Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] role [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | When two families start living together for whatever reason , everyone has a new role to play and , until new house rules have been established , the children are bound to feel insecure , jealous and anxious . |
2 | To change this , communication has a decisive role to play . ’ |
3 | Iron has a crucial role to play in the efficient working of the human body and is vital to healthy living . |
4 | The GP has a crucial role to play in the development of health services . |
5 | The Report of the Swann Committee in 1985 added weight to the widely held view that in Britain 's culturally and racially pluralistic society the education system has a crucial role to play in promoting racial harmony . |
6 | Manchester Computing Centre has a crucial role to play in the care of the datasets . |
7 | The voluntary sector though , has a greater role to play now than ever before , both as advocate and service provider . |
8 | ‘ It has a symbolic role to play . ’ |
9 | Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard . |
10 | The French tyre manufacturer has a key role to play in the Bugatti , and is developing the world 's first ultra-high performance tyre specifically for four-wheel drive supercars . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | There is obviously much uncertainty in these broad generalizations , but geomorphic evidence has a key role to play in relating such global tectonic models to the geological history of the continents . |
15 | We believe that N C V O has a key role to play in involving the voluntary sector in representing your concerns . |
16 | The Institute has a key role to play in bringing the expertise of transport professionals to bear on this issue . |
17 | Beyond social contact , the phone has a practical role to play in the lives of working mothers . |
18 | The process of sharing " their " information with others has a constructive role to play . |
19 | It has a wider role to play . |
20 | If we are to produce a genuinely participative and educated democracy then adult education — untrammelled by ‘ establishment ideology ’ — has a central role to play . |
21 | We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand . |
22 | We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand . |
23 | Dr Sherlock concluded that irradiation has a useful role to play in the preservation of foods in conjunction with other currently employed processes . |
24 | Video has a useful role to play in " interpretations of history " ( Attainment Target 2 in the National Curriculum for history ) . |
25 | ‘ 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 . |
26 | The headteacher has a major role to play in encouraging governors to adopt a response to the staffing responsibilities of LMS which values people and ensures the successful development of the school . |
27 | Given that object recognition is a categorical process , in that one does n't recognize each individual chair one sees but identifies it as belonging to the same category as other chairs one has seen , this suggests that the inferotemporal cortex has a major role to play in object recognition . |
28 | Every single person in his organization has a major role to play in pleasing the customer and they know it , and do it . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |