31.  Far from being on the shelf, the school library is playing a central role in the delivery of the national curriculum in secondary schools - actively used by teachers, an asset for the school and a haven of pastoral support for students.

32.  In the Brussels ruling, the Commission has accepted the "central role" of EPSI in the Portuguese economy, as the country's only producer of low- and high-density polyethylene and polypropylene and as a supplier to the country's plastic processing industry.

33.  The final activities were another guided tour, back at Wharf Station, where Graham showed us round the museum that he played a central role in setting up.

34.  A year later, he played a central role in founding the Group of 89, a faction made up of business and professional members of the BLCC who wanted to see a conservative model for Hong Kong's political development.

35.  The view that the universities should have a more central role in offering the kind of imaginative vision necessary to save" mankind" from contemporary destructive forces was given an added impetus in the course of the Second World War.

36.  However, the social security system has played a central role in these processes as an element of government economic management, particularly where it has been used to support employment policies aimed at the exclusion of increasing numbers of older people from the labour market.

37.  Alan Walker argues that the social security policies have played a central role in puffing people on the margins of society, forcing them into retirement and then providing them with a pension which reduces many older people to economic dependency and even poverty.

38.  In mediaeval times, Stephen Harding's phrase Laborare est orare ("to work is to pray") sums up the central role which labour played in people's lives.

39.  Evolution was acceptable as long as it was presented as a purposeful process in which the human race played a central role as the goal towards which natural progress was aimed.

40.  The banks have played a central role in this industrial restructuring.