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

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1 To all intents and purposes , however , they ignored the implications of their demand to enter the public sphere for the role of women in the private sphere of home and family , and chose not to confront the emphasis doctors and scientists placed on the latter .
2 Maude Stanley , for example , a founder of girls ' clubs , voiced the wider social anxiety about the role of girls in the alleged deterioration of the race and the threat of over-population among the working class .
3 Only two texts make sweeping pronouncements about the role of voluntas in trusts .
4 There is still considerable debate about the role of tablets in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes .
5 This helps us to see more clearly the role of science in schools ; to challenge the objectivity of science in the school curriculum would be to initiate searching questions about the role of scientists in today 's society .
6 When measurements such as those described above are supplemented by measurements of correlations and spectra and by flow visualization experiments , some ideas may be developed about the role of eddies of different sizes in the dynamics of the turbulence .
7 The development of a curriculum which inculcates in children respect for cultures different from their own is surely worthwhile , as is an attempt to correct misconceptions about the role of women in society .
8 Party selectorates , for example , reflect and reinforce the attitudes , beliefs and values about the role of women in politics that are widespread throughout society .
9 Keith Pringle 's attempt to provide debate about the role of men in caring for damaged and vulnerable children ( ‘ Gender politics ’ , 4 March ) raised a number of interesting issues .
10 A : You mean Valerie wants to know more about the role of children in Darcy 's Utopia ?
11 The pattern of results raises major concerns about the role of GPs in using section referrals as a method of social control of women .
12 A consideration of additional factors bearing on the merits of an extension of negligence liability along the lines suggested in this section will be undertaken in section III , after the role of markets in raising the standard of management performance has been examined .
13 This may initiate a wider discussion of the role of teachers in a new South Africa and begin to change entrenched attitudes .
14 This fact is a reflection of the role of rules in practical reasoning .
15 Hilton here formulates the same perceptions that govern Rolle 's understanding of the role of meditations on the Passion when he says : In fact Hilton gives no very precise rules about meditation itself because he is aware that it relates intimately to each individual 's unique personality and gifts .
16 To redress the balance , this project seeks to build onto the earlier work an understanding of the role of ideologies of love , sharing , domesticity , familism etc. in intimate couple relationships .
17 My own understanding of the role of services in the lives of disabled people has developed , and in the light of this I have reviewed my own working practices .
18 The ultimate test of the role of GIS in emergency/hazard situations is their response time as external information is fed into the system .
19 Person deixis concerns the encoding of the role of participants in the speech event in which the utterance in question is delivered : the category first person is the grammaticalization of the speaker 's reference to himself , second person the encoding of the speaker 's reference to one or more addressees , and third person the encoding of reference to persons and entities which are neither speakers nor addressees of the utterance in question .
20 Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently .
21 That this is the correct interpretation of the role of words in trusts emerges more clearly in the next section .
22 First , accountability by governments to their least-favoured populations ; second , definition of the role of governments in health care ; third , resources for health care , health inequalities , and human rights ' issues ; fourth , implementation of health measures ; and fifth , international cooperation over health .
23 Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing .
24 Once again , the question of the role of employees in the proposed corporate structure has given rise to some disagreement in the Council .
25 The attitude towards the role of currents in erosion and transport has varied a lot .
26 Katz and Lazarsfeld found ‘ gregariousness ’ to be an important factor associated with the role of women in the formation of public opinion .
27 The traditional approach is concerned almost exclusively with the role of countries as importers .
28 This feature of child development has echoes also in social development , where there is an analogy with the role of objects in social reproduction before the acquisition of writing skills ; at this stage objects as authentic objectifications of the ancestors were , along with oral tradition , the major means of ensuring the continuity of social reproduction ( Weiner 1985 ) .
29 Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook .
30 I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways .
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