Example sentences of "[verb] on a role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vertical loyalties within groups are taken to be the common base for the preservation of conformity as each individual knows their place and takes on a role consistent with that place . |
| 2 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 3 | He will take on a role as the head of a special unit in a hospital , and they will need to adopt the roles of experts whose help is needed in dealing with a particular patient whose case is causing him great concern . |
| 4 | The teacher can take on a role and introduce the information in role — as a messenger , as a member of the group , as an outsider , as someone giving orders . |
| 5 | The teacher will be taking on a role in the drama ; the class help to construct the role by using the teacher to create a still image of the role . |
| 6 | If the children are unused to the teacher taking on a role , however , they will want to push you into an authority role . |
| 7 | Always consider your own use of space when taking on a role . |
| 8 | The simplest way of starting is by intervening ( sometimes very briefly ) in play corner activities , taking on a role yourself in the children 's own play . |
| 9 | Taking on a role yourself and making that role the focus of the dramatic play enables you to support contributions as they 're made . |
| 10 | MICHAEL CRAWFORD , after playing for years a succession of wistful or gormless youths , last night took on a role in which he is required to age a quarter of a century . |
| 11 | ACTOR Roy Barraclough has taken on a role that 's right up his street — as Sherlock Holmes ' bumbling sidekick Watson . |
| 12 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 13 | Perhaps this is because they really are wanting or perhaps it is because the professional refuses to take on a role that the parents want but that he or she thinks unsuitable . |
| 14 | To make a speech , propose a toast , or write a manifesto is to take on a role and also to impose a role on the receivers . |
| 15 | From there it is a comparatively small step for you to take on a role in a piece of forum theatre , and then on to working in role with the whole class . |