Example sentences of "role play [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In pursuing this aim , IDB 's Marketing Development Division has a key role to play through the wide range of support which it can offer to all sizes of companies in Northern Ireland involved in manufacturing or providing internationally tradeable services . |
| 2 | Although LMS sees LEAs transfer much of their powers , authorities still have a key role to play as the principal source of advice on the complexities of employment law and on fair procedures for appointment , discipline , grievance and dismissal . |
| 3 | In conclusion , the Action Teams can help local groups in a wide variety of ways and while some of the ideas may be criticised , they all have some role to play in the economic regeneration of the area . |
| 4 | The crossing had a vital role to play in the economic regeneration of the region , it argued in a statement , and controversy over the Oxleas link should not delay construction of the bridge itself . |
| 5 | On January 21st President Bush held out an olive branch : some of the Arab countries supporting Iraq , he said , still had an important role to play in the future Middle East . |
| 6 | The District Council considers that the sites may have a role to play in the long-term strategic land reserve , although at this stage as no calculations have been carried out as to the requirements it is difficult to assess what role they might play . |
| 7 | In so doing , we recognise that CCW has a vital role to play in the immediate future , but we also recognise that many other ‘ actors ’ must also play their part in moving Wales towards sustainability . |
| 8 | Iron has a crucial role to play in the efficient working of the human body and is vital to healthy living . |
| 9 | Mr McKiernan believes that this service will have an even more important role to play in the financial services sector in the future . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that the InsP 3 /calcium pathway has any role to play in the rapid signal transfer mediated by ionotropic receptors , but there is growing evidence that many metabotropic receptors employ phosphoinositide-derived signals to modulate both neural activity and the neural plasticity responsible for memory . |
| 11 | As its name implies , the Via Militaris was a major line of communication for the Roman armies defending the eastern frontier , and as a stage in one of the links between Italy and Byzantium it already had an important role to play in the vital intercourse between the eastern and western halves of the empire . |
| 12 | The secure places are fully used , but secure accommodation is an expensive resource and one which has its role to play in the full range of provision . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He soon came to doubt ‘ the optimism of avant-garde movements ’ , abandoning any illusion that art had a vital role to play in the ideological struggle . |
| 15 | The honorary colonel system therefore has an important role to play in the British Army . |
| 16 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 17 | Their religious leaders even had a defined role to play within the Ottoman system . |
| 18 | Lastly one may note the role played by the nervous system in controlling circadian behavioural patterns . |
| 19 | Even if the structural , social roots of liberal weakness are conceded , the traditional liberal interpretation can take refuge in its emphasis on the crucial role played by the key political figure , the Tsar . |
| 20 | Development finance : The Report acknowledged the crucial role played by the international banks in providing loans and export credits to non-oil LDCs . |
| 21 | Our shared experience in that campaign was in marked contrast to the role played by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) who , throughout that campaign , spoke vociferously and vigorously against Britain 's membership of the European Community . |
| 22 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 23 | A second line of inquiry focuses on the role played by the long-term unemployed in the wage bargaining process . |
| 24 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 25 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 26 | Urgently reappraising the crucial role played by the radical Protestants who defied privilege , hierarchy and imperialism , this is an incisive and timely reminder of a hidden but powerful undercurrent in Irish history . |
| 27 | This highlights the key role played by the perfect capital market assumption . |
| 28 | Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ambivalent role played by the magical philosophies of the Renaissance . |
| 29 | There is also great uncertainty about the role played by the Imperial bureaucracy in the 1930s . |
| 30 | We take every opportunity to explain the crucial role played by the Appointed Actuary in the management of the company and to this end have recently published a booklet for non-actuarial directors and other senior managers of life assurance companies summarising the responsibilities and duties . |