noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a central role/part
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The report emphasizes the central role of science in society.
a key role
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Sanders played a key role in the team’s winning season.
a positive role model
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We should provide girls with more positive role models.
a vital role/part
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Nurses play a vital role in hospitals and surgeries.
act a part/role
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She is acting the role of Lady Macbeth six evenings a week.
act a part/role
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Stella felt unnatural in their company, as if she was acting a part.
advisory role/capacity
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He was employed in a purely advisory role.
an active role
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Most men play a less active role in family life than women.
assign sb a task/role
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I’ve been assigned the task of looking after the new students.
assume the role of
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Jim Paton will assume the role of managing director.
cameo role/appearance
caring role
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More men are taking on a caring role .
cast sb in a role/a part/the lead
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The producer finally cast Finsh in the male lead.
cast...in the role of
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Clarke’s trying to cast me in the role of villain here.
dual role/purpose/function
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The bridge has a dual role, carrying both road and rail.
fulfil a role/duty/function etc
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A good police officer is not fulfilling his role if he neglects this vital aspect.
gender roles (= the positions of men and women in society )
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It is a country where gender roles have remained largely unchanged.
interventionist approach/role/policy
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The UN adopted a more interventionist approach in the region.
leadership role
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The US must now take a firm leadership role .
major role/part/factor etc
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Britain played a major role in the negotiations.
perform a function/role
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The two organizations perform similar functions.
pioneering role
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She played a pioneering role in opening higher education to women.
pivotal role
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The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market.
play a crucial role/part in sth
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Parents play a crucial role in preparing their children for adult life.
play a prominent part/role (in sth)
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Mandela played a prominent role in the early years of the ANC.
play a role/part/character etc
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Playing a character so different from herself was a challenge.
play an active role in sth
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Do you play an active role in your community?
played a leading role
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The army played a leading role in organizing the attempted coup.
play/perform an essential role in sth
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Antibiotics play an essential role in controlling infection.
positive role model
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I want to be a positive role model for my sister.
role model (= someone that you try to copy because they have qualities you would like to have )
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Good teachers can act as positive role models .
role model
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I want to be a positive role model for my sister.
role reversal
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Some carers and dependants find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal .
starring role (= the most important part in a film )
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‘The Freshman’ was Brando’s first starring role in ten years.
strengthen the role of sb/sth
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A presidential decree strengthened the role of the Security Council.
stress the role of sb/sth
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In her speech, she stressed the role of parents in preventing youth crime.
subservient role/position
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His wife refused to accept a traditional subservient role.
the changing role of sb
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the changing role of women in society
title role
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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Take an active role in asking for appointments; most kinds of research benefit from discussion at least every month or so.
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None the less, many legislatures continue to have an active and significant role in policy making.
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He believes that the subtle discrimination practised on him resulted from his active role in a North sea safety committee.
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The scholar needs an active role in inquiry.
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They said the board had to take a more active role .
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So I also intend to take an active role speaking around the country.
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Immediately after Dudley's elevation, Gloucester was appointed to the commission of the peace, where he played an active role .
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Active learning roles for pupils, therefore, also mean active assessment roles for pupils.
central
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That is why bread plays such a central role in festivals.
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David Beckham captained the side and played in a central midfield role .
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To Greeley, the central role of a newspaper was that of conscience for its time.
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Both use metaphors that confirm his central role in the proceedings.
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Women played a central role in the economic transformations.
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Banks play a central role as consultants, advisers and agents in acquisition situations.
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Punch played a central role in the evolution of satirical humour and in creating opportunities for the cartoonist and the illustrator.
crucial
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Clearly, within particular realms of human experience they may play crucial roles in assisting individuals and groups to achieve their ends.
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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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They are already playing a crucial role in multimedia design and development.
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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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Clearly, one's state of mind can also play a crucial role in the health of one's heart.
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Work with Royal Logistics Corps plays a crucial role in getting supplies and troops in and out of the war zone.
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Factors such as temperature and acidity play a crucial role in determining how well the process works.
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It has a crucial ideological role that underpins everything else.
dual
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Councillor Tait has now been handed a letter which expresses concern over Mr Gilbert's dual role .
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His decision was made in 1992, when he gave up his brief dual role as publisher.
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In addition to this worry about the dual role , some teachers, and headteachers in particular, doubt the skills and experience of advisers.
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Balancing the dual roles of minister to the world and shepherd to his own flock has taken its toll.
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His Role: Melville has cast Pip in a dual role .
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Investment has a dual role to play within any economy.
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Coach Mike Sherman will take over in a dual role after Wolf's last day on June 1.
great
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Therefore we need to study in greater depth the role played by television and other visual media in contemporary society.
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He was a great role model-he had even clerked for Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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It was to be one of the actor's greatest roles .
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The United States in 1938 saw no pressing need to play any great role in the world.
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Though he undertook a great variety of roles , all were informed at heart with the wisdom of the sad clown.
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The state is given an even greater role than in the developmental model in creating conditions for justice and equality.
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And it had always been one of Gesner's greatest roles .
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Nevertheless, it was radio which played the greatest role in the development of music.
important
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All these factors were to play an important role in the disaster of 1940.
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As on land, local topography plays an important role in affecting the distribution of organisms.
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The Government have an important role in improving vehicle security.
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In particular we saw the important role that peer relationships played.
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As we have seen the magistrates have an important role to play in overseeing the extension of detention beyond thirty-six hours.
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At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role .
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Typology dominated archaeological thinking until the 1950s, and still plays an important role in the discipline.
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Handicapped members, who play an important role in the Rangers, pay no subscription.
key
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The project high-lighted the key role of the expert advisors which are used by farm managers in undertaking their roles.
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Some others holding key roles in a voluntary capacity have experienced unusual pressure.
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It also plays a key role in technical evaluations.
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Leadership plays a key role in the overall levels of motivation and collaboration. 11.
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In this process, the Women' s Cooperative Guild played a key role .
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Poulantzas' explanation gives a key role to the relation between the capitalist state and capitalist ideology.
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Dreaming has a key role in psychoanalytic theory.
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And then midway through the second-half he played a key role in Brian Strain's vital winner.
leading
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This would be her third attempt and I knew she was practising the leading role all the time.
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And his circle, his generation, have a leading role to play in the establishment of a popular universe.
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Second, where change has occurred, particularly at the intraregional scale, migration has played the leading role .
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Joan Collins and Keith Baxter will be playing the leading roles in the play.
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The latter should play a leading role in ensuring these statements are understood by governors and staff.
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He topped the poll for the shadow cabinet elections and played a leading role in the policy review process.
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Marion Tait and Joseph Cipolla dance the leading roles .
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It is crucial to our trade and investment that we continue to play a leading role in the Community.
major
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The internal slave-trade, though much used in abolitionist arguments, seems to have played no major role .
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These figures in turn played a major role in securing the support of Sen.
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Class interests are often regarded as playing a major role in the way political institutions develop.
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The third major role of legislators concerns their interactions with the executive.
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During the tumultuous years that followed, Nottinghamshire was to play a major role in the bitter conflict.
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Gorbachev also was quick to admit that the process of globalization played a major role in cracking open the closed Soviet society.
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Previously Warriors played a major role in the land war in the Gulf.
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It plays a major role in focusing energy in the right areas and on the right subjects.
minor
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In between Kylie had enjoyed success in a few other minor television roles .
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The big Muppet stars are relegated to minor roles and humans take center stage.
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A time when adventure came first and pure athleticism played only a minor role in the great climbing game.
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They include history; but in this chapter it will play only a minor role .
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There were many others playing more minor roles .
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This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling.
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In the realm of secret diplomacy it would appear that public opinion had only a very minor role to play.
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Motor buses occupy a relatively minor role in the period covered by this volume.
new
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Their new role is to challenge conventional wisdom.
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For now, most could not delineate, with any confidence, what their new role entailed.
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Some cats outlasted him and I became their gravedigger - a new role thrust on me.
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Often families, like the patients, floundered in their efforts to adapt to new roles and changed life stories.
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I look forward to working with him in his new role .
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For the first half of the year the managers were, in fact, intent on mastering their new roles .
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Valerie Cass had found a new role to play.
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Getting comfortable in his new role , he played six positions and was a designated hitter in 104 games.
pivotal
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Hoddle's pivotal role in Swindon's sweeper system stifled United's customary flowing football.
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Many of the recipes for braised and grilled dishes employ thyme in a pivotal role .
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The present article starts by highlighting the pivotal role of police results in the criminal process.
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But the private sector had the pivotal role as the provider of jobs and the builder of the new urban resource base.
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Hollandshort, bespectacled and plain-spoken-allows that there was some initial studio skepticism about casting Leigh in the pivotal role .
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Venison plays a pivotal role in our culinary heritage.
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Religious conservatives such as Curry will play a pivotal role in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
positive
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In 1963 Kennedy moved to take a more positive role in the struggle for civil rights.
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Maybe you'd know how to act if you had some more positive role models and some real heroes in your life.
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It has a positive role to play in an organisation, and that role is particularly emphasised in this chapter.
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There was no positive role model to follow, and plenty of negative ones not to follow.
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Thus, a positive , promotional role is given to state welfare, where services are provided as of right to all citizens.
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The post-war period until the late 1970s witnessed governments playing a positive role in stimulating demand through reflation of the economy.
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But how are they to play a more positive role ?
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Pressures are being exerted to give the Community a more positive role in industrial policy.
prominent
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In a few governments have a prominent role .
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Some conservatives complain they are being excluded from prominent convention roles .
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Historically women have played a more prominent role in media education than in any other field of communication studies.
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Modern geologists agree that earthquakes had a prominent role in creating the present spectacle of the valley.
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Guimaraes had emerged from near retirement to play a prominent public role in the process to impeach Collor.
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Attorney General Grant Woods of Arizona has taken a prominent role in that effort, according to participants.
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It was not coincidental that Interministerial Councils played a particularly prominent role in the formulation of economic and financial policy.
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Semantics has not always enjoyed a prominent role in modern linguistics.
significant
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Now, for the first time, fixed though often not very stringent criteria for appointment began to play a significant role .
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The newly disclosed documents contradict White House claims that Mrs Clinton did not play a significant role in the firings.
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Basil Rocke played a highly significant role in the beginning of this transformation of the ethos of the classroom.
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The recession of the early 1990s played a significant role in college enrollment.
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And she came to play a significant role in building his career.
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But does this make it play a less significant role in overcoming his problem?
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Noise and danger resulting from too many vehicles has played a significant role in making inner cities unpleasant places to be.
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In all this, music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations.
social
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Gilligan relates this difference to the differing social roles and relationships of men and women.
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Individuals therefore interact in terms of roles . Social roles regulate and organize behaviour.
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The social work role in relation to the families of residents is considered at the end of this chapter.
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A social role thus involves mutual expectations.
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Other social roles within the Rowdies group were much less easy to isolate.
title
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Carl Lumbly stars in the title role .
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Winningham delivers Oscar-caliber work, too, in the less showy but equally complex and demanding title role .
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It is especially sad to see that happen when the title role is played so superbly by Hopkins.
traditional
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Perhaps Hincmar's silence here was tactful, since Charles the Bald's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles .
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Melanie and Jonathan have fallen into traditional roles without really knowing how it happened. at least on her part.
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Yet these organizations bring women out of the family in ways that do not fundamentally challenge their traditional roles .
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It is they who carry out the traditional infantry role of closing with and destroying the enemy.
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Challenging traditional roles is not easy.
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This was more the case for the partners of older women, who themselves were socialised into more traditional roles .
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For the term indicates nothing less than a complete questioning of the traditional role of local government.
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The most obvious effect was to constrain societies to their traditional role of lending for house purchase.
vital
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The Guinness bid transformed the company into an international giant and Ward had played a vital role in bringing this about.
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Lend-lease support began flowing to Moscow in November 1941, playing a vital role in the Soviet war effort.
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The programme has not recognised the vital role that chemistry plays across most industrial sectors.
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Code-making and code-breaking played a vital role in winning the war.
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Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
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This is where the monetarist assumption of an exogenous money supply plays such a vital role .
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In so doing she demonstrated the vital role of the family in early-modern towns.
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However, this apparent simplicity hides the vital role that friction plays in the process.
■ NOUN
gender
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It is easy to assume that any significant, gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles .
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In times past, our whole social system effectively assigned gender roles at birth.
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The data suggest that gender role is influential.
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We can see, then, that there are many elements and factors in this change in gender roles .
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We need to look, then, for the specific practices that produce gender roles rather than stopping at the roles themselves.
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He clearly portrays the pressures that changing gender roles exert on family life.
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This leads us to ask: what part does unemployment play in gender roles ?
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Since these women too had traditional gender roles , how was their greater use of this vernacular feature to be explained?
lead
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Many local chambers of commerce are already taking a lead role in this process.
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Four actors were initially tested for the lead role of Joe Buck, among whom Michael Sarrazin was first choice.
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The 57-year-old tenor made two mistakes in the lead role of Verdi's Don Carlos.
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Salomon Brothers will take a lead role in the international share offer, the statement said.
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In mainland Britain MI5 now has the lead role in intelligence gathering.
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Could this untried youngster pull off a lead role in a Broadway play? people sitting in on rehearsals asked the director.
leadership
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Other countries were looking to the United States to take a firm leadership role , said one official.
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Heads should therefore still be taking a key leadership role .
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His leadership role was taken from him and he resumed his role as physician.
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The Local Government Act 2000 also gives local authorities the powers they need to take a community leadership role .
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None of them started college expecting or planning to take a leadership role .
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Hence it will be necessary to take account of the structure in determining what leadership role is most appropriate.
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Gradually, team leaders in work-unit teams change to more of a coordination rather than leadership role as the team develops.
model
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Where are the black role models for them to follow?
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Disability aside, one of her top priorities is to be a role model and mentor to aspiring radiologists.
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Having said that my two roles models , if you like, are Jean-Pierre Rives and Michael Jones.
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He should be a role model and provide the proper image to the community and participate in the community.
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He wasn't evil enough to be a role model to us.
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Other women have not had entrepreneurial role models or a history of small-business ownership, the study showed.
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Deborah Harry was a very different kind of role model .
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Atalanta was a role model Amelia could relate to.
play
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Discussion should take place regarding the learning methods, i.e. practical work, discussions, role play , tutorials and individual study.
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Then role play that scene with others from the group.
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We'd done this lots of times, role play , in Soc.
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Alter each role play , have group members provide feedback on what the person did well and what aspects need improvement.
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Then the role play can be pursued as in any of 1 to 3 above.
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Units comprise discussion, reading, role play , writing assignment, vocabulary building, practice in points of grammar.
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Eight existing modules are being revised and two new ones are being developed in video production and role play .
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Practise use of skills in role play .
■ VERB
act
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They will act in a facilitating role to help in focusing on more general social and economic need.
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But men do not feature prominently as family members acting in their familial role .
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The company secretarial department of the firm can and have acted in this role on occasions.
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Crowe brings much more than acting to the role .
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How have the parents acted as role models?
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Hunters might seek to kill them, but they are quite capable of turning the tables and acting out the agent role .
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You may act as a role model and a mentor to others.
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Magistrates are also reported to want to reconstruct the raid using volunteers to act out the roles .
assign
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You've assigned me the role of heartless villain financier, obsessed with money, wealth, and luxury.
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They will be divided into teams and assigned civic roles .
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Aristotle never explicitly assigned comedy an inferior role to that of tragedy.
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If your child is playing Nintendo ask if you might play together and let him assign you to your role .
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I was struck by his great attention to detail and how systematically he assigned roles .
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Yet their assigned role is also in conflict with their desire for a professional identity.
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In the literatures of both cultures, the daughter has been assigned the role of passionate witness.
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Harte also interrogates the sentimental by assigning Ken tuck the role of camp spokesman.
assume
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Margaret Bondfield joined the guild in 1911 and with Llewellyn Davies assumed a critical role in reform of health and maternity policy.
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He had been to school one day and already he was using phrases and assuming roles that belonged to a different world.
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The book assumes the role of the most patient instructor.
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Unlucky-looking people made them uneasy and even tempted some to assume the role of misfortune.
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Better therefore to try to anticipate such a calamity by assuming the role of an active and vigilant peace-maker.
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On the evening of the first full rehearsal she is again pressured into assuming a role .
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However, in order to do this, it follows that you must be versatile and able to assume many different roles .
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Both could assume roles on the new cable network.
cast
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The Falcons have been cast in the role of curtain-raisers and will open the show on both days.
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Deronda resents being cast in the role of listener and mentor.
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In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model.
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Once cast in the role of Guardian of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, a scientist ceases to be scientific.
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After all Meredith was not alluding to her, any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar.
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Doctors such as geriatricians and psychiatrists have been cast in the role of fixers and gatekeepers to protect the institutions.
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No longer are local authorities cast in the role of protectors of unpopular, run-down schools.
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Where else will you be cast in the role of a dolphin?
fill
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This will have profound implications for established roles and relationships, and the development of people with talent to fill the roles.
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Thomas gave Rose credit for filling the role of point guard Wednesday.
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Inside, however, I felt inherently inferior, inadequate to fill the role .
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With the shift toward commercial traffic plus diminishing federal support, most regional providers have to evolve to fill new roles .
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But, for the most part, these men and women were hired to fill more junior roles than Mr Steffen's.
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And who, today, comes anywhere near filling that role ?
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So who might be available to fill this role: Ruddock - recently gone to Liverpool.
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We deny this, only to the inevitable result that we fool ourselves, and fill our leadership roles with fools.
fulfil
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In addition, clothes must help a woman to fulfil her special roles .
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Thus women continued to forgo having children rather than be penalized for fulfilling their biological role .
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Ironically, one way out of this problem is to employ paid workers to fulfil some roles in a club.
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The whole is supported at each spandrel by kneeling figures, apparently fulfilling the role of Atlas.
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Could any one house be sufficiently interesting to fulfil this dual role after the first flush of passion passed?
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The judgment rate is an important part of the creditor's arsenal that fulfils a dual role .
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However, on examination we find that the criminal process does not and can not fulfil this role .
perform
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In Czechoslovakia, the People's Militia perform a similar role .
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After they had performed well in the role , these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.
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But in competitive equilibrium prices are performing a second role .
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He performed that unglamorous role for Cleveland early in 1998, then was traded to San Francisco in mid-season.
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And to perform this role they need to have sufficient content to be used rather as premises in inferences.
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Infantry traditionally performed three roles: It held ground, took ground, and con-ducted precise reconnaissance when on patrol.
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In their different spheres, Rice and Albers both performed another important role typical of leaders of Great Groups.
support
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Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role .
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She married Jose in 1963 and played an important supporting role as he rose to prominence in the business world.
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Goblins are primarily support troops - their role is to ensure that your core troops get into combat against their chosen target.
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At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role .
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There is also evidence to support a role as a risk factor for gastric carcinoma.
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Old in particular played a crucial supporting role for the second time in the match.
take
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A Marxist approach which takes the role of ideology seriously needs to analyse punishment in terms such as these.
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The growth of anticommunist violence in Miami had intimidated many people from taking activist roles in liberal politics throughout south Florida.
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In the world of the infant and parent, the referential function of language often takes a subordinate role to others.
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Although the hospital is new to the area, it is taking an active role in the community and its improvement.
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Entomology was also taking on an economic role as its application to pest control became evident.
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The last several years, he has said he is prepared to take a more active role in the clubhouse.
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To take the latter role first, some music needs no accompaniment.
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It coped with social problems long before governments took on that role .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
meaty role
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It was a meaty role that, under other circumstances, he might have enjoyed.
play a part/role
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Although the budget committees guide Congress's actions on spending, every committee plays a role.
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Hart clearly played a role in the decision to change admission standards.
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Men now play a larger part in looking after their children.
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Our goal is to make sure everyone plays a part and shares in the credit.
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Schneider played a key role in getting the organization started.
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The most effective learning occurs when the child is allowed to play a more active role in the learning process.
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The Secretary of State played a leading role in the government's successful foreign policy.
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Together with the police everyone can play a part in improving the security of their neighborhood.
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But big-city gangsters also play a part.
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By speaking out about envy between women, comedy can play a part in helping us to heal it in ourselves.
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He was six now and understood that I had played a role in his parents separation.
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Luck has to play a part in it.
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Sure, the Pentium chip plays a part, but other components provide the big difference.
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The New Man rejects traditional roles of parenthood and likes to play a part in decision-making.
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The researchers said more investigation was needed into whether vaccinations or pesticides played a part.
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Therefore, both over-confidence and under-confidence may play a part in creating an environment in which accidents happen more readily.
plum job/role/assignment etc
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For me, it was a plum assignment.
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He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago.
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The good news was he had landed a plum job on the mortgage trading desk.
supporting part/role/actor etc
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At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role.
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Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.
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But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth.
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He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent, himself.
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Hopper won a supporting role in that film too.
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Its most unarguable successes are in the main supporting roles.
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The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor.
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The three supporting roles are all superbly played.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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School staff take an active role in providing career guidance.
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The traditional male role in marriage is to provide for women and children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But early today his role in the drama remained unclear.
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But we all had our little roles to play in this charade, and I was playing mine.
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Luthans et al. would say that they conceived of the managerial role primarily as traditional management activities, and routine information.
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The Forestry Commission has two official roles in national life.
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The marketing role in an organization is carried out by numerous individuals.
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The truth of this does not make it easy to define the teacher's role in management.
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When he took over the role last year, the box office took off, and the reviews were positively glowing.