31.  In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock's Gorton factory in Manchester, recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives, and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer, Peacock & Co. until his death.

32.  It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of "comfort" from Bank of Edinburgh's largest minority shareholder, Scottish Amicable, with 39.2 per cent, effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role.

33.  On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh's affairs - which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted - then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared.

34.  The new Democratic President is poised to play a far more active role in coming to the aid of the industry, which lost $10 billion in the past three years, than his Republican predecessor, the Times said.

35.  In this way, the school librarian is taking an active role in information dissemination and marketing the library" products" in a new and effective way.

36.  The process should encourage the pupils to play an active role in learning.

37.  The Lords of Trade asked merchants and other interests to give their opinions about policy; a number of ministers had grants of their own for settlements in North America and clearly expected to benefit as landlords, though they did not go out like the Penns and the Baltimores to take an active role in running their properties.

38.  What we never consider is whether women really want men to change or whether we take an active role - both as lovers and mothers - in keeping traditional expectations of men alive.

39.  But that will only happen if and when holidaymakers use their consumer power to insist that hotels, tour operators and international airlines take an active role in minimising their impact on the environment.

40.  Structuralism was able to use the nouveaux romanciers denial of an autobiographical motivation and its allocation of an apparently more active role to the reader as an illustration of the "death of the author" criterion, while the difficult question of referentiality would be echoed by many of the novelists themselves in critical debate.