Example sentences of "[pron] role as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 2 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 3 | General practitioners will be concerned that purchasing pressures will disturb the doctor-patient relationship , and doctors ' perception of their role as the patient 's friend and ally . |
| 4 | The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency . |
| 5 | Instead they are destined to become ‘ enabling authorities ’ , purchasing and managing the services provided by other statutory , voluntary and private sector agencies and supporting informal carers in their role as the primary care-givers : |
| 6 | In its role as the chief purveyor of propaganda and agitation , the press had shifted its accent at the start of NEP . |
| 7 | Having wooed an impressive proportion of these , having gained confidence from scrutinising its viewing figures , and having enjoyed , thanks partly to the contortions at TV-am , a respite from its role as the medic 's whipping boy , Channel 4 appears resolved to becoming the network with a difference , not least in its approach to holiday periods . |
| 8 | ‘ The BBC must therefore have a clear vision if it is to retain its role as the cornerstone of British broadcasting and continue to command respect and admiration in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 9 | Critics of this approach , while often accepting the usefulness of the Italian model in relation to Spain , have taken as their starting point the varied character of the Italian Fascist movement , its role as the militant defender of property and destroyer of the left , and the essential , rather than the external , characteristics of the Italian Fascist regime . |
| 10 | AMNESTY International has much to do in the '90s to maintain its role as the world 's leading human rights movement , Peter Benenson , the organisation 's founder , told the annual Amnesty International Youth Conference last year . |
| 11 | The museum has two objectives now : to display costumes from its collection of 50,000 objects throughout the year ; and to reclaim its role as the preeminent institution of costume scholarship . |
| 12 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 13 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 14 | They exercised power in the name of the emperor , and the imperial family maintained its nominal supremacy and its role as the nation 's highest religious authority . |
| 15 | It owed its rapid expansion to its role as the chief supply centre for the growing metropolis of Edo , above all as the locus of sale and distribution of the rice income of the daimyo and their retainers . |
| 16 | In that year the UK imported more manufactured goods than it exported ; it appeared to mark the end of its role as the workshop of the world . |
| 17 | Within services as well as manufacturing , the south is increasing its role as the ‘ core ’ of the space economy , through its concentration of corporate headquarters , R and D activities , availability of venture capital and so on . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That this part of the text was usually in the vernacular hints at its role as the most functional element , and care was often taken over its drafting . |
| 21 | I will offer you a few examples of what this means for the British Library , in particular in its role as the provider of sources for historical research . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that some workers see pragmatics as a running commentary on current linguistic methods and concerns , and its role as the juxtaposition of actual language usage with the highly idealized data on which much current theorizing is based . |
| 23 | At the same time , the rise of the Greens has robbed the National Front of its role as the main anti-establishment , protest party . |
| 24 | The BBC must therefore have a clear vision if it is to retain its role as the cornerstone of British broadcasting and continue to command respect and admiration in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 25 | Sylvia Miles , fresh from her role as the bleach-blonde prostitute in Midnight Cowboy flashed in wearing a dazzling chrome catsuit . |
| 26 | Sue , who is married and lives in Hertfordshire , says she finds it diffi cult to escape from her role as the watchdog in the nation 's High Street . |
| 27 | ACTRESS Jean Marsh is not flattered by a description of the rose she had named after her for her role as the maid , Rose , in Upstairs Downstairs . |
| 28 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , in Coronation Street Catherine Cusack is presently giving her role as the nanny from hell some considerable welly , using it as a showcase for what promises to be her considerable talent . |
| 30 | MARTI Caine is to go ahead with plans for her role as the Red Queen in Snow White at Cardiff 's New Theatre — even if cancer strikes her again . |