Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] role [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nobody in this band holds their role above the old minstrels , or the court fools who used to offer diversion and try to get a smile . |
| 3 | There are some whose function has stimulated less comment such as tweezers found in male graves ; if it were accepted that they were primarily depilatory we must consider their role in the alteration of the physical appearance of men and women as a cultural trait . |
| 4 | Before landing his role in the super-soap series , Nader was a model who made it into movies . |
| 5 | Baker , who described his role in the talks as attempting to impress upon the Iraqi government the determination of the 28-country coalition to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait , said that he had " heard nothing which showed any Iraqi flexibility whatever " . |
| 6 | She may be dressed in a different uniform , and therefore must explain her role to the patient . |
| 7 | The devaluation of sterling was accompanied by a grudging American agreement that Britain should be allowed to limit her European responsibilities in order to preserve her role at the centre of the Sterling Area . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This will be the first ever opportunity for editors of Christian magazines in the Middle East to meet to share their common concerns and examine their role in the Church and in society . |
| 10 | This will be the first ever opportunity for editors of Christian magazines in the Middle East to meet to share their common concerns and examine their role in the Church and in society . |
| 11 | She had seen the initial stage of the assessment process as an opportunity to enhance her role in the decision-making but saw it as restricting her power . |
| 12 | Each member of our union is an individual and deserves the recognition of their status as an equal partner in our great union , both for their own self-esteem and as means of demonstrating our respect and encouragement for that person to play their role in the affairs of the union . |
| 13 | The House of Commons select committee on trade and industry published a report on the House of Fraser acquisition on May 23 , 1990 , in which the DTI was criticized for failing to exercise its role in the regulation and supervision of business . |
| 14 | The aim is to enable the patient to understand the effects of his behaviour on other people and at the same time to help others understand their role in the behaviour . |
| 15 | Washington the role model is modest about his achievements , preferring perhaps to identify his role in the context of the greater need of setting an example for others to follow . |
| 16 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 17 | This is an exceedingly exciting time to be joining N C V O. I took over from at the beginning of September , nineteen ninety-one , with the reorganisation , thankfully fully , in place , and a clear strategic plan to fulfil our role as the voice of the voluntary sector . |
| 18 | I can pick and choose what I play live , which keeps my role in the band interesting . |
| 19 | All three parts rework or reference photographs from my own family album and question their role in the organisation of my self-image , my experiences and expectations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The marriage ceremony is not a process whereby a wife abdicates her role in the decision-making process , nor does it give husbands the right to unilateral decisions . |
| 24 | A dullish designer if one compares his work to the brio and subtleties of French Art Nouveau , he nonetheless had considerable influence as a theoretician early this century , and at the end of his life , wrote his memoirs in which he emphasised his role in the creation of the modern movement . |
| 25 | The Financial Times of Jan. 3 reported that Rabin had asserted his role as the Labour Party 's " chief playmaker " to the " evident discomfiture " of Shimon Peres . |
| 26 | Conversely , the British unions conceived their role within the factory as being basically one of continuing representation of workforce interests on narrow bargaining issues , pressing for objectives which were consciously and explicitly desired by the workers themselves . |
| 27 | Born out of the 1981 recession , and buoyed by the boom that followed , BITC , with 500 members , now has to reassess its role in the downswing and how it should direct the evolution of community involvement through the 1990s . |
| 28 | The Pharmacopoeia has played an increasingly important role in defining common criteria and control standards for medicinal substances and is now developing analytical methods for solvent and pesticide residues and strengthening its role in the standardisation of biologicals such as blood products and vaccines . |
| 29 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 30 | 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 . |