Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] [noun] to play " in BNC.
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| 1 | In pursuing this aim , IDB 's Marketing Development Division has a key role to play through the wide range of support which it can offer to all sizes of companies in Northern Ireland involved in manufacturing or providing internationally tradeable services . |
| 2 | The GP has a crucial role to play in the development of health services . |
| 3 | Another important aspect of diversification is the need for retraining in which the agricultural training board has a dynamic role to play . |
| 4 | We believe that N C V O has a key role to play in involving the voluntary sector in representing your concerns . |
| 5 | ‘ I know that people are not going out of their way to create problems but I believe the national side has a great role to play in terms of providing players with status , confidence and a substantially increased market value . |
| 6 | The chemical industry 's ‘ Responsible Care ’ programme has a major role to play in demonstrating that the industry is serious in its intent to perform better . |
| 7 | Many other people have rights , including those concerned with fishing , and in my native Scotland the value of fishing has a significant part to play in the local economy , particulary in remote areas . |
| 8 | Investment has a dual role to play within any economy . |
| 9 | That assurance , derived from the conviction that the WEA had a major role to play in society and that the Eastern District was successful in fulfilling it , was apparent in the paper , ‘ A Consideration of Aims and Purposes ’ , written by former treasurer Edward Miller in 1956 . |
| 10 | However , management of a life assurance company or a pension fund also extends to managing the assets and actuarial methods have a vital part to play in this area . |
| 11 | ‘ Story ’ , ‘ travel ’ and ‘ journey ’ all blur together , drawing on Federman 's study of Beckett , the title of which is incorporated into this text and into Double Or Nothing , so that once again traces of realistic action have a metaphorical role to play . |
| 12 | In the meantime , I would argue , the logic of activity-based product-costing has a vital part to play in ensuring proper corporate resource allocation . |
| 13 | Because of the difficulties of getting it all together , the chairperson or co-ordinator has a key part to play ( see Chairing meetings on page 28 ) . |
| 14 | The financial controller has a key role to play in facilitating this learning process by improving the way in which the cost-accounting system reveals what really are the cost-drivers ( i.e. the factors really leading to the incidence of specific types of costs ) . |
| 15 | The Institute has a key role to play in bringing the expertise of transport professionals to bear on this issue . |
| 16 | It is argued here that the public sector has a crucial part to play in initiating the first moves back to full employment . |
| 17 | Second , but perhaps not so much in the form of a survival as in that of a revival , Russian Formalism had a significant part to play in the development of Parisian structuralism during the 1960s ( particularly in the work of Todorov and Genette ) . |
| 18 | By Edward I 's reign ( 1272–1307 ) the continental possessions of his house had shrunk to a fraction of their former vast extent — by 1290 they consisted solely of the duchy of Aquitaine and comté of Ponthieu — but the notion that the Plantagenets had a continental role to play remained firmly embedded in their minds and in those of their subjects on both sides of the Channel . |
| 19 | Parents have a major role to play in getting the message home . |
| 20 | Parents have a crucial role to play in preparing their children for an independent adult life but may in practice unwittingly inhibit that progress . |
| 21 | Several studies have suggested that health visitors have a major role to play in screening and assessing the elderly ( Luker 1988 ; Vetter et al . |
| 22 | Community pharmacists have a developing role to play in improving prescribing |
| 23 | Data archives have a vital role to play in ensuring that documentation is produced which , as far as possible satisfies user requirements . |
| 24 | Tax reform has a crucial part to play in springing the underclass from welfare dependency , as well as building up support for such a programme amongst a much wider group of the electorate . |
| 25 | The European Community has a vital role to play : increasing European investment in science and technology ; promoting joint ventures between companies and countries ; reducing duplication ; investing in technology transfer and diffusion ; and raising the standards of basic science and technological education in schools , colleges and universities . |
| 26 | The Community has a vital role to play — but it needs more power and resources . |
| 27 | Every member of the team has a vital role to play in ensuring that this happens . |
| 28 | In this context formal taxation of costs on the standard basis has a major role to play , though in minor cases costs may be agreed between the parties without the need for taxation . |
| 29 | The chemist has a key role to play in protecting resources , health and the environment , and also preventing the ‘ dumping ’ in developing countries of chemicals rejected as too dangerous for use in the industrial world . |
| 30 | Social workers have a key role to play when someone suspects that a child is being abused . |