Example sentences of "the role [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A in role , B out of role , focusing the children on aspects of the role , constructing the role with the children .
2 Edward said he could not fulfil the role without the support of the woman he loved .
3 Even Ian Paisley 's free presbyterians , who have communities in County Cavan and Dublin , are centrally organized , though this may reflect the practical situation in Ireland and the role of the ‘ big man ’ himself within the church he founded .
4 De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) .
5 One thing is for certain — the role of the independent producer is secured .
6 But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ .
7 Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need for the Government to clarify the role of the health service in providing community care .
8 One thing is certain : further changes in the 1990s will reflect the role of the railway as a business out there in a hard , competitive world .
9 The decade ended with the railway hotels not merely privatised but in many cases under second and third owners , generally poorer in standard and distinctly without the nation having benefited ( since they ran at a profit anyway ) , with Travellers-Fare privatised and healthier ( both profitwise and in what they served ) , and with InterCity rethinking the role of the restaurant car and with many chefs still preparing meals on board .
10 When programming in assembler , the role of the simulator , copying operation of the DSP chip , can be quite invaluable especially if testing performance of numerical operations .
11 However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church .
12 And the contempt and disinterest with which the corporate sector has greeted the recent spate of accountancy firm mergers is testimony to how insignificant the role of the auditor has become .
13 He used ceremonial occasions to launch scathing attacks on conservatives and took on the role of the spokesman of all Hungarians , inside and outside the country .
14 Mr Lapointe says CITES needs at least $4m ( £2.4m ) to enlarge the role of the Convention and to bring in more money to support its policing work .
15 This disturbing fact passes mostly unremarked , partly because the repertory is often unfamiliar , but partly , too , because the role of the conductor in pre-nineteenth-century music can be a source of embarrassment .
16 But in what the Law Society also interpreted yesterday as a clear shift in emphasis from the English proposals , the paper makes it clear that the role of the Lord President would be no different from the one he currently exercises when approving training and professional rules .
17 The paper also reports on the role of the police , talks to people who make a living out of trivia question machines and has an exclusive interview with Lenny Henry , in which he reveals his top jokes .
18 Even senior officers admit that to call this neighbourhood policing is a misnomer ( FN 15/5/87 , p. 2 ) , but , however dangerous and selfdefeating they appear , neighbourhood patrols are seen by police management as an essential and necessary feature of the role of the police in Catholic areas .
19 The book assumes the role of the most patient instructor .
20 The arts continued to flourish , amidst growing argument over the role of the Arts Council , the right balance to be struck between the metropolitan and the regional , and between private and public funding .
21 The emotion roused by the murder of a policeman in late 1985 during racial disturbances at Broadwater Farm , a dismal sixties high-rise housing estate in Tottenham , north London , confirmed much public endorsement of the role of the police in a public-order capacity .
22 THE ROLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL ’ Address to ‘ The Challenge of Crime ’ , Police Federation Seminar , Cambridge , April 1976
23 Before analysing the role of the A&R department in both record and music publishing companies , it would make sense to look at the other areas which create a fully operational major record company : manufacturing and distribution , recording studios , marketing and promotion , sales , professional advisers , and the international division .
24 He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk .
25 Benita Parry argues that the most influential recent analysis of colonialist discourse encounters certain problems inseparable from its anti-essentialism and anti-humanism ; in particular its tendency has been to obscure ‘ the role of the native as historical subject and combatant , possessor of an-other knowledge and producer of alternative traditions , , and to ‘ limit native resistance to devices circumventing and interrogating colonial authority ’ ( Parry , ‘ Problems ’ , 34 ) .
26 The policy of increasing the role of the market sector has extended to contracting out services in the National Health Service and local government and the removal of the monopoly powers of solicitors ( over house sale conveyancing ) , or barristers appearing in the high court , opticians , and financial services via Big Bang in 1986 .
27 It is doubtful that she has transformed the role of the Prime Minister in British politics .
28 These two groups agree on rejecting many economic policy prescriptions of the ‘ wets ’ but disagree on the role of the state .
29 This article analyses the constitutional aspects behind the formation of the first and second National Governments , examining in particular the role of the king in the formation of the two governments — a role which , as will be seen , was rather more important than is usually thought .
30 In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one .
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