Example sentences of "may have a [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also Wallace and keenan have reported that intracolonic administration of platelet activating factor may have a protective role in the gastrointestinal tract in animals . |
| 4 | We also agree that hysteroscopic biopsy may have a useful role to play in the investigation of these patients . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So the endothelins may have a major role in atherosclerosis and the reocclusion that often follows surgical opening of occluded arteries . |
| 9 | The strong association between antral tumours and chronic active gastritis suggests the possibility that H pylori infection may have a pathogenic role . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Within a reasonable period after the end of the year covered by the accounts , those accounts may have a dominant role . |
| 12 | 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 . , |