1.  Congress, since the middle ages, since the nineteenth century, Swan Hunter has played the leading role in British maritime history.

2.  A JURY has ordered actress Kim Basinger to pay &6.1m (8.9m dollars) to an independent movie studio for reneging on a deal to play the leading role in one of its films.

3.  "While not aspiring to any "leading role", we are conscious of our responsibility to co-operate closely with all independent states," the declaration said.

4.  A JURY in Los Angeles yesterday ordered the actress Kim Basinger to pay Main Line Pictures $8.9 million, (around &6 million) finding that she reneged on a contract to play the leading role in the film Boxing Helena.

5.  Only small States, freed from the burden of playing a leading role in international affairs and often more homogeneous economically and socially than their more powerful neighbours, could afford to apply the political panaceas of the Enlightenment with some approach to thoroughness.

6.  The leading roles were danced by Roland Price who danced so well; Karen Donovan, Sherilyn Kennedy, and Yannick Stephant.

7.  After the interval we saw The Two Pigeons with Sandra Madgwick, Michael O'Hare, Anita Landa, and Chenca Williams in the leading roles.

8.  The latter should play a leading role in ensuring these statements are understood by governors and staff.

9.  The programme will promote a "peace culture" in which mass media systems should play a leading role.

10.  Despite political division, the churches unite in their membership of the Middle East Council of Churches, and continue to play a leading role in a part of the world whose institutions are most important.