Example sentences of "was play by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as academic achievements , McGill was noted for originating two major sports : ice hockey , in 1875 , largely from the rules written by J.G.A. Creighton ; and a species of rugby which was played by the citizens and soldiers ( for Montreal had remained a garrison town ) as well as the students . |
| 2 | A funnel surmounted the structure , which housed the trolley mast , and music was played by the conductor on equipment housed in the upper cabins . |
| 3 | The heroine was played by the Czech actress Anny Ondra ( 15 and 15a ) . |
| 4 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 5 | A major part was played by the international Red Cross movement , founded in 1863 , and whose role was formalised in the Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906–7 on the treatment of the wounded and the sick , and which also played a major role in the movement to impose humanitarian principles to the conduct of war . |
| 6 | Much earlier than that , however , an important part was played by the rise of news and current affairs . |
| 7 | A prominent part in this agitation was played by the Poor Law Guardians of Poplar through public statements by its leading Labour Guardians , George Lansbury and Will Crooks ( both prominent Labour politicians ) . |
| 8 | A significant role in the disorder that plagued the last decades of the Russian Empire was played by the so-called ‘ revolutionary intelligentsia ’ . |
| 9 | And throughout , the leading role was played by the Bolsheviks . |
| 10 | The future lay with Lully who , besides composing and dancing in ordinary ballets , collaborated with Moliere in a series of comedies-ballets which began in 1664 with the Le Mariage force and culminated with Le Bourgeois gentilhomme ( 1670 ) , in which Jourdain was played by the author and the Mufti by the composer . |
| 11 | This game of bluff was played by the Allies as well . |
| 12 | A cease-fire was finally agreed on 27 July , though in the absence of Soviet or Chinese documentation one can not be sure what part was played by the American threats of intensified military operations . |
| 13 | Leslie Phillips played a psychiatrist and the part of the headmaster was played by the popular radio comedian Ted Ray — making his only ‘ Carry On ’ picture ( he would have made more , but Associated British who had him under contract but had never used him , refused to allow him to make them ) . |