Example sentences of "[vb base] a [adj] role [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tactics play a secondary role to board speed ; many a race is won by the sailor who is fast off the line and avoids dirty wind enough to use his speed advantage . |
| 2 | Although techniques such as infrared spectroscopy and atomic spectroscopy are alien in the world of art it is becoming increasingly accepted that scientists have a major role to play in art research . |
| 3 | Several studies have suggested that health visitors have a major role to play in screening and assessing the elderly ( Luker 1988 ; Vetter et al . |
| 4 | While the Action Teams have a major role to play in implementing local initiatives , they are not working on their own , but rather as part of the overall Making Belfast Work strategy . |
| 5 | Although colleges do not award an NVQ themselves , they still have a major role to play in providing the means whereby trainees can gain competence and be assessed in their job . |
| 6 | Parents have a major role to play in getting the message home . |
| 7 | Community pharmacists have a developing role to play in improving prescribing |
| 8 | An effort should be made , however , to make them feel that they still have a strong role to play in your life , and that their opinions are still valued and respected . |
| 9 | ‘ Story ’ , ‘ travel ’ and ‘ journey ’ all blur together , drawing on Federman 's study of Beckett , the title of which is incorporated into this text and into Double Or Nothing , so that once again traces of realistic action have a metaphorical role to play . |
| 10 | We as activists hold very special the important role trade unions have played in the Labour Party and feel that we have a continued role to play . |
| 11 | I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now . |
| 12 | If inadequate men need the fantasy stimulus of a simulated female orgasm in order to perform at all , then perhaps such scenes have a therapeutic role to play in psycho-sexual conditioning . |
| 13 | In my view , scientists have a crucial role to play in the rapprochement of conventional and complementary medicine . |
| 14 | Parents have a crucial role to play in preparing their children for an independent adult life but may in practice unwittingly inhibit that progress . |
| 15 | More important , however , for the analysis of social policy is the interplay between central government and those other organs of government , particularly local government , which have a crucial role to play in the implementation of policy , but are also themselves in certain respects policy makers . |
| 16 | ‘ They have a crucial role to play , ’ he points out . |
| 17 | Although LMS sees LEAs transfer much of their powers , authorities still have a key role to play as the principal source of advice on the complexities of employment law and on fair procedures for appointment , discipline , grievance and dismissal . |
| 18 | Researchers at the Woolwich Centre for Computer Crime Research believe that improved personnel procedures have a key role to play in improving internal controls . |
| 19 | Social workers have a key role to play when someone suspects that a child is being abused . |
| 20 | Bill Clinton is no miracle-worker , but he is much closer to the gut instincts of the majority of Merseysiders , who believe elected leaders have a key role to play in building a fair society . |
| 21 | Offshore centres still have a big role to play . |
| 22 | Both attitudes have a valuable role to play when considering an issue such as how to computerise a major corpus of information which exists in a variety of document types of varying degrees of complexity and intelligibility . |
| 23 | Indeed it is my theme that Utopian " dreams " still have a valuable role to play by bringing the potentials of scientific and technological change into the arena of social and political action . |
| 24 | Just as banks have a vested interest in the growth of their main customers , they have a clear role to play in limiting the damage that recession can bring especially where the failure of a leading company will affect many of their other customers . |
| 25 | Finance experts have a clear role to play , along with accountants , in improving the specification of market attractiveness and competitive strengths . |
| 26 | In short , they have a dual role to perform ( Ruble , 1979 ) in mobilising workers behind production goals , whilst defending those same workers in job-related grievances against unscrupulous administrators and illegitimate managerial practices . |
| 27 | Analysis of competitors and competitive markets is of the utmost importance to each company , and in all six the planning departments have a significant role to play in this analysis . |
| 28 | Be that as it may , the intuitive reality of such structures is borne out also by the fact that generations of language teachers have recognized that they have a leading role to play in the initial stages of learning , because of what I have called their valency or combining power . |
| 29 | And his circle , his generation , have a leading role to play in the establishment of a popular universe . |
| 30 | They have a vital role to ensure all the major strands of thought , of opinion , of policy are fairly covered . |