Example sentences of "[noun] might have a role " in BNC.

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1 Although the authors concluded that the results indicated that mycobacteria might have a role in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease , a further search for mycobacteria in the affected intestinal tissue with antibodies to M paratuberculosis strain linda , M tuberculosis , and the common mycobacterial antigen lipoarabinomannan failed to find a positive reaction in any of 67 specimens from 30 affected patients .
2 It would be well into the 1920s before the majority of geneticists began to concede that natural selection might have a role to play by regulating the spread of mutated characters within the population .
3 The seriousness of the offence might have a role to play , though not a conclusive one .
4 The cause of Dupuytren 's disease is unknown , but inflammatory cells might have a role .
5 We previously proposed that restorative proctocolectomy might have a role in the management of patients with continued constipation despite subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis if there was objective evidence of slow transit constipation .
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