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 . |