Example sentences of "assumed the role " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think his mother was a very low-key housewife who depended very heavily on her husband to do everything — to write the bills and all that — a very dependent housewife , and David automatically assumed the role of his father in matters of domestic finance . |
| 2 | David Lloyd George had returned to the Liberal fold in 1923 and accepted his position as second in the Party to Asquith until he assumed the role of leader in October 1926 . |
| 3 | He said after his father , also called Roger , died in 1968 : ‘ Bill assumed the role of father , best friend , guardian and protector . ’ |
| 4 | Although the titular head of the conspiracy was Sanjurjo , exiled to Portugal following his failed rising in 1932 , it was Mola who in April assumed the role of ‘ Director ’ . |
| 5 | The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity . |
| 6 | Wood , who assumed the role of Cup standard-bearer when British No 1 Jo Durie pulled out with a knee injury , completed her contribution to the cause in the same emphatic fashion which had seen her demolish all four of her previous opponents this week . |
| 7 | Half jokingly , Clare assumed the role of teacher-guide , and fed Carolyn a steady supply of reading material on the Women 's Movement , ranging from Spare Rib magazine to the lives of suffragettes ; from The Female Eunuch to pamphlets on Consciousness Raising . |
| 8 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) , which in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution , was superseded by a National Assembly elected in December 1989 , when the CND assumed the role of an economic and social council . |
| 9 | The CND was superseded by a 93-member National Assembly elected in December 1989 [ see p. 37115 ] , and assumed the role of an economic and social council . |
| 10 | They soon assumed the role of Sunni champions against Shiite Persia , some of the time taking and retaking territory from one another . |
| 11 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |