Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays a key role in keeping city streets on the move and is even the object of the best modern designers ' desire . |
| 2 | Another example is the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers ( which was set up informally , but as a result of prompting from central government , by major City financial institutions ) ; it plays a central role in the regulation of company mergers and takeovers . |
| 3 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |
| 5 | Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement . |
| 6 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development . |
| 7 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development . |
| 8 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development . |
| 9 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development . |
| 10 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development . |
| 11 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the countryside and the amenities of the towns and villages of Wales . |
| 12 | Established in 1928 , it plays a vital role in protecting the country 's coast and countryside , while encouraging sustainable rural development . |
| 13 | The hunt says it plays a vital role in the county 's conservation , and warns that if foxhunting is banned , foxes could become extinct.Chris Moore reports . |
| 14 | The hunt says it plays a vital role in the county 's conservation , and warns that if foxhunting is banned , foxes could become extinct.Chris Moore reports . |
| 15 | But the rector says it plays a vital role . |
| 16 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 17 | ‘ It has a symbolic role to play . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It has a wider role to play . |
| 25 | If the NI can do something to focus eyes on a more distant horizon , it has a valuable role . |
| 26 | It has a positive role to play in an organisation , and that role is particularly emphasised in this chapter . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It advocates a greater role for the International Tropical Timber Organization in promoting sustainable tropical forest management and the expansion of plantations as a replacement for logging natural forest . |
| 29 | And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science . |
| 30 | Thus social policy must be critically evaluated not only for its failure to eradicate poverty among older women ( and , to a lesser extent , men ) , but also because it occupies a central role in producing and legitimating both the poverty of a substantial proportion of older people and the marked inequalities between older women and men . |