Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] role of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lessons from abroad instruct us to re-examine the role of the individual complaint-based method of tackling discriminatory practices which are institutionalised and group-oriented . |
| 2 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Erm , th , I think it 's the government 's ideal to promote the role of the extended family which , to me , is anathema in the nineteen nineties . |
| 4 | It is tempting to see the role of the Tory administration , which included Disraeli , as an anticipatory theft of the other Party 's clothes . |
| 5 | Chissano and Dhlakama pledged ( i ) to guarantee conditions that would allow complete political freedom " in accordance with internationally recognized principles of democracy " ; ( ii ) to guarantee the personal security of all Mozambican citizens and all members of political parties ; ( iii ) to accept the role of the international community and particularly the UN in monitoring and guaranteeing the implementation of the general peace agreement , particularly the ceasefire agreement and electoral process ; ( iv ) to respect the principles contained in Protocol No. 1 [ see p. 38517 ] under the terms of which the government undertook not to adopt or apply laws which could conflict with agreements between the parties , while Renamo undertook to stop fighting and to behave as a political party ; ( v ) to respect political rights , with the government specifically committing itself to incorporating the various agreements and protocols into law [ see pp. 38517 ; 38565 ; 38804 ] ; and ( vi ) to complete an agreed agenda and sign a general peace agreement incorporating a ceasefire by Oct. 1 . |
| 6 | Similar studies need to be done to evaluate the role of the cholinergic nerves in the gastric response to intragastric ethanol . |
| 7 | Further , recall Channon 's argument that many such multi-unit enterprises in Britain have , over recent years , found the ‘ functional ’ model of organisation — i.e. the monolithic top-down hierarchy — to be too inflexible and have quite deliberately changed over to a multidivisional form , reforming the managerial apparatus to restrict the role of the general office and permit a greater degree of autonomy for the management of the operating units . |
| 8 | On Nov. 28-Dec. 24 some 137 members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in eastern and western Europe , together with representatives of Orthodox and Protestant churches , attended a Synod in Rome to discuss the role of the Roman Catholic Church in post-Communist Europe . |
| 9 | We hope that there will be new articles in the treaty to strengthen the role of the European Parliament in the area to which my hon. Friend has referred . |
| 10 | " In order to strengthen the role of the European Parliament , the Council asks the conference to consider the following measures : extension and improvement of the co-operation procedure ; extension of the procedure for assent to international agreements which require unanimous approval by the Council ; involvement of the European Parliament in the appointment of the Commission and its president ; increased powers on budget control and financial accountability ; closer monitoring of the implementation of Community policies ; and consolidation of the rights of petition and inquiry as regards Community matters . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | More adventurously , the teacher might choose to play the role of the Roman Centurion who reads out the decree . |
| 13 | An unlikely choice , many would have thought , was comedian Peter Glaze to play the role of the evil City Administrator . |
| 14 | We have used a mutant ( prospero ) that removes or delays innervation to assay the role of the presynaptic motor neuron in the development of the receptive field of the postsynaptic muscle . |
| 15 | If socialist regimes have been reluctant to promote indigenous businessmen for this reason , most regimes have sought to curtail the role of the immigrant groups who had played a key role in the economy in the colonial period . |
| 16 | Studies are currently under way to determine the role of the laryngeal mask in emergency medicine and the degree of training required to ensure its safe application in this area . |
| 17 | The new results do not exclude the possibility that neutrinos have mass , and so cosmologists still have the freedom to consider the role of the massive neutrino in the evolution of the Universe . |
| 18 | Anand was chosen despite the passage by the House of Representatives on June 10 of amendments to the Constitution , the chief among which , intended to reduce the role of the military , stipulated that a future Prime Minister had to be an elected member of parliament . |
| 19 | Within the last decade , analogous methods have been used to study the role of the gastro-intestinal tract in satiation . |
| 20 | In order to investigate the role of the C-terminal part of the α-subunit in cooperative binding with CRP at different promoters , we repeated the band-shift experiments with the reconstituted polymerases after preincubation with CRP and cAMP . |
| 21 | The general trend towards central control , together with the introduction of LMS , which delegates to governors many of the management powers which have traditionally been the responsibility of the local authority , have conspired significantly to alter the role of the local education authority . |
| 22 | The chief executive of the NHS in Scotland , the chairman of the Scottish General Medical Services Committee ( BMA ) , and 100 general practitioners held a vigorous debate on the need to clarify the role of the general practitioner in the assessment process , the need for training and education , and involvement in the planning process . |
| 23 | That would be to ignore the role of the influential Communist Party and of grass-roots pressure within the movements . |