Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] role [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Nor does it immediately show us how this approach allots a special role to the economy , since the dominant contradiction of a society may be a feature of any practice at all , and may change with circumstances . |
2 | In this sense it has a similar role to that of the Office of Fair Trading in relation to UK competition rules such as the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , although in a number of respects and in particular in so far as the Commission has the power to take binding decisions , its powers are more extensive than the Office of Fair Trading . |
3 | The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market in that it acts as the main banker to both the central government and the clearing banks . |
4 | The aim of this study is to investigate whether a subclinical impairment of the autonomic nervous system is present in patients with slow transit idiopathic constipation , and whether it has a possible role in the pathogenesis of this motility disorder . |
5 | The headteacher has a crucial role in not only convincing the staff of the importance of marketing but in actually getting them to do something about it . |
6 | Indications are that costs will compare favourably with , for instance , the cost of a bed in a private nursing home ; additional benefits of a local authority specialist unit may be the ability to provide services such as carers ' support , home care , day care , despite staff training to maximise the use of staff and buildings It is always more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive services but the higher cost of specialist provision may be offset if it has a preventive role in the wider community . |
7 | The Teacher Placement Service has a key role as any in this . |
8 | It is not surprising to find , therefore , that the womb has a key role in many religious teachings . |
9 | The second messenger InsP 3 has a key role in controlling both the mobilization of internal stores and the entry of external calcium . |
10 | Dreaming has a key role in psychoanalytic theory . |
11 | Medical audit has a key role in negotiating and monitoring standards of asthma care . |
12 | Saunders argues that the home has a key role in providing such ontological security , a sense of refuge to which people can retreat and be themselves . |
13 | LOCAL government has a key role in making the world a better place , according to a Middlesbrough council official . |
14 | It has a distinctive role in Croydon , quite separate from the large further and higher education college and yet there is still considerable collaboration with many joint projects and attention to progress routes into further education and beyond . |
15 | Thus the carboxy-terminus domain has a definite role in pRB-mediated repression of E2 transcription which might also explain why extensive homology has been maintained among the peptide sequences of rat and two other ( human and mouse ) known RB proteins . |
16 | It seems , though people would rather not see it put into combat , the army has a definite role in the modern civilisation . |
17 | Percutaneous cholecystolithotomy is a safe , non-operative treatment for symptomatic gall stones and enabled the patient to fully recover within two to three weeks ; it has a definite role in the management of the elderly and high risk patient but its use for the treatment of ther groups is likely to remain controversial . |
18 | Overseas , the education officer has a wider role in revision courses and often deals with marketing , premises and accommodation for lecturers sent from the UK . |
19 | This effect , of course , has a complex role in the circulation of money , power and sexuality , but its direct role is that the spectator say : I want the cinema experience again . |
20 | All staff , not just the ‘ managers ’ , need skills if they are to participate successfully in delegated or collegial management and decision-making , since every person in such contexts has a managerial role of some kind . |
21 | Management has become an whole-school process , entailing that every member of staff has a managerial role of some kind , and it should be approached as such in any INSET or support programmes . |
22 | Unfortunately , the very fact that poetry has a central role in Soviet life means that much of it is conservative in form and predictable in content . |
23 | It is clear that SCOTVEC has a central role in helping to meet these needs . |
24 | He believes that the home has a central role in people 's consciousness , and specifically in their sense of ‘ ontological security ’ . |
25 | This form of ‘ observation ’ has very severe limitations not only because the teacher has a principal role in the lesson but because that role is likely to demand almost the whole of the teacher 's attention , particularly at the most important moments . |
26 | It seems the musky , pheromone-based odour has a useful role in board meetings . |
27 | More recently he has turned up in The Fisher King and At Play in the Fields of the Lord , and he has a small role in Coppola 's forthcoming Dracula . |
28 | Adequate supply of vitamin A , either through supplementation or adequate diet , has a major role in preventing morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries . |
29 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
30 | The Bank has a major role in the foreign exchange market as it is responsible for carrying out government policy with regard to the exchange rate . |