Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [art] role of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of propositions also included on the California ballot papers included two attempts to increase the role of the Republican party in the redistricting , both of which were defeated . |
| 2 | There were calls to strengthen the role of the Agricultural Training Board , which had been founded amid great acrimony and much suspicion among farmers in the late 1960s , and there were also suggestions of a campaign in schools to extol the benefits of working in agriculture and to counteract the industry 's image of unskilled drudgery . |
| 3 | The main trends could be seen in efforts to reduce the role of the state in economic life ; to introduce elements of ‘ free market forces ’ into previously regulated rural and urban enterprises ; to reduce wastage , inefficiency and ‘ red tape ’ and to promote the ‘ entrepreneurial ’ spirit in order to raise production levels and ultimately living standards across China . |
| 4 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 5 | Peripherality is a major source of the economic problems of depressed regions in Europe , and the British government has been at pains to stress the role of the Channel Tunnel in reducing Britain 's isolation from potential markets . |
| 6 | Are there any plans to downgrade the role of the ScotRail board ? |
| 7 | Notwithstanding claims made by these systems to limit the role of the police in criminal investigations , it will be pointed out that police results have even greater sway on the continent than in England . |