Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a role " in BNC.

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1 These observations are consistent with findings with normal subjects suggesting a role for the right hemisphere in appreciation of the prosodic factors in speech ( Haggard and Parkinson , 1971 ; Zurif 1974 ; Blumstein and Cooper , 1974 ; Craig , 1979a ; Dwyer and Rinn , 1981 ) .
2 As we have already implied , GIS has a role to play in all aspects of hazard research , from hazard monitoring , risk assessment and emergency planning to coping with an event and evaluating its consequences .
3 It will be seen from the specimen paper that follows , that the compulsory question will require candidates to adopt a role as a junior marketing manager , and to show that they understand the basic principles of marketing management .
4 I believe that all parties have a role to play in implementing the peace accord , but of course the South African Government have the primary responsibility for the impartial maintenance of law and order .
5 The House , individual hon. Members and political parties have a role to play , as have the political parties in the Republic of Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Ireland , who have a central role .
6 Often a debilitated fish could be saved if it could just be persuaded to feed — perhaps such formulations have a role to play .
7 There were close links between the railway and the military , and military personnel played a role in RENFE management in the company 's early years ( Wais 1974 : 664 ) ( as indeed was the case in the British Transport Commission ) .
8 These institutions played a role as imperial symbols , allowing Europeans to visualize the extent of their world-wide conquests through the display of exotic species .
9 It was suggested then that the linear arrangement of linguistic elements plays a role in organizing messages at text level .
10 The obvious possibility is for their trade associations to play a role on their behalf .
11 These contradictory data could perhaps be explained by different viruses having a role in different geographical areas .
12 As the constitutional authorities gradually detach themselves from wholehearted support for our system of democracy so they envisage the judges assuming a role of extended significance in defending liberty and in checking what they regard as the misuse of political power .
13 So for example he 's Mill is very keen on the idea of local participation , that everyone should at some point in their lives play a role in local government in some level .
14 There is in fact little evidence that coping responses play a role in the aetiology of major psychiatric disorder since it has not been possible so far to conduct experiments .
15 However , we have shown that mental models have a role in the interpretation of ellipses , and that a surface representation is used to interpret pronouns .
16 In recent years there has been an increased reliance on statute law , for example , in relation to public order and the powers of the police , but , of course , here too , the judges have a role to play in the interpretation of the statutory provisions .
17 It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " .
18 The aim of this study was to examine whether endogenous eicosanoids play a role in controlling cyclosporin A induced toxicity .
19 A key issue is the extent to which the money market continues to be dominated by the markets in which the banks play a role either as intermediary or guarantor .
20 However , the proportions in which elements are produced in the big bang depend on the number of types of neutrino ( the neutrinos play a role in moving energy around the fireball ) .
21 The VHPB believes many bodies and organisations have a role to play in reducing current levels of occupational hepatitis B infection .
22 Thus , there is in these Articles , a recognition that individual governments have a role to play in combating the vagaries of the economic system within their own boundaries .
23 The objection that the scientific revolution saw the separation of science from both religion and magic hardly clears the air , because religious beliefs played a role in the assault on magical practices , with hard-headed Protestants putting magic and Roman Catholic rituals in much the same category .
24 The large eddies play a role out of proportion to their contribution to the turbulent energy , both in the interaction between the mean flow and the turbulence and in the turbulent energy transfer process involved in Fig. 21.8 .
25 The arguments supporting a role for the IP 3 R in propagating calcium waves through Xenopus oocytes and hamster eggs were summarized earlier .
26 All these bodies favoured a role for a European Environment Agency that involved the collection and collation of data from EC member countries .
27 Pawnbrokers had a role in society , and it was one which writers in social and literary reviews were constantly querying .
28 Even foot-soldiers had a role to play .
29 With regard to endogenous factors , there is no doubt that gender differences play a role , with women more susceptible to alcohol induced liver injury than men .
30 I think that the departments have a role to play in that .
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