Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the reformers of the 1870s and 1880s believed that women would earn both a new respect , if they could eschew the frivolities of fashion , and a new freedom which would liberate them to perform a useful role in society . |
| 2 | I wish to add a personal word on a subject related to recent events , in which I played a personal role . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew , you see , that my mother could n't help leaving me and that , even in her illness , I had a loving role to play . |
| 4 | ‘ I have a managerial role , organising in-service training and schedule , but I also teach and that is what is important to me . |
| 5 | In a number of overseas countries the role of actuaries has been enhanced by requiring them to fulfil a statutory role . |
| 6 | Through this Initiative , the University hopes to develop in its graduates and diplomates qualities which will enable them to play a positive role in an increasingly competitive and changing world . |
| 7 | We need to offer an education that enables them to play a positive role in society by giving them the opportunity to use their talents . |
| 8 | And were you given a particular role for this operation ? |
| 9 | I have seen Annabelle acting in school plays/ at the drama club on many occasions but today she does n't need to act , she has a starring role . |
| 10 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 11 | Would you like a fupporting role in my tribal love-rock mufical Camelot ? |
| 12 | Whilst recognising that specialist homes may become " dumping grounds " she sees a positive role for such homes ( Norman , 1987 ) , which as centres of excellence , provide information and support as well as care . |
| 13 | Did you have a guiding role in this ? |
| 14 | She lost a coveted role in Batman after a mysterious riding accident . |
| 15 | During the campaign she had a high-profile role as the woman who was prepared to keep tight control over the purse strings and demonstrate Labour 's readiness for Government by rejecting demands from her Shadow Cabinet colleagues for excessive spending . |
| 16 | Q. You had a major role in the new Tencel plant in Mobile . |
| 17 | This is because you have a different role . |
| 18 | ’ We play a supportive role . |
| 19 | We play a significant role in the supervision of insurance companies and pension funds , providing a link between the supervisors and the companies and funds . |
| 20 | We as activists hold very special the important role trade unions have played in the Labour Party and feel that we have a continued role to play . |
| 21 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 22 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 23 | We have a particular role which is different er indeed to Fire and Public Protection , although I accept the fact that they have the overview for emergency planning . |
| 24 | Here in Britain we see a major role as key worker , or care manager , coordinating welfare services as well as health care . |
| 25 | In feeding habits they occupy a similar role to the kites in Europe , Africa and Asia . |
| 26 | In the process , they played a key role in shaping the world as we know it ; determining , in fact , the entire course of evolution . |
| 27 | They played a key role in the original establishment of the Labour Party , and provide a large proportion of the party 's funds today . |
| 28 | In the ante-bellum period , remarkably few Blacks were employed on Northern railways , but in the South they played a key role . |
| 29 | Although representatives of the Prussian ruling class they played a necessary role in the development of the national aspirations of the people which was to lead to our new Germany … . ’ |
| 30 | They played a significant role in initiating cultural ideas at the centre for subsequent vulgarization and dissemination throughout Russia , at first through ‘ fat ’ specialized journals and then later via the popular press . |