Example sentences of "they have a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |
| 2 | Experience of wartime administration persuaded Labour leaders that they had a responsible role to play in a new economic system which had successfully revealed the inadequacies of laissez faire capitalism , while among the working-class electorate a sense of the potential of a new social order in the postwar period took root . |
| 3 | ‘ They have a crucial role to play , ’ he points out . |
| 4 | At acute angioplasty or similar , they have a definite role and are important in avoiding the situation Dr Nagle referred to earlier . |
| 5 | CAB advice workers , used to seeking a practical solution to clients ' problems , now find that they have a new role . |
| 6 | Management development and training may be needed to support change , but they have a supporting role . |
| 7 | Every child is special , every child should feel they have a special role in the drama , that their presence or absence will affect what happens in the drama . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here when they 're talking about women , I think James was right , women do have a vital role at the beginning in all cultures , what I 'm trying to say is that they have a vital role increasingly as they become more and more educated too . |
| 11 | They have a vital role to ensure all the major strands of thought , of opinion , of policy are fairly covered . |
| 12 | In fact , he says , they are rule governed and functional : ‘ In informal conversation they have a proper role , as they are one of the main means language has of expressing the various alterations in the force and direction of argument that we find ourselves using ’ ( Crystal , 1976 , p. 24 ) . |
| 13 | Emergency admissions will require particular care if parents are to be reassured from the outset that they have a continuing role in their child 's life ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Try to ensure that every child feels they have an essential role in the drama , that they have opportunities to make decisions and influence outcomes . |
| 16 | If they fulfil needs in their members not met by the formal structure of work , then they have an important role in preventing frustration and resentment . |
| 17 | That they have an important role to play is already clear in certain areas , such as special education . |
| 18 | They have an important role to play in sessions designed to introduce young people to issues of health and safety , rights and equal opportunities at work . |
| 19 | The facilities are here , they have an important role and when one is looking open-mindedly — and systematically at a teaching problem one can not possibly ignore them . |
| 20 | These fast update mechanisms may be referred to as the hold and terminate facilities and they have an important role in eliminating the drudgery of recruitment administration . |
| 21 | I agree with him that they have an important role to play in a fully integrated service for mentally ill people , but the House would mislead itself if it believed that those mentally ill people who find themselves on the streets are drawn from those patients who have been discharged from long-term care in hospitals . |
| 22 | They have an independent role , akin to that of a referee … |
| 23 | Those who oppose the ordination of women believe that God intends them to have a different role in the Church from men — though an equally valid one . |