Example sentences of "which [vb past] the role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 2 | De Vries soon lost interest and began to promote his ‘ mutation theory ’ , which stressed the role of saltations backed up by evidence that significant new characters were being produced in cultivated populations of the evening primrose . |
| 3 | She was quick to tell the world that Britain would not stand for anything which undermined the role of the queen , ‘ our beloved monarch ’ , or of our 700-year-old parliament . |
| 4 | An article in the April issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 98 ) , which discussed the role of private tutors , said that ‘ Students do not attend private institutions … to get a well-rounded education at a leisurely pace in an intellectually stimulating environment ; they go … to pass professional exams ’ . |
| 5 | The bourgeoisie as a class found enormous difficulty in combining getting and spending in a morally satisfactory manner , just as it failed to solve the equivalent material problem , how to secure a succession of equally dynamic and capable businessmen within the same family , a fact which increased the role of daughters , who could introduce new blood into the business complex . |
| 6 | Peter Berger , like Child and Goff , brought the social psychology of Mead to bear on the sociology of knowledge which emphasized the role of socialization in constituting individual identity ; ‘ psychological reality is an ongoing dialectical relationship with social structure ’ ( Berger 1970 : 374 ) . |