Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] role [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both images ultimately deny the humanity of their subjects by maintaining the deterministic role of these predispositions , thereby reducing human beings to mechanically reactive automata . |
| 2 | Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ . |
| 3 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 4 | As noted in chapter 4 , this has not transpired ; instead the Treasury plays the dominant role in budget provision . |
| 5 | Lanarkshire development agency now fulfils the co-ordinating role to which my hon. Friend referred . |
| 6 | Some , e.g. Krieger ( 1983 ) and Sunley ( 1986 ) , stress the crucial role of work organization , and the butty system in particular , whereas others — Waller ( 1983 ) and Rees ( 1985 , 1986 ) — emphasize the power of the colliery companies over their villages , and their monopoly of local labour markets . |
| 7 | First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game . |
| 8 | The constructionist accounts also stress the central role of language and communication in the social process of knowledge . |
| 9 | That , given the negative role of many constituency parties in the past , will be an act of courage and of faith . |
| 10 | The resignation of do Nascimento led to speculation that he would be given the key role of director-general of the national electoral commission , as the government came under increasing pressure from the USA , Russia and Portugal to hasten election preparations . |
| 11 | It will , however , remain to be seen what practical effect is achieved by this legislation , given the central role of the senior judiciary in determining this issue and in the light of judicial criticism of such a measure . |
| 12 | Burton was given the considerable role of Alexander 's friend , Hephaestion . |
| 13 | The report recommended that local authorities should be given the leading role in planning and co-ordinating community care . |
| 14 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 15 | During a visit to California in 1938 , the well-spoken English child actor was given the supporting role as a Cockney lad in Lord Jeff . |
| 16 | THE Government 's Green Bill would seriously damage the independent role of National Rivers Authority and its ability to clamp down on pollution , the organisation 's chief scientist , Dr Jan Pentreath , said yesterday . |
| 17 | New institutions might include boards of directors containing trade union members as such — just as the terms of reference , in ‘ accepting the essential role of trade union organisations ’ , assumed . |
| 18 | They would like to see the present role of parish councils retained and enhanced . |
| 19 | We wish to see the key role of church and other voluntary-aided schools secured and available equally and on the same criteria to all religions . |
| 20 | Thus we want to see the representational role of the newly juxtaposed elements as recognisably preserved within , and thereby helping to determine the new representational role of , the new signal in which they occur . |
| 21 | ( Matthew : Matthew wishes to emphasise the Messianic role of Jesus and includes in his account a quotation from the prophet Zechariah . |
| 22 | The effects of evacuation were perceived in terms of social pathology , so that although evacuation was pronounced less harmful than had been feared the effect of the analysis was to see the normal development of children as problematic , and to emphasise the compensatory role of agencies outside the family — school and its directing bodies in particular . |
| 23 | The project high-lighted the key role of the expert advisors which are used by farm managers in undertaking their roles . |
| 24 | Although this first national legislation placed the federal role as a passive supporter of state and local government policies , it marked the beginning of federal involvement which was to be transformed into an interventionist and policy-initiating role . |
| 25 | Having regard to the doubts already expressed on the advisability of placing entire reliance on the automatic functioning of such systems , it is suggested that the facilities they provide for the application of water might be adapted to perform the additional role of fixed fire fighting equipment . |
| 26 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 27 | The logic of Ormrod J. 's decision must cause us to say that the male in these examples is no longer able to perform the essential role of a male — that is , assert his biological maleness — and is not , therefore , a male for the purposes of marriage , and that therefore there is no marriage . |
| 28 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 29 | At the end of December 1989 the Supreme Court named the three final conservative appointees to the Senate [ see p. 37117 for first six appointments ] , so that the outgoing military regime was represented by 28 of the 47 members , further ensuring that the incoming government of President Aylwin would be unable to modify the central role of the military under the 1980 Constitution [ see p. 30619 ] . |
| 30 | Whilst not denying the symbolic role of leaders , radical elite theorists are more concerned to establish that behind the diversity of official power holders in every liberal democracy there is a defacto centralization of ‘ real ’ decision-making power in the hands of a core executive : the locus of the power elite . |