Example sentences of "so [adj] [art] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only just to give Mr Heseltine , who played so prominent a role in the Tory victory , the job he so much wanted as Industry Secretary . |
| 2 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 3 | Proper authorization was essential and was provided by the seals which played so large a role in medieval government . |
| 4 | After basic religious toleration was conceded in 1689 , the dissenters turned their back once and for all on Anglicanism and went on to develop the distinctive spirituality which was to play so dynamic a role in the revolutionary social and economic changes of the next century . |
| 5 | Thus Poland , which had played so important a role in the debates on the national question , slipped into independence by courtesy of German arms without playing any role in a revolution in Germany or in Russia . |
| 6 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 7 | Fraser , impatient at so inactive a role , persuaded the Regent to relieve him and appoint a replacement Deputy Warden , and now rode on with the main cavalry host . |
| 8 | Columbine is rarely seen in so tragic a role . |
| 9 | But even here the Designer had carefully thought out its use in subsequent stories when , perhaps , the ship would not play so vital a role . |