Example sentences of "that [pron] role [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been what WEU was originally intended to do , but nevertheless its belated reincarnation in the 1980s could not disguise the fact that its role in the process of European integration has been rather marginal . |
| 2 | To confuse the issue even more , at least from Catt 's point of view , her letter from Gedge , Solowka and Gregory arrived at a time when she thought that her role in the group was about to become more prominent . |
| 3 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 4 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 5 | But in such a modern industrialized state it was not long before many groups realized that their role in the social and economic system made their co-operation and support essential to the Communist Party . |
| 6 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 7 | Just as Prime Minister Streibl was perhaps hoping that his role in the Waldheim affair had been forgotten came an uncomfortable reminder that his own approach to Germany 's past history is not beyond scrutiny . |
| 8 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 9 | In spite of his enthusiastic involvement in Wales , he must then have been something of an unknown quantity and it is possible that his role in the north was originally envisaged as that of one among equals . |
| 10 | It seems to me you have to start from the fact that your role in the community is to produce goods and services which people want . |