Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] role as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case the cancer sufferer seemed to accept their role as victim , to be acquiescent and quite unable to take action . |
| 2 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 3 | Other responses that seemed sympathetic to Mannheim 's perspective doubted its role as a foundation for sociological work . |
| 4 | In section 4.2.2 we concentrate on their role as buyers and holders of marketable securities ; in section 4.2.3 we shall consider their role as suppliers of ‘ credit ’ as opposed to ‘ money ’ and therefore their impact on velocity and money supply . |
| 5 | Osiris retained his role as a fertility god but soon added other elements to his character . |
| 6 | From January 1983 he became an active member of the library committee but described his role as an " executive " or " coordinator " of what the committee decided as policy . |
| 7 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 8 | The starting point in understanding your role as a care assistant must be the three principles of care . |
| 9 | If Constance expected her role as Lydia back , she did not get it . |
| 10 | I read to him sentences from the Report such as : ‘ Schools have the clear responsibility to ensure that all children have full access to Standard English , given its role as an international language used throughout the world and essential for many purposes . ’ |
| 11 | This experience forms an important basis of their knowledge of other countries which can influence their role as mediators of other cultures in teaching and other professions . |
| 12 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 13 | In this way , the organizational climate interacts with the men 's personal qualities to predispose the majority of them to define their role as one of community service . |
| 14 | By his death , the membership had doubled , the MCC was developing its role as the judicious lawgiver of the game , and there were many more cleaner-cut fixtures , with schools and the universities , for example . |
| 15 | The then Director General of World Health Organisation , Dr. H. Mahler in 1985 encouraged nurses to ‘ lead the way ’ in Health for All and envisaged nurses becoming resources for people rather than for physicians , developing their role as health promoters . |
| 16 | He was already on the way to establishing his role as a leading spokesman for the ‘ sixties generation ’ — a generation that was forced to handle change as never before , as Bernard Levin commented , in ‘ The Pendulum Years ’ : |
| 17 | Mr Attlee , for example , saw his job as being ‘ to collect the voices of the Cabinet ’ and Mr Wilson compared his role as prime Minister at various times to a soccer ‘ midfield sweeper ’ , or the ‘ the conductor of the orchestra ’ . |
| 18 | Davies will be pushing ahead with his intention to move house to Wales during the close season to simplify his role as Wales 's coach . |
| 19 | Brian Rowe has relinquished his role as Eastern Counties Field Officer so that he can concentrate on developing the Salt Cellar as a joint churches enterprise in Sudbury . |
| 20 | Fathers do n't have the sole authority in the home and mothers do n't see their role as servants to men . |
| 21 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 22 | During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power . |
| 23 | Although Egypt offered its full support to Iraq , it still managed to assert its role as a regional moderator and as the main link between the Arab states , Israel and the West ; thus , during a visit to Baghdad on April 7 , Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak widened the debate by calling for the mass elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . |
| 24 | WHOOPI GOLDBERG , queen of the movie-stealing cameos , is to reprise her role as a medium for Ghost II . |
| 25 | This happens very quickly and the energy generated by the fusion can kick out the muon , releasing it to play its role as matchmaker again , acting as a ‘ catalyst ’ : hence ‘ muon catalysed fusion ’ was born . |
| 26 | Under a regime of permanent full employment , ‘ the sack ’ would cease to play its role as a disciplinary measure … ‘ discipline in the factories ’ and ‘ political stability ’ are more appreciated by business leaders than profits . |
| 27 | Members appeared to value their role as representatives of the community at large , just as much as their narrower role as parent or staff representative , or as a co-opted member serving a limited group of interests . |
| 28 | If the clinical teacher sees her role as a trainer developing competence then objectives can be applied ; but if she sees herself as providing something more than this , perhaps aiding and encouraging the development of the nurse as an autonomous person within the context of nursing , then she will go beyond the stage where objectives can be applied . |
| 29 | Then there was the paradox that the erstwhile Premier Line out of Euston steadily slipped down the speed and performance league as the High Speed Trains out of King 's Cross , St Pancras and Paddington proved ( for all the undoubted technical troubles ) that they could sustain their role as InterCity 's workaday tool . |
| 30 | Apart from finding time to fulfil his role as British director of the International Theatre Institute ( a UNESCO research and information organisation ) , write two novels and run the Land and City Families Trust , he is also vice-president of the National Children 's Home and chairman of its George Thomas Society , which specialises in caring for abused children . |