Example sentences of "[be] to play a [adj] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 2 | More specifically it was in southern California , Reagan 's home territory , that political issues began to surface that were to play a major part in national politics in the years that followed . |
| 3 | Beyond the reach of the imperial censors , these publications were to play a significant part in the politics of the late 1850s . |
| 4 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 5 | Edmund of Lancaster , loyal to the end , was to play a major part in the Anglo-French diplomacy of the 1290s and died represent-ing his brother as lieutenant in Aquitaine at Bayonne on 5 June 1296 . |
| 6 | The Doctor , still mistaken for Pettulian , learns of a conspiracy against Nero in which the murdered lyre player was to play a major part . |
| 7 | There seemed little point in worrying ; the 12-string guitar work of Johnny Marr was to play a crucial part in the band 's make up . |
| 8 | Also serving his apprenticeship at Kerrs , in the railway wagon design team , was one Reg Mitchell — who in the coming years was to play a vital part in the Battle of Britain with his design of the legendary Supermarine Spitfire . |
| 9 | Technically , Sami was a confidential informant ( CI ) for Michael Pavlick , the DEA 's country attaché in Paris , but he was to play a vital part in Operation Goldenrod , a project preoccupying the NARCOG task force in Nicosia when Coleman arrived there , and which was to touch off the chain reaction of events that exploded over Lockerbie 21 months later . |
| 10 | But in September 1985 he joined forces with a man who was to play a large part in changing all that . |
| 11 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |