Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [adj] role [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Local Government International Bureau will have a major role to play in ensuring that local government is indeed ready .
2 They include such things as stock control , critical path analysis , and organiser programs — and may well have a major role to play in mathematics learning in the future .
3 This fact , linked to the evidence that a high proportion of defective issues are suffering from use-related types of damage — such as detached boards and loose pages — points very strongly to the conclusion that the routine vetting of material supplied to readers should have a major role to play in the selection of items for repair and refurbishment .
4 It is arguable that more recently retired business men would have a constructive role to play .
5 No one who seeks to impose his will by terror can have a constructive role to play in the resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland .
6 The government managed to make its legislation ‘ stick ’ , in contrast to Mr Heath 's experience , and has refuted the old ‘ liberal ’ view that the courts did not have a useful role to play in industrial relations .
7 We also agree that hysteroscopic biopsy may have a useful role to play in the investigation of these patients .
8 In certain aspects of M&A advisory work it is appropriate to involve specialists from the management consultancy firm who may have a useful role to play on larger and/or more complex assignments .
9 It is possible that synthetic speech may have a useful role to play in testing language learners ' ability to perceive important segmental and suprasegmental distinctions in the language they are learning .
10 If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play .
11 From the start of welfare provision for the disabled it was recognized that social workers would have a key role to play in putting the handicapped in touch with the provision available .
12 With Northern Ireland so reliant on its air links , Belfast International will always have a key role to play in the province 's transport and tourism infrastructure .
13 For catering and Hospitality Management NVQ level IV there will be joint certification of the awards and HCIMA will also have a key role to play in determining relevant assessment structures , external verification and quality assurance and control .
14 For catering and hospitality management NVQ level IV there will be joint certification of qualifications and HCIMA will have a key role to play in determining relevant assessment structures for the awards .
15 The LEA English adviser should have a co-ordinating role to ensure liaison between feeder primary schools and their secondary schools .
16 Family will also have a crucial role to play .
17 It does , however , have a crucial role to play in two respects , theoretically and methodologically .
18 The Secretary of State for the Environment argued , however , that the voluntary sector would have a genuine role to play ( Shore , 1978 ) .
19 The imaging technique was regarded as the more promising , but the radiometer would have a continuing role to monitor the light intensity .
20 You will have a proactive role to play and need to advise your employer on all new developments in legislation and case law which affect the business and the relevant support services .
21 This may well be possible : there is hardly a field of study in which computers do not have a valuable role to play .
22 That is very different from the approach of the Government , who have not only abandoned a serious commitment to training , but have suggested that sectors do not have a valuable role to play .
23 The playgroup leasers support this petition and say that they would have a valuable role preparing the children for nursery education , feeling that the children at four plus need more than the s playgroup can offer .
24 But , assuming that the formal external information resource does have a significant role to play in helping corporations to achieve viable strategies , the overwhelming message for information providers is that much more effort needs to be put into making that resource — whether in traditional print or in online form — more comprehensible in its overall structure , and easier to access and use in its individual parts , by the non-specialist user .
25 When faced with such happenings as those at Brent , and the perceived attitudes of avant garde librarians that the BL is the answer for every query for books beyond the current hit-list , the British Library , does , clearly , have a vital role to play .
26 This is not the place to explore arguments which characterize the scientific mode of thought as in some sense masculine ( though this may have a vital role to play in our understanding of the science of our culture if it is so : see Kelly et al . ,
27 HMI will still have a vital role to play , despite the remarks of the hon. Member for Blackburn .
28 At this time , the woman may find a purposeful role to play .
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