Example sentences of "have an [adj] role to play in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As indicated above , trade now has an acknowledged role to play in Soviet development . |
| 2 | It is the argument of this book , as it is the argument of Bettelheim 's book , that reading has an important role to play in this process of finding meaning . |
| 3 | It is clear that government has an important role to play in this area . |
| 4 | The establishment of a graduate school has an important role to play in this , as does also developing our library in this direction . |
| 5 | Sociology has an important role to play in exploding myths and misconceptions about social phenomena and institutions , and in providing a context in which controversial issues can be examined critically and analytically . |
| 6 | The Careers Service has an important role to play in brokering the jobs on offer to the schools . |
| 7 | We have seen that confirmation has an important role to play in science as interpreted by the sophisticated falsificationist . |
| 8 | The solicitor has an important role to play in the committee process . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the Department of Trade and Industry has an important role to play in creating the right climate for manufacturing industry ? |
| 10 | The honorary colonel system therefore has an important role to play in the British Army . |
| 11 | Although Napoleon was not much use on this occasion , the full-size skeleton has an important role to play in the future . |
| 12 | While not denying that this has an important role to play in any science , it is not clear that it is the method responsible for the discovery of natural laws . |
| 13 | This interest in what is often termed ‘ cultural heritage ’ also involves other studies , such as local history , heraldry and genealogy , but archaeology has an active role to play in providing a coherent picture of our heritage . |
| 14 | The human eye has an active role to play in the story . |
| 15 | Tax havens have traditionally had an important role to play in inbound investment to territories with high withholding tax rates . |
| 16 | Over the years The Trades House has had an important role to play in promoting trade and industry in the city . |
| 17 | Clearly , biotechnology will have an increasing role to play in environmental quality during the next few centuries , especially if existing methodologies can be improved by genetic engineering ( see below ) . |
| 18 | With respect to the individual , foreign language teachers need to know how allegiance to a language is a significant trait in the individual 's personal identity both because this has implications for the degree of acceptance of the foreign language by the learner — whether he/she is a speaker of English only or other languages too — and because the foreign language teacher may well have an advisory role to play in his/her school concerning the place of language and languages in the curriculum in general . |
| 19 | The DoT believes that traffic information broadcasting , and in particular RDS , will have an important role to play in reducing delays and driver frustrations . |
| 20 | As we have seen the magistrates have an important role to play in overseeing the extension of detention beyond thirty-six hours . |
| 21 | Both therefore see special educational provision as having an essential role to play in bringing about changes in mainstream education . |
| 22 | Temporary work seems to have an important role to play in the transition from unemployment to employment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | None the less , Brazil 's debt had an important role to play in creating downward pressure on the currency . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 27 | Such considerations were probably crucial before initiation ritual developed to deal with the conflicts between sons and fathers ; but even after such conflicts had become institutionalized and ritualized neoteny had an important role to play in postponing the age of initiation by opening up that gap in human psycho-sexual development which Freud called the latency period and which , as we shall see , is an important factor in considering the social and mental health of modern societies . |
| 28 | Americans still had an important role to play in war-ravaged Europe in ensuring that Germany did not again threaten the security of Europe , and in being on hand to help counterbalance if necessary the enigmatic and possibly dangerous USSR . |
| 29 | There is much room for improvement and development in online catalogues and librarians have an essential role to play in that development . |
| 30 | Global issues seem far removed from individuals , yet we all have an important role to play in energy efficiency programmes , which offer one approach to dealing with increasing CO2 emissions . |