Example sentences of "[noun] a role " in BNC.

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1 It is no good giving the United Nations a role and wanting it to carry out these measures on our behalf but not giving it the means to do so .
2 The prince for his part seems to be working on a deal to give the Khmers Rouges a role in the political system .
3 They claim that Prince Sihanouk has offered the Khmers Rouges a role in the future government of Cambodia , in return for a promise not to disrupt the election .
4 The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters .
5 This updated to the 1930s translation by Robert Cogo-Fawcett and Braham Murray affords the leading actor a role into which he can sink his theatrical teeth .
6 While Soviet , liberal and libertarian accounts each attribute a role of enormous importance to the intelligenty , they differ profoundly over the significance of that role .
7 So high-tech plays a role .
8 The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished .
9 The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished .
10 What they will do is give the GPs a role to play in allocating resources to the hospital services and will contribute nothing to the delivery of better VFM within the family practitioner services .
11 REJECTED : Spielberg offered Sridevi a role
12 The existence of externalities gives government a role in trying to correct for market failure .
13 Nissan in Britain , however , gives its union a role by holding pay negotiations every two years with no formal industry benchmarks .
14 The former Pakistani Foreign Minister , Agha Shahi , suggested similarly in December 1984 that the strict non-alignment of the countries spanning the Persian Gulf and South Asian regions , together with American willingness to concede the Soviet Union a role in a comprehensive Middle East settlement , might create a situation congenial to the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan .
15 For me , the final proof that mathematics education is by no means neutral came in answer to the question ‘ Has mathematics a role to play in furthering social causes and political understanding ? ’
16 The Second World War gave filmmakers a role , as reporters and commentators on the contemporary situation and providers of entertainments that enabled audiences to deal with their anxieties .
17 Moreover , if the centre parties succeed in breaking through into parliament in large numbers then the prospect of coalition government would be increased and this would give the Crown a role in the making of governments since it would no longer be a simple and automatic matter of sending for the leader of the majority party in the Commons .
18 So he offered Sinatra a role , he accepted and flew into Old Tucson , Arizona in his private jet and did his role in one day .
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