Example sentences of "[prep] the role of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 2 | ANYBODY casting a pantomime this Christmas might not instantly consider Margaret Thatcher for the role of Cinderella or Douglas Hurd in the part of Buttons . |
| 3 | Kylie was to audition for the role of a tomboy mechanic called Charlene Mitchell , in a new soap called Neighbours . |
| 4 | When Jan first saw the fresh faced youngster — by now 18 years old — there was never any doubt that she was the actress for the role of Charlene . |
| 5 | It was then that the club 's management co-operative gave Mr Stringer so much support , and the relationship is now reciprocated with Mr Stringer only too happy for the role of coaches Dave Williams and Mike Walker to be appreciated . |
| 6 | Preparation for the role of the ward sister has been haphazard . |
| 7 | There is greater concern for the role of language throughout the curriculum , particular attention being paid to the relation between language and activity methods in lower primary classes ( Zambia and Swaziland ) . |
| 8 | Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis , with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens . |
| 9 | For the role of Elaine 's mother , known only as Mrs Robinson , the sexy older woman who seduces the young hero , Nichols wanted the semi-retired 48-year-old Susan Hayward . |
| 10 | A week later , Warren Beatty grabbed him for the role of Clyde 's brother Buck in Bonnie and Clyde , for which he would gain an Oscar nomination . |
| 11 | As for work , he had auditioned for the role of the Dauphin in Anouilh 's The Lark at the Lincoln Center , but he did not get the part . |
| 12 | To prevent a messy legal battle , the TODAY casting couch has come up with alternative stars for the role of Liz and seventh husband Larry . |
| 13 | Tatum , 29 , signed for the role of ex-Playboy bunny Bambi Bembenek — who killed her husband 's ex-wife -just a fortnight after she revealed she was ending her six-year marriage . |
| 14 | Anthony Hopkins has been signed to play the role of writer C S Lewis and several top American actresses are vying for the role of his American girlfriend . |
| 15 | Both Miss Hurley , 26 , a talented actress who narrowly missed out to Joely Richardson as the BBC 's new Lady Chatterley , and Miss Anthony , 29 , who starred in Woody Allen 's Husbands And Wives , have had second screen tests for the role of Scarlett O'Hara . |
| 16 | GHOST star Demi Moore has splashed out £1.5 million for the role of an opera-loving coroner . |
| 17 | Families in these situations need particular understanding and support , for it is not easy for wider family and friends to act as effective substitutes for the role of the missing parent . |
| 18 | The 12-year-old hero of Home Alone and My Girl is taking ballet lessons to prepare him for the role of Prince in Tchaikovsky 's Nutcracker Suite . |
| 19 | In the light of work indicating that the abundance of carbon in high-grade rocks has been underestimated in the past , our results provide strong evidence for the role of carbon in lower-crustal conductivity . |
| 20 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 21 | They developed a theory of the state which was a long way removed from the rational calculative tendencies of utilitarianism and provided a justification for the role of the state in the spheres of economic life and welfare which went beyond what has usually been countenanced within Liberalism , whether based on utilitarianism or Lockean theory . |
| 22 | What appears to be of more significance for the role of keiretsu in Japan 's economic growth is their objective of diversifying their interests in the widest possible range of activities throughout manufacturing industry , construction , finance and the service sector . |
| 23 | Rather one must teach criminal law jurisprudentially and the circumstance that criminal law throws up so much grist for the jurisprudential mill fits it rather well for the role of an introductory course . |
| 24 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 25 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 26 | But this is bound to be so , granted Quine 's case for the role of theory in interpreting experience . |
| 27 | Economic expansion in seventeenth-century Europe , and the growth of the mining industry in particular , are given special prominence in an analysis that made generous allowance for the role of technical problems in defining areas of scientific research . |
| 28 | For the role of the CNET in space research changed with the creation of the CNES between December 1961 and March 1962 . |
| 29 | The need for the role of the community to be given paramount importance was stressed , that is , the community 's own perception of needs and desire to do something for themselves ( self-help ) . |
| 30 | Originally constructed to account for atomic physics it has proved equally applicable to the behaviour of those latest candidates for the role of basic constituents of matter , the quarks and gluons . |