CRUCIAL

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a critical/crucial moment (= a very important moment )

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This was a critical moment in the country’s history.

a critical/crucial stage (= very important because it affects the future success of something )

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The football season is reaching a crucial stage.

a crucial/critical element (= extremely important and necessary )

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The most crucial element of our economic system is the law of supply and demand.

a key/crucial factor (= a very important factor )

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A key factor in a company’s success is knowing its customers.

a vital/crucial/essential role

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Every member of the team has a vital role to play.

an important/crucial distinction

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There is an important distinction between these two types of cancer.

an important/crucial match

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Luckily, all their players are fit for such an important match.

an important/significant/crucial difference

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A study of the two groups of students showed a significant difference.

vital/crucial/critical importance (= very great )

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This research is of vital importance.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

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This means that the data analysis stage is as crucial as the implementation stage of the computer applications.

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No other factor appears to me to be as crucial as the presence or absence of this.

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The problem of the observer is as crucial in biology as it is in physics.

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Not nearly as crucial , but every bit as entertaining: Cultivate a talent.

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The establishment of personal relationships was not as crucial during the study of the known sector where informants had been randomly sampled.

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Which is why the front office felt it was just as crucial to find another dependable reliever as it was another starter.

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But lie still regarded the result as crucial and in no way retreated from his new-found determination to fight.

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Nevertheless, the role of the teacher is recognised as crucial .

more

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A more crucial issue concerns the use of the technology by other firms and organisations that have nothing to do with electronics.

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Which was more crucial for infant development?

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They must naturally be pursued, but always giving counsellees the opportunity to move on to other, more crucial issues.

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But even more crucial is the attitude and behaviour of those who govern us.

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But what was more crucial was the fact that the crowds turned out - as did the record companies.

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The military was more crucial in terms of political control than the railwaymen.

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A less noticeable but ultimately more crucial problem was a general decline in profitability.

most

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It was precisely during these remote and largely unrecorded periods that some of the most crucial changes took place.

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Involved in constant travel during that most crucial year, I called some friends.

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And his reaction was, I think, the first self-defining move of his life - and undoubtedly the most crucial .

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The effectivity of the duty to disarm is probably the most crucial issue in international law and international relations of this era.

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Perhaps the most crucial recommendation is that relating to the funding that will be available for community care after April 1993.

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One of the most crucial features of the model we are describing is the occurrence of feedback.

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Because the most crucial lesson in Durban was that this tragedy is preventable.

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Notably, Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts play themselves in some of the most crucial scenes.

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Here the missing link is frequently the directly observed contextual detail which is so crucial in anthropological field work.

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This is another reason why the primary in South Carolina is so crucial .

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Sometimes the bevel elbow is so crucial , it makes certain cuts impossible.

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One of the many important churches which are often so crucial in forming the townscape we see about us?

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Since these behavioural data are so crucial to interpreting the physiological findings they will repay careful scrutiny.

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For example, virtually all of the new databases which are so crucial for accessing research are Western orientated and owned.

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This partly helps to explain why their partner's support is so crucial to them.

■ NOUN

area

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In the crucial areas of international relations the state still dominates and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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There are no social class differences in this crucial area .

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A crucial area of potential conflict is between safety and other objectives such as output or the saving of cost and time.

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Without these crucial areas of explanation, her theory of how innovations occur or do not occur seems remarkably fragile.

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The relationship of Christology to New Testament study has remained a crucial area of study and debate.

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However when we had a crucial area such as the future of Church Relations, decisions seem to have been taken.

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In fact this is one of the most crucial areas of disagreement between them.

aspect

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A crucial aspect of the productive process is the division of labour into restricted tasks.

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We all feel we have a self, and we suspect that it is a crucial aspect of being human.

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In the next chapter we turn to this crucial aspect of archaeology.

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Inequalities of use in the crucial aspects of schooling have changed very little over the years.

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As we have seen, the sense of territory is a crucial aspect of this behaviour.

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A crucial aspect of a child's interests is thus ignored.

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And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business.

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What is more, emotions are a crucial aspect of how we create our reality.

decision

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Deciding where to live Of course one of the most crucial decisions to make when retiring alone is where to live.

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The crucial decisions about distribution of goods are made by those with power in the political system.

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Width, depth and height were crucial decisions .

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The people closest to the students thus make the crucial decisions about teaching and learning.

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Choice One of the crucial decisions , now, is whether to teach a subject discretely, or to integrate.

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By its very nature, adjudication entails crucial decisions about the allocation of values and meanings for a society.

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It was a crucial decision and town planning in Britain was immeasurably influenced by it.

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Really though, this is nothing to be scared of-you made your crucial decision long ago.

difference

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There is, however, a crucial difference .

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Sometimes this makes a crucial difference in how well the medical program works.

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Nevertheless, there is a crucial difference between the cognitive approach and that of social representations.

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Still there were crucial differences in this small sample of factories.

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A crucial difference of interpretation lies here.

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This is a crucial difference from the way the hormone affects the body.

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The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element, while Weber emphasised the second.

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Sometimes this makes a crucial difference .

element

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Nussbaum's drumming is a crucial element , providing colour and definition in this compelling session.

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The wise use of time can be a crucial element in other ways.

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Nursing practice forms an integral part of learning to nurse and is a crucial element in nursing studies.

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The crucial element missing from the economic engine is demand, some savvy analysts in Tokyo say.

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In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.

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Except the crucial element is missing in the plans -- manufacturing.

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Like her, he has done so by detaching crucial elements from his predecessor's constituency and annexing them to his own.

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The crucial element for Hilton is the reorientation of the will.

factor

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The crucial factor in these committees was the presence on them of members and officers together.

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As I have thought about this part of the puzzle it has become clear to me that there are two crucial factors .

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The crucial factor was the identity of your parents.

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A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family.

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It is the combination of different roles within a team that seems a crucial factor in its success.

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Maximum use of valuable real estate here became the crucial factor in station-building.

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Job satisfaction is commonly a crucial factor in a decision not to aim high.

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There is also a problem in delineating this sector since self-employment is considered such a crucial factor .

importance

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The market is of crucial importance for efficiency, but the control of inflation is a separate problem.

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Or, does it encapsulate a mystery of crucial importance for the dying to contemplate?

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The distinction between names and descriptions remains thus of crucial importance .

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Thus the study of the political world is of crucial importance to the creation of humane social life.

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It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin.

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Not many more offer Arabic, whose crucial importance is even more evident.

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A woman abandoned by her husband found her wage of new and crucial importance and looked to the union for support.

issue

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The effectivity of the duty to disarm is probably the most crucial issue in international law and international relations of this era.

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By and large, the inadequacies and limitations of these science and technology policy-making bodies is equally handicapped by many crucial issues .

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These negative attitudes permeate decisions about crucial issues such as the allocation of resources, particularly the resources of skilled and experienced staff.

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Without their work, we might not be able to explain crucial issues like tuna.

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At one time winning the vote seemed to be the crucial issue .

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He sometimes has to dissemble in order to prevail on crucial issues .

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The crucial issue is proof the standard treatments have been subjected to rigorous examination to check that they are effective.

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Now V. appeared to be swaying Chiang on the crucial issue of Stilwell.

moment

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At times, the book jumps from place to place in a jarring way, only to fragment at crucial moments .

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The piece captures the band at a crucial moment in their rise to the status of phenomenon.

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Some one came along at the crucial moment to pay that tax for him when he refused to do so.

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It was a most crucial moment .

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He can move from place to place through the air at crucial moments , supposedly by inspiration of divine spirit.

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At crucial moments Churchill swung his weight behind the Keynesian approach.

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It acknowledges the weaknesses which Gore as a candidate displayed at crucial moments .

part

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There is also a considerable amount of evidence to indicate that patients themselves see communication as a crucial part of their care.

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The master boot record is a crucial part of the hard drive.

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More importantly, this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society.

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Well, not the whole brain, but crucial parts of it.

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The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.

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Commercially available since 1965, communications satellites are a crucial part of the global communications infrastructure.

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Judgements are a crucial part of knowledge, learning and any educational process.

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The other crucial part is formalized child care.

point

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There are two crucial points to note in Wallman's remarks.

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Both sides made various concessions, but neither would back down on the crucial points .

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That is the crucial point about this amazing monarchy, with its ridiculous assumptions about itself.

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A crucial point about epidemics is that not all members of a given population behave in a uniform way.

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These quick distinctions are prologue to a crucial point .

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The crucial point in this case is that it is no longer possible to reproduce the integrated equilibrium through trade.

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Firstly, I understand that you must edit letters, but the crucial point on avoiding sexist language was omitted.

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This is a crucial point reflected in the contrasting views of the role of the state discussed earlier in this chapter.

question

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Aware as I went she had dodged the crucial question .

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Yet this, surely, is a crucial question .

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The Act did not provide a clear answer to this crucial question and it depended very much on the courts.

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The crucial question here is what makes individuals receptive or resistant to racist ideas.

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A crucial question now is how the mood of the Parliamentary Conservative party has moved since that date.

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The crucial question for Henzler is which of these capitalist systems will give its people the best quality of life.

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We move on to examine this crucial question .

role

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But certain individuals clearly played crucial roles and it meant names had to be mentioned.

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The mutual recognition of ministers and members that is inherent in all union schemes plays a crucial role here.

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Notice the crucial role that prices play in this remarkable result.

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Might not some essential aspects of quantum theory also be playing crucial roles in the physics that underlies our thought processes?

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We want to see better trained teachers, respected for their professionalism and rewarded for their crucial role in the community.

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But recently it has been learned that adenosine plays a crucial role in setting the overall arousal level of the brain.

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Clearly, one's state of mind can also play a crucial role in the health of one's heart.

stage

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This was a crucial stage in the main plot.

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We have arrived at the sixth crucial stage in the evolution of life.

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If you do have doubts and problems about the job these should be discussed privately before things reach a crucial stage .

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All these constraints form the third crucial stage of the evolution of life on earth.

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Smyth will miss at least two All Ireland league games at a crucial stage of the season.

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This is the fifth crucial stage in the evolution of life.

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The crucial stage was not the introduction of the project but its establishment once these strains began to tell.

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The negotiations with the Soviets are at a crucial stage , and nothing must be allowed to threaten those talks.

step

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This process of elaborating a concept and moving toward empirical indicators is the crucial step in variable analysis.

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I am saying, however, that Macintosh was the crucial step , the turning point.

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But the crucial step is to take responsibility for that belief.

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Too often, uninformed adults discount and dismiss all the crucial steps children take en route to becoming independent readers.

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In understanding brains, some of the crucial steps have been technical.

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It is here that Aspect has taken a crucial step with his latest experiment.

test

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Nevertheless, the crucial test must be whether further research along similar lines duplicates these findings.

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The Division had passed the most crucial test .

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That was a crucial test of his nerve.

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The rash of Republican debates will be a crucial test for McCain's insurgent candidacy.

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His crucial test will be the ferocity of his assault on spending.

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The crucial test question to ask is: Could I measure the extent of this undesired behaviour if I wanted to?

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The most crucial test of this was at a standing stone at Kintraw, Argyll.

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He said that the country had surmounted a crucial test when price controls were lifted for most goods in January.

time

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These, or a hundred other weaknesses or incompatibilities in computer systems, create information bottlenecks at crucial times .

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This weakened the Section's influence at a crucial time and correspondingly strengthened the hand of the Treasury.

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The nomination comes at a crucial time in her life.

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Probably the most crucial times in sea kayaking are launching and landing.

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Bagshaw thought - will my bosses blame me for letting this man go at what is approaching a crucial time ?

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Their farms could not be left unattended at this crucial time .

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Although they battled strongly throughout the game they lost too many counts at crucial times .

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They fail to keep him informed, and to advise at crucial times , such as takeovers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Crucial decisions had to be made, involving millions of dollars.

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Learning to work together is a crucial part of the training program.

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The crucial factor in their relationship was their unshakeable faith in each other.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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A close working relationship is crucial if policy is to develop smoothly and clearly.

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But even more crucial is the attitude and behaviour of those who govern us.

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Ritchey worked for some very good bosses, but it was the difficult boss who had a crucial impact on his career.

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Shared language is now substantial, religious differences are not crucial , and ethnic and cultural distinctions have diminished.

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The rate your company pays you could have crucial tax implications for you.

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The statement of purpose is crucial to the project planning simply because every method and procedure flows from it.

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Their development is thus crucial to potential profitability.

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This was a crucial stage in the main plot.