Example sentences of "[art] central role [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The best thing about Wired was Michael Chiklis 's touching and convincing performance in the central role of John Belushi .
2 Mrs Thatcher will today emphasise the central role of the UN in global environmental issues .
3 The Dawn of Dreams had not been her most glamorous role — to play the central role of a disturbed adolescent Jo had gained 20lb and spent hours creating the greyish , pasty complexion of a kid raised in institutions .
4 With a government that appears consciously to thrive on discord , and which has no policy on crime other than the obviousness of its being evil , the central role of the police has been inevitable .
5 Whether the central role of the party and concentration of power at the top of the political hierarchy would be changed as reforms were carried out remained to be seen .
6 The constructionist accounts also stress the central role of language and communication in the social process of knowledge .
7 Through all this process , and partly because of the pressures created by it , the central role of governors has received little public attention .
8 The central role of the king , frequently called " the good god " or " the great god " , gave a unique character and stability to Egyptian civilisation .
9 In formal terms , the Labour Party in North Tyneside was committed to the central role of council housing in urban development after 1974 .
10 It will , however , remain to be seen what practical effect is achieved by this legislation , given the central role of the senior judiciary in determining this issue and in the light of judicial criticism of such a measure .
11 They rejected the main tenets of revolutionary Marxism , denied the central role of the proletariat , and dreamed of a peasant-based socialism .
12 The central role of the Treasury dates from a minute of 1860. when it was decided that all funds for the government should be released by the Treasury to the various ministries .
13 Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland .
14 In arguing their case the LNA were clearly drawing on those traditions of philanthropy which emphasized the central role of women in the reform of moral conditions .
15 In the Soviet Union the gulf between constitutional principle and political practice was explained by the central role of the CPSU .
16 Whilst recognising the central role of managers in providing counselling in these circumstances , consideration should be given , in exceptional cases , to whether this form of support would be delivered more effectively if it were separated from the normal manager/employee relationship .
17 If some anthropologists , such as Geertz , are interested in the webs of significance humans spin for themselves , while others , such as Sahlins , are more focused on the processes of how those webs are spun , both groups reveal the central role of the interpreter in shaping the material to be represented and in organising the structures in which the representations occur .
18 At the end of December 1989 the Supreme Court named the three final conservative appointees to the Senate [ see p. 37117 for first six appointments ] , so that the outgoing military regime was represented by 28 of the 47 members , further ensuring that the incoming government of President Aylwin would be unable to modify the central role of the military under the 1980 Constitution [ see p. 30619 ] .
19 At the UK 's insistence , the Declaration emphasized the need for " sound economic management " and recognition of " the central role of the market economy " .
20 We might note here the central role of locales in these processes .
21 Finally , we can again recognise the central role of locales .
22 The state according to Castells 's perspective , had the central role of ensuring a healthy capitalist economy .
23 Indeed , one of Dunleavy 's key themes is the central role of state professionals and bureaucracies defending their own material positions , if necessary at the expense of the public services they are supposed to be providing .
24 It is finally time to return to the problem with which we started , to the tension between individual organism and gene as rival candidates for the central role in natural selection .
25 Hobson , while proclaiming the validity of Cobden 's analysis , nevertheless gives capitalists the central role in promoting the new aggressive imperialism .
26 It is significant that the Liberal Democrats , unlike Labour , see a central role for the law and the courts in promoting citizenship : they would seek to clarify the obligations of the state and the rights of the citizen in law .
27 There is a central role for specialists who can integrate the formal with the informal , who are able to influence the centres of power , and are committed more closely to the missions of the NHS than just financial reward .
28 Although all this evidence suggests a central role for the IP 3 R , at least in certain cells , there is controversy concerning the way in which it contributes to the initiation and propagation of calcium waves .
29 All this evidence indicates a central role for InsP 3 in certain forms of sensory perception .
30 Those seeking a central role for the state will doubtless query the advantages of setting up friendly societies competing for members , when a universal service is provided by the state .
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