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

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1 In particular the HMI discuss the role of schools in a changing society , arguing , for example , that schools have a limited role in social change , and rejecting the ‘ curriculum for violent change ’ .
2 According to the WWF , timber importers have a crucial role in attaining the WWF 's 1995 target date for " sustainable timber production " .
3 However , do these platelet-specific proteins have a physiological role in their own right ?
4 Clergy have a prime role in setting up schools and a favoured position of direct relationships with the appropriate state institutions .
5 Medical audit has a key role in negotiating and monitoring standards of asthma care .
6 Unfortunately , the very fact that poetry has a central role in Soviet life means that much of it is conservative in form and predictable in content .
7 Saunders argues that the home has a key role in providing such ontological security , a sense of refuge to which people can retreat and be themselves .
8 He believes that the home has a central role in people 's consciousness , and specifically in their sense of ‘ ontological security ’ .
9 The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market in that it acts as the main banker to both the central government and the clearing banks .
10 During his term of office as provost Councillor Thomson had a major role in attracting the Exacta Electronics firm to the town .
11 Because of their involvement and understanding , engineers have a central role in the control of risk .
12 Consequently , engineers have a primary role in ensuring that the risk management programme itself is managed as effectively as any other business activity .
13 Producers and organisations such as the Guild have a vital role in telling consumers both at home and abroad how good British cheese can be .
14 This form of ‘ observation ’ has very severe limitations not only because the teacher has a principal role in the lesson but because that role is likely to demand almost the whole of the teacher 's attention , particularly at the most important moments .
15 But it can be argued that marketing has a significant role within any social work agency .
16 At the very least TECs have a vital role in researching and developing an operating model for the creation of local education strategies which could bring some strategic order to an otherwise rapidly fragmenting school system .
17 Voluntary organisations have a key role in the total range of provision for adults and are strongly supported in Croydon .
18 Platelets have a central role in normal haemostasis .
19 Banks have a dominant role in most countries ' financial markets .
20 The teacher placement organiser has a varied role within the partnership .
21 The Teacher Placement Service has a key role as any in this .
22 Although the police and Crown Prosecution Service have a vital role in determining which alleged offenders proceed to subsequent stages of the criminal justice system , the most direct and immediate impact on the penal system is exercised by the courts themselves .
23 Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society .
24 But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ?
25 The Heather Collection has a dual role as a window or ‘ in-store ’ display .
26 We compared the magnitude of activation due to the phonological short-term memory task ( remembering letters ) with that of the rhyming task because experimental evidence suggests that the phonological store has a fundamental role in phonological short-term memory , but not in rhyming ( see Fig. 3 legend for details ) .
27 Management has become an whole-school process , entailing that every member of staff has a managerial role of some kind , and it should be approached as such in any INSET or support programmes .
28 This is not hard to do and could be the start of longer term relationships leading to the Book Trade having a central role in retailing the new products .
29 Fourthly , the comprehensive multidisciplinary assessments of individual older people have a key role in the overall evaluation of service provision and in planning for future development .
30 Do hearing people have a significant role in raising the level of deaf people 's lives to help them fit into society better ?
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