The phrase "a comparable role to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing similarities between positions or functions in different contexts or organizations.
Example: "In our company, the project manager has a comparable role to that of a team leader in other firms."
Alternatives: "an equivalent position to" or "a similar role as".
In other countries, biogas crops have not played a comparable role yet due to their high production cost.
If there isn't a comparable role, Uber will offer relocation to Pittsburgh or a separation package to support the transition.
As for (i), in the neighborhood of baseline conditions, diffusion and clearance appear to play a comparable role, because comparable variations in the scleral diffusion (increase) or scleral clearance (decrease) are required to increase drug peak concentration (notice the slope of the curves in Figure 6).
When the boundary condition is rough, the structural constraint may play a comparable role with fabric evolution, which leads to symmetric cross-shape shear bands.
"Can you imagine a high school teacher of physics or mathematics receiving a paycheck that might be $25,000 a year, as opposed to the $50,000 or $75,000 in a comparable role in business?
Similarly, Mark McKinnon, the Bush media maven who has played a comparable role for Mr. McCain in this campaign, reaffirmed to Evan Smith of Texas Monthly weeks ago that he would not work for his own candidate in a race with Mr. Obama.
Although there are differences in the detail of the precise mechanisms mediating maternal immune tolerance in rodents and humans, the data available to date support the reasonable likelihood of a comparable role for Treg cells in both species.
A comparable role for serotonin has been described [23], and pharmacological studies have linked serotonergic neurotransmission to memory performance [24].
In corn inbred lines stressed with salinity, PAL gene expression elevated transiently, similar to the antioxidant genes expression patterns in these plants, suggesting a comparable role for PAL in decreasing the oxidative stress imposed by salinity [ 57].
We speculate that the FATC domain of Tra1 may directly or indirectly, have a comparable role in determining conformation and that destabilizing this structure would result in enhanced sensitivity to proteolytic cleavage.
