Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [art] [adj] role " in BNC.

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1 The LEA English adviser should have a co-ordinating role to ensure liaison between feeder primary schools and their secondary schools .
2 Following the Harmel Report members agreed that NATO should have a political role , negotiating for détente with the eastern bloc , as well as its traditional defence role .
3 This fact , linked to the evidence that a high proportion of defective issues are suffering from use-related types of damage — such as detached boards and loose pages — points very strongly to the conclusion that the routine vetting of material supplied to readers should have a major role to play in the selection of items for repair and refurbishment .
4 Syria says the UN should have a starring role at any conference .
5 She should have an important role in supporting her daughter , when her support will hasten progress , and help to protect Mark .
6 Accepting that meals are a very important part of a person 's life-style means that their timing might have an important role in adjusting the body clock .
7 Local education authority officers could have a central role in helping managers in schools and colleges make decisions , rather than the previous role of making decisions for them .
8 The mentor system could have a dual role , benefiting both students and less experienced practitioners , who could share in the learning experience it offers .
9 The authors argue that ‘ gastrin in fetal juice could have a unique role in the in utero development of the gastrointestinal tract ’ .
10 However , Friends of the Earth , whilst supporting the setting up of a European Environment Agency , suggested that an inspectorate attached to the European Commission could have an investigative role in member countries .
11 If ever emigres were to be welcomed back , as is suddenly the case in Czechoslovakia , he could have an important role in economic planning .
12 With the development of an increased awareness of the importance of financial management they could have an important role in undertaking a full accounts and forward budgeting programme .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Also Wallace and keenan have reported that intracolonic administration of platelet activating factor may have a protective role in the gastrointestinal tract in animals .
16 We also agree that hysteroscopic biopsy may have a useful role to play in the investigation of these patients .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 So the endothelins may have a major role in atherosclerosis and the reocclusion that often follows surgical opening of occluded arteries .
21 The strong association between antral tumours and chronic active gastritis suggests the possibility that H pylori infection may have a pathogenic role .
22 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 .
23 Within a reasonable period after the end of the year covered by the accounts , those accounts may have a dominant role .
24 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 . ,
25 They must also ensure that educational adaptation corresponds to local circumstances rather than simply to national value systems which may have no positive role in helping people to develop their own resources .
26 Training may have an important role here .
27 Once a child has been placed , workers will need to be guided by the new parents and the child about the how and the when of contact and , of course , once adoption or custodianship orders are made , social workers no longer have the right to give directions , although they may have an important role , when asked , in providing a conciliation service between custodians or adopters and natural parents , if there are disagreements about contact .
28 The rise in eicosanoid inflammatory mediators may have an important role in the pathophysiology of the early radiation bowel reaction .
29 The existing complaints department would have a new role directly investigating complaints by telephone , correspondence and , if necessary , face-to-face interviews .
30 The Secretary of State for the Environment argued , however , that the voluntary sector would have a genuine role to play ( Shore , 1978 ) .
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