Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a role " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
| 2 | Numerous data have suggested a role of arachidonic acid metabolite in the pathophysiology of various gastrointestinal disorders . |
| 3 | The former detective hero has won a role as a mobster in a new American cop series The Commish . |
| 4 | The former Soviet leader has won a role in the latest Wim Wenders film Far Away So Close . |
| 5 | Moreover , geopolitics have played a role in duplicating lines to land-locked deposits . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , one wonders to what extent higher education in the UK has played a role in creating not a military-industrial , but financial-bureaucratic complex , dominated by the City and the Treasury , which works to the long-term disadvantage of not simply manufacturing but all forms of ‘ producer ’ industries . |
| 7 | Whilst the human studies had suggested a role for the hippocampus in the transition between short- and long-term declarative memory — a role supported by study of hippocampal lesions in monkeys — another facet of the hippocampus 's role in memory was being uncovered in rats . |
| 8 | Alcoholic beverages have played a role in many societies for over 7000 years — before the existence of written history . |
| 9 | Even management consultants have found a role in environmental consulting . |
| 10 | He told priests the church had to play a role of reconciliation in newly democratic societies trying to leave communism behind them . |
| 11 | A parliamentary commission was set up on Nov. 13 to establish whether the police had played a role in the recent violence , which continued into the following week in the departments of Jinotega and Estelí where 15 people were killed . |
| 12 | ‘ If this bank had played a role in the Hoylake/BAT battle it would have been top of the table , ’ said Philip Healey , editor of Acquisitions Monthly . |
| 13 | At different times , and in different ways , the spatial divisions in economic organization have played a role in the national patterns of short-term fluctuations characteristic of the successive historical periods . |
| 14 | America had lost a role ( defending the free world against the Soviet Union ) and instantly re-invented another ; taking responsibility for the free world . |
| 15 | It is hoped that the work will contribute to policy : in establishing the different senses of environmental degradation that tourism may engender ; in considering whether tourism in fact has played a role in generating a heightened green awareness ; and in demonstrating the diverse kinds of environment that visitors expect even in an area of outstanding ‘ natural ’ beauty as in the Lake District . |
| 16 | German and Swedish trade unions have taken a role in the initiation of flexibility in the workplace , in the promoting of job enrichment through the broadening of job classifications . |