Example sentences of "[vb mod] have a [adj] role " in BNC.

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1 The LEA English adviser should have a co-ordinating role to ensure liaison between feeder primary schools and their secondary schools .
2 Following the Harmel Report members agreed that NATO should have a political role , negotiating for détente with the eastern bloc , as well as its traditional defence role .
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 Syria says the UN should have a starring role at any conference .
5 She should have an important role in supporting her daughter , when her support will hasten progress , and help to protect Mark .
6 Accepting that meals are a very important part of a person 's life-style means that their timing might have an important role in adjusting the body clock .
7 Local education authority officers could have a central role in helping managers in schools and colleges make decisions , rather than the previous role of making decisions for them .
8 The mentor system could have a dual role , benefiting both students and less experienced practitioners , who could share in the learning experience it offers .
9 The authors argue that ‘ gastrin in fetal juice could have a unique role in the in utero development of the gastrointestinal tract ’ .
10 However , Friends of the Earth , whilst supporting the setting up of a European Environment Agency , suggested that an inspectorate attached to the European Commission could have an investigative role in member countries .
11 If ever emigres were to be welcomed back , as is suddenly the case in Czechoslovakia , he could have an important role in economic planning .
12 With the development of an increased awareness of the importance of financial management they could have an important role in undertaking a full accounts and forward budgeting programme .
13 The godparent may have a ritual role to the child , such as participating in his wedding ceremony , and taking on certain responsibilities regarding his religious education , but the relationship that is strongest and requires respect , warmth and the obligation to help at all times , is the one between parents and godparents .
14 In view of the suggestion that FAEEs may have a pathophysiological role via their effect on lipid metabolism and their incorporation into cell membranes , the gene encoding FAEE synthase , when it is identified , would seem to be another ‘ candidate gene ’ worthy of study in relation to alcoholic liver disease .
15 Also Wallace and keenan have reported that intracolonic administration of platelet activating factor may have a protective role in the gastrointestinal tract in animals .
16 We also agree that hysteroscopic biopsy may have a useful role to play in the investigation of these patients .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The potential pathogenicity of free radicals has been emphasised by recent work which suggests that reactive oxygen metabolities are not just one of a number of mediators and cytokines involved in the inflammatory process in inflammatory bowel disease but may have a pivotal role by initiating the expression of genes controlling may other aspects of the inflammatory , immune , and acute phase response , by activation of the transcription factor NF-kΒ .
20 So the endothelins may have a major role in atherosclerosis and the reocclusion that often follows surgical opening of occluded arteries .
21 The strong association between antral tumours and chronic active gastritis suggests the possibility that H pylori infection may have a pathogenic role .
22 They called this the activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process , and suggested that dreaming sleep may have a functional role in some aspect of the learning process .
23 Within a reasonable period after the end of the year covered by the accounts , those accounts may have a dominant role .
24 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 . ,
25 Training may have an important role here .
26 Once a child has been placed , workers will need to be guided by the new parents and the child about the how and the when of contact and , of course , once adoption or custodianship orders are made , social workers no longer have the right to give directions , although they may have an important role , when asked , in providing a conciliation service between custodians or adopters and natural parents , if there are disagreements about contact .
27 The rise in eicosanoid inflammatory mediators may have an important role in the pathophysiology of the early radiation bowel reaction .
28 The existing complaints department would have a new role directly investigating complaints by telephone , correspondence and , if necessary , face-to-face interviews .
29 The Secretary of State for the Environment argued , however , that the voluntary sector would have a genuine role to play ( Shore , 1978 ) .
30 It is arguable that more recently retired business men would have a constructive role to play .
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