Example sentences of "[vb past] the role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , we evaluated the role of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy in a consecutive series of patients referred to our gastroenterology department with bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 2 | They redefined the role of the business head to that of CEO with control over all of his or her resources . |
| 3 | Quite why this should have occurred nobody could explain , but Nigerian audiences had developed a particular liking for Jamaican ‘ toasters ’ — disc-jockeys who usurped the role of singers by half scatting , half shouting over backing tracks in a style half mystical , half political , but wholly saleable . |
| 4 | ‘ I got the role in Neighbours soon after I finished High School . |
| 5 | However , without waiting for the Royal Commission the Liberal Government decided to promote two pieces of legislation that significantly modified the role of the poor law in the provision of social security , the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 and the National Insurance Act of 1911 . |
| 6 | When voices were raised against scandal in Sussex electioneering , they actually reinforced the role of the aristocracy in defining the boundaries of permissible behaviour . |
| 7 | The need to survive , which always dictates the moral standards of society , once more underlined the role of the women . |
| 8 | During the ceremony Gen. Matos underlined the role of armed forces in upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty , whilst Gen. Numa spoke of the armed forces as the foundation of an Angola based on " democracy , peace and social justice " . |
| 9 | Kylie was spotted by casting director Alan Hardy and snatched the role of Carla , the little Dutch girl , from under Dannii 's nose . |
| 10 | This involved the role of the voluntary organisation , the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children . |
| 11 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 12 | The opera includes some lovely arias for the Beauty character , which Argo have recorded with soprano Jayne West ( who created the role in Houston ) , for release this summer . |
| 13 | Will Hay created the role of the seedy , blustering , and ineffectual teacher to such effect that his name remains a byword for the caricatured schoolmaster , and , usually with a small company of two or three ‘ boys ’ , he topped variety bills across the country , made successful trips overseas , and became a noted radio performer . |
| 14 | In 1953 he created the role of the Earl of Essex in Gloriana . |
| 15 | The joint chiefs of staff reviewed the role of Japan in defence policy and recommended to James Forrestal , the Secretary of Defense , on 1 March 1949 that in consequence of the serious world crisis and the probability of this crisis deepening , appropriate measures should be taken at an early date so that the ‘ military potential ’ of Japan could be utilised should events warrant it . |
| 16 | Ironically , too , the towering figure of Bernard , abbot of the Cistercian house at Clairvaux , radically changed the role of the Cistercians . |
| 17 | Following Circular 1444 , the UEMCC believed the role of university extra-mural departments should be further developed : |
| 18 | The LEA judged the role of the advisory staff to be pivotal to its attempts to improve the quality of primary education in Leeds . |
| 19 | He compared the role of voluntary organisations for the physically and mentally handicapped in Britain , the United States , the Netherlands and Israel . |
| 20 | In one group discussion we explored the role of women further . |
| 21 | This study explored the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway in the regulation of gall bladder motility . |
| 22 | After 1739 it was ruled by members of the southern Indian Nayakkar dynasty , who adopted the roles of Sinhalese kings . |
| 23 | In the end , he adopted the role of ‘ cockney writer ’ , a role which was genuine , and which showed the boys that Corrigan was interested in them for themselves . |
| 24 | It was for this reason that the fieldworkers in the other areas , who were not local residents , adopted the role of ‘ a friend of a friend ’ which gave them a clear status of an informal kind . |
| 25 | Messrs Deakins and Hussain adopted the role of small business proprietors to investigate the importance of the different criteria used in making lending decision by bank managers to small businesses , and they recorded the opinions of 30 bank managers in the West Midlands on a real business plan for a new start-up company , which would provide information technology ( IT ) services to quantity surveyors . |
| 26 | Over the next 138 years several Acts of Parliament enhanced the role of the district audit service , the most recent legislation for England and Wales being provided by the Local Government Finance Act 1982 . |
| 27 | But in any case , Schopenhauer 's terms of reference were such that the poet-composer could never properly comply with them , for the simple reason that they reduced the role of the word in a musical context to nothing more than a necessary evil . |
| 28 | She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours . |
| 29 | David Hill , the party 's unflappable director of communications , has more than adequately filled the role performed by Peter Mandelson in 1987 . |
| 30 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |