Example sentences of "to have [art] [adj] role " in BNC.

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1 These were termed severe events and were assumed to have a causal role .
2 Being brought up in an institution or by neglectful parents , a pregnancy , early marriage , and showing poor planning skills were considered to have a causal role in adult depression .
3 People , their understandings of their circumstances and their struggles to force collective facilities out of the state , were again under-conceptualised and , indeed , even seemed to have a small role to play .
4 But the sociology of knowledge was to have a bridging role in the progress towards a scientific truth that would lead to a revelation of human essence ( Stark 1958 : 209 ) .
5 The precise aetiology remains unclear but fibroblasts and myofibroblasts are thought to have a central role , and superoxide free radicals might be the stimulus to myofibroblast proliferation .
6 More and more , ever since Irangate , Iran seemed to have a crucial role to play in the release of American and French hostages .
7 Drugs will continue to have a key role in preventing and treating disease and in ameliorating symptoms .
8 The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making .
9 It was planted for generations to supply the strong bows for archers but now appears to have a new role as a protector — in the fight against cancer .
10 From 1992 the Council for National Academic Awards [ CNAA ] will cease to have a validating role .
11 If district councils in Northern Ireland are to have a meaningful role in promoting tourism and job creation within their areas , can the Secretary of State give us an assurance that he will ask the planners to deal more sympathetically with applications that have district council approval for facilities to cater for the tourists who are coming now and the many more that we expect in the future ?
12 Those who oppose the ordination of women believe that God intends them to have a different role in the Church from men — though an equally valid one .
13 Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence .
14 We conclude that patients with cirrhosis have raised serum laminin concentrations independent of portal hypertension , and that liver dysfunction seems to have a pathogenetic role in the increase of this glycoprotein .
15 All concerned have long since settled differences and Barnes , whose colleagues will comprise a leavening of senior hands amid a group of aspiring internationals , is happy to have an influential role .
16 Sodalities , such as the Legion of Mary , Opus Dei , and Christian Life communities , have partially extended this form of commitment to some , particularly more middle-class laity , and continue to have an important role in activating laity for what are judged to be religious goals both personally and socially .
17 Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients .
18 District nurses are considered to have an important role in the effective assessment and provision of community care .
19 Temporary work seems to have an important role to play in the transition from unemployment to employment .
20 Some committee clerks come to have an important role , especially when they work with the same committee and the same chairman for some time .
21 GPs were to have an important role in alerting social services to the social care needs of their patients .
22 Will he confirm that , provided they can deliver the national curriculum , they will continue to have an important role in modern education ?
23 Human factors are now known to have an important role in the control of risk .
24 In particular , the terminal ileum seems to have an important role in the regulation of small intestinal transit .
25 From that time , they have continued to have an important role in the discounting of bills and as a result of this function have come to fill a pivotal role between the banks and the Bank of England in the determination of short term interest rates .
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