Example sentences of "of the role of [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Barnes ( 1990 ) made a recent study of the role of day centres for disabled young people , in which few opportunities were offered for significant decision-making despite the operation of ostensibly progressive policies .
2 One of the most useful studies of the role of life events and difficulties in depression has been conducted by George Brown and Tirril Harris and their colleagues in London over the last fifteen years .
3 It is important to bear this in mind in any study of the role of school governors in meeting special educational needs .
4 This would be the first public acknowledgment of the role of union leaders in a Labour victory .
5 Revusky ( 1971 , 1977 ) has developed an account of the role of interference effects in associative learning that has proved applicable to a wide range of phenomena .
6 Corporatism differs from pluralism in its interpretation of the role of interest groups by stressing the control which the state exerts over the selection of groups to be incorporated into the policy-making process .
7 The new electoral law was passed but it made no mention of the role of opposition groups , merely stating that elections would take place within the framework of socialism , thus effectively barring non-socialist candidates .
8 In sections 2.2 and 2.3 , we outline the determinants of the demand for and the supply of labour and the factors which contribute to the determination of wages in the UK , including a discussion of the role of trade unions .
9 The first eight chapters principally concern comparative aspects of industrial relations in advanced , market-type economies in Western Europe , the USA , Japan and Australia although there is some discussion of the role of trade unions in communist countries and of the Yugoslav self-management system .
10 The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint .
11 So far under this heading ‘ trade union and legislative development ’ , as under the earlier headings , the case effectively stated remains the case for extension , within the existing dispensation , of the role of trade unions .
12 In response , it was argued that the denigration of the role of trade unions was part of the Thatcher ethos of focusing on the individual rather than the collective .
13 Representative standing also raises the wider issue of the role of pressure groups in the formation of government policy .
14 Much of the detailed analysis of the role of pressure groups in the policy-making process has been carried out in the United States .
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