11.   It looks better than it sounds, since the principal roles have been adequately but unexcitingly cast.

12.   Jake Heggie will write the score, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will sing the principal role, and Patrick Summers will conduct.

13.   Maher brings credibility to the principal role.

14.   Phyllis Pancella, Kevin Glavin and Gregory Cross are to sing the principal roles.

15.   Sejii Ozawa will conduct with Jose van Dam and Federica von Stade in the principal roles.

16.   Simms anticipates his principal role Sunday will be to review the performance of Drew Bledsoe and Browns quarterback Vinny Testaverde.

17.   Some parents of young performers really do understand that their principal role is to protect, rather than manage, their children.

18.   That Jennie Somogyi, also in the corps, should show such stunning breadth in principal roles is testimony to her enormous talent.

19.   The budget director, Joseph Lhota, plays a principal role in selecting the investment banking firms that earn tens of millions of dollars each year underwriting city bonds.

20.   The heaviest condemnation has come, instead, from the allied side, especially from the British, who played the principal role in carrying out the raid.