Example sentences of "[pers pn] has a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen Annabelle acting in school plays/ at the drama club on many occasions but today she does n't need to act , she has a starring role . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I do n't know what the financial arrangements are but he has a double role , he attends the classes but he also does spinal manipulation and massage for those of Brand 's clients who need it or say they do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It has a symbolic role to play . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It has a wider role to play . |
| 12 | If the NI can do something to focus eyes on a more distant horizon , it has a valuable role . |
| 13 | It has a positive role to play in an organisation , and that role is particularly emphasised in this chapter . |
| 14 | It has a vital role in promoting the use of machine-readable data particularly amongst historians who have hitherto not used this type of material . |