Example sentences of "have a [adj] role to play " in BNC.

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1 When two families start living together for whatever reason , everyone has a new role to play and , until new house rules have been established , the children are bound to feel insecure , jealous and anxious .
2 To change this , communication has a decisive role to play . ’
3 Iron has a crucial role to play in the efficient working of the human body and is vital to healthy living .
4 The GP has a crucial role to play in the development of health services .
5 The Report of the Swann Committee in 1985 added weight to the widely held view that in Britain 's culturally and racially pluralistic society the education system has a crucial role to play in promoting racial harmony .
6 Manchester Computing Centre has a crucial role to play in the care of the datasets .
7 ‘ It has a symbolic role to play . ’
8 Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard .
9 The French tyre manufacturer has a key role to play in the Bugatti , and is developing the world 's first ultra-high performance tyre specifically for four-wheel drive supercars .
10 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 .
11 The chemist has a key role to play in protecting resources , health and the environment , and also preventing the ‘ dumping ’ in developing countries of chemicals rejected as too dangerous for use in the industrial world .
12 The financial controller has a key role to play in facilitating this learning process by improving the way in which the cost-accounting system reveals what really are the cost-drivers ( i.e. the factors really leading to the incidence of specific types of costs ) .
13 There is obviously much uncertainty in these broad generalizations , but geomorphic evidence has a key role to play in relating such global tectonic models to the geological history of the continents .
14 We believe that N C V O has a key role to play in involving the voluntary sector in representing your concerns .
15 The Institute has a key role to play in bringing the expertise of transport professionals to bear on this issue .
16 Beyond social contact , the phone has a practical role to play in the lives of working mothers .
17 The process of sharing " their " information with others has a constructive role to play .
18 If we are to produce a genuinely participative and educated democracy then adult education — untrammelled by ‘ establishment ideology ’ — has a central role to play .
19 We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand .
20 We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand .
21 Dr Sherlock concluded that irradiation has a useful role to play in the preservation of foods in conjunction with other currently employed processes .
22 Video has a useful role to play in " interpretations of history " ( Attainment Target 2 in the National Curriculum for history ) .
23 ‘ I know that people are not going out of their way to create problems but I believe the national side has a great role to play in terms of providing players with status , confidence and a substantially increased market value .
24 The headteacher has a major role to play in encouraging governors to adopt a response to the staffing responsibilities of LMS which values people and ensures the successful development of the school .
25 Given that object recognition is a categorical process , in that one does n't recognize each individual chair one sees but identifies it as belonging to the same category as other chairs one has seen , this suggests that the inferotemporal cortex has a major role to play in object recognition .
26 Every single person in his organization has a major role to play in pleasing the customer and they know it , and do it .
27 In this context formal taxation of costs on the standard basis has a major role to play , though in minor cases costs may be agreed between the parties without the need for taxation .
28 The chemical industry 's ‘ Responsible Care ’ programme has a major role to play in demonstrating that the industry is serious in its intent to perform better .
29 In this larger social setting each adolescent has a particular role to play and is usually aware of their own status within the group .
30 ‘ Although I would say that it 's primarily in the interest of that segment of business itself , ’ said , general manager and deputy treasurer of the Bank of Scotland , ‘ everyone has a complementary role to play ’ .
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