[verb] a leading [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Helm profiles a leading group |
| 2 | Because of the ease of trading in futures , index futures may reflect new information faster than spot markets ( that is , they provide a leading indicator of share price movements ) . |
| 3 | Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory |
| 4 | When the time came to launch a leading brand of canned pork and beans in the Canadian market , the advertising company decided to continue the campaign that had worked successfully in other English-speaking areas , and retained the name Big John 's . |
| 5 | Er , this company has a leading position , er , in the fast expanding field of video training products for the corporate market and that 's an area which Longman has identified , er , as a new area for expansion . |
| 6 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a leading part in Birmingham 's cultural renaissance . |
| 7 | And if PostScript has a leading light , it is Pierre Bézier , a French mathematician . |
| 8 | Chief executive Pierre Bonelli said that as a result , the company was able to concentrate on vertical markets , where it holds a leading position , such as defence . |
| 9 | Very well , no-one would expect a leading article in a newspaper — even a newspaper like this one which has , we hope , a reputation for behaving responsibly — to applaud plans to curb the freedom of the press . |
| 10 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 11 | As the Egyptian representative to the PCC told a leading representative of the Palestinian refugees at that time , Egypt was more interested in its own problems in the Sudan , in Suez , and in the receipt of American aid and arms . |
| 12 | Someone who — has accepted a leading chair at one of the universities expects to do a job and does not lightly change after less than two years . |
| 13 | Smart 's friends were not all alienated by his misfortune , because on 26 January 1759 David Garrick presented a successful benefit for him , acting a leading part himself , at Drury Lane , and Newbery and Carnan published one of the plays performed , also for Smart 's benefit . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rosa , her older sister , is the wife of a pastor who played a leading part in the democracy movement in East Berlin . |
| 17 | Some of the houses in this neighbourhood belonged to industrial barons , and even a few of the aristocrats played a leading part as entrepreneurs . |
| 18 | Robert played a leading part in expelling the English from Scotland and in procuring the return of David II to the throne . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In that upheaval Peter played a leading part . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Vera Chirwa and her husband Orton are British-trained lawyers , who played a leading role in the struggle for Malawi 's independence in 1964 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial . |