Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] role as [art] " 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 | Other responses that seemed sympathetic to Mannheim 's perspective doubted its role as a foundation for sociological work . |
| 3 | Osiris retained his role as a fertility god but soon added other elements to his character . |
| 4 | From January 1983 he became an active member of the library committee but described his role as an " executive " or " coordinator " of what the committee decided as policy . |
| 5 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 6 | The starting point in understanding your role as a care assistant must be the three principles of care . |
| 7 | I read to him sentences from the Report such as : ‘ Schools have the clear responsibility to ensure that all children have full access to Standard English , given its role as an international language used throughout the world and essential for many purposes . ’ |
| 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 | He was already on the way to establishing his role as a leading spokesman for the ‘ sixties generation ’ — a generation that was forced to handle change as never before , as Bernard Levin commented , in ‘ The Pendulum Years ’ : |
| 10 | In general lay members did not see their role as an enabling one and do not play a particularly active role in hearings . |
| 11 | During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power . |
| 12 | Although Egypt offered its full support to Iraq , it still managed to assert its role as a regional moderator and as the main link between the Arab states , Israel and the West ; thus , during a visit to Baghdad on April 7 , Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak widened the debate by calling for the mass elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . |
| 13 | WHOOPI GOLDBERG , queen of the movie-stealing cameos , is to reprise her role as a medium for Ghost II . |
| 14 | Under a regime of permanent full employment , ‘ the sack ’ would cease to play its role as a disciplinary measure … ‘ discipline in the factories ’ and ‘ political stability ’ are more appreciated by business leaders than profits . |
| 15 | If the clinical teacher sees her role as a trainer developing competence then objectives can be applied ; but if she sees herself as providing something more than this , perhaps aiding and encouraging the development of the nurse as an autonomous person within the context of nursing , then she will go beyond the stage where objectives can be applied . |
| 16 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 17 | On one such occasion , when Greg was sixteen , he suddenly asked me , ‘ Mum , how do you see your role as a parent ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So bad , the woman had to abandon her role as a make-believe victim and return to the top . |
| 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 | Cherine Woolwich describes how she established and developed her role as an emergency nurse practitioner at St Mary 's Hospital , London |
| 24 | ‘ And he would n't be the first man to become deeply jealous when he sees another man apparently usurping his role as a father . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |