Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , regional policies play an ideological role favourable to private capital : they present the economic recession as a problem of geographical distribution of jobs rather than what it is — a problem of simply insufficient jobs on a national level . |
| 2 | The formulation and implementation of pilot , demonstration and otherwise innovative projects plays a crucial role in unlocking and mobilising the full potential of Glasgow 's assets . |
| 3 | The regional authorities have a major role in resource and curriculum planning for the school and community education sectors . |
| 4 | There is , in fact , a complex network of gene interactions , the product of one gene controlling the activity of others which involves an intimate relationship between nucleus and cytoplasm , because cytoplasmic signals play a crucial role in controlling transcription and thus determining whether genes are on or off . |
| 5 | In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role , but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves . |
| 6 | The mechanism functions only if fiscal considerations play a decisive role in location choice . |
| 7 | Furthermore , sometimes the government expressly delegates public administrative functions to non-governmental bodies : for example , under the Financial Services Act 1986 the Securities and Investments Board exercises a wide range of regulatory functions delegated to it by the Secretary of State ; the Board of Deputies of British Jews plays an important role in policing certain Sunday Trading laws ; the Wood Green Animal Shelter in North London runs the government 's computerized register of fighting dogs ; and the Rowntree Trust ( a private charitable organization ) administers the Family Fund ( a public fund to assist families of severely handicapped children ) . |
| 8 | Gerry : Having a Black lesbian worker as chairperson and more Black/gay stewards played an important role in changing the Union . |
| 9 | In so far as top businessmen play a decisive role in company strategy — as distinct from its public presentation — the talents they need will vary from one situation to another . |
| 10 | It has become an assumption of liberal political and constitutional theory that public officials perform an instrumental role . |
| 11 | Social workers have a key role to play when someone suspects that a child is being abused . |
| 12 | Social workers have an important role in raising clients ' consciousness of the structural sources of their difficulties so that they can achieve greater influence and control over their lives . |
| 13 | While earlier growth was more dependent on manpower and the recovery factor , increases in working capital and improved techniques played a major role subsequently . |
| 14 | Lane contends that ‘ other social forces play an important role in the decisions of the leadership . |
| 15 | Indeed , regional Leagues played an active role in strike-breaking , encouraging the enrolment of volunteer workers , providing lorry drivers and transporting foodstuffs , and publishing news-sheets and leaflets attacking ‘ the pernicious influence of the reds ’ . |
| 16 | The relationship between cause and effect in mental illness is complex , but social and economic circumstances play an important role in both precipitating and prolonging difficulties . |
| 17 | Most health education and health promotion campaigns are based on the assumptions that individual lifestyles play an important role in experiences of health and disease , and that individual behaviour can be influenced by some combination of information , emotional appeal and suggestions for change . |
| 18 | The manipulation of the web of personal relations has an ambiguous role for , on the one hand , it serves to ease difficulties and build bridges across social divides but , on the other , it helps to maintain the status quo and , therefore , the inequalities in the social structure . |
| 19 | It is self-evident that civil servants have an important role to play in implementing policy . |
| 20 | The women in the armies of the English Civil Wars played a significant role , having shown great courage , determination and innovation . |
| 21 | These joint systems play an important role in the development of weathering forms ( see Section 6.3.1 ) and of drainage patterns ( see Section 16.2.2 ) . |
| 22 | For example , in the UK it is commonly argued that Labour governments give a special role in public policy-making to the trade unions ( with whom the party is closely associated ) , whilst excluding business interest groups from comparable influence . |
| 23 | We have already seen how the endogeneity of inflationary expectations played a central role in Friedman 's critique of the Phillips curve . |
| 24 | The socialist parties played a peripheral role in the revolution of 1905 . |
| 25 | Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down , with the various national archives taken a leading role ( Higgs 1992 ) . |
| 26 | Optical discs play a fundamental role in multimedia . |
| 27 | This suggests that the solution of limestone in such areas must be controlled by components other than carbonic acid and it seems likely that organic acids play a major role . |
| 28 | It hardly needs to be said that Tories are capitalists , and therefore to a woman ( Tory women playing a significant role in this ) subscribe to the view that the dominance of heterosexuality , notably the White Heterosexual Family , is to be preserved come hell or high water . |
| 29 | The regional managers occupy a crucial role in providing a strategic framework for management of the Teacher Placement Service . |
| 30 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |