important role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimportantandrole
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important
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofimportantandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In sickness or in health, in life or in death, in wedding ceremonies, pigs played animportantrolein all of them.
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Genome-wide scan for body composition in pigs revealsimportantroleof imprinting.
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Clarification requests play animportantrolein effective conversations, and children must learn the conversational rules for interpreting and responding to such requests.
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There is substantial evidence that serotonergic systems play animportantrole.
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Thus, singularity analysis plays animportantrolein the design of any parallel manipulator.
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A well-developed print culture plays animportantrolein this.
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An analogous argument suggests animportantrolefor the return-to-isotropy term in the vertical flux equation, in accord with our observations above.
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Their relative magnitudes can be expected to play animportantrolein determining the flow structure in the vicinity of the plate.
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The shadow of legal controls plays animportantrolein shaping the constitutional culture and therefore the horizon of possibilities within which political actors operate.
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Thus, while controlling for all the significant variables, unconventional behavior did play animportantroleat a number of developmental stages.
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The local eighteenth-century legal traditions also played animportantrolein shaping modern colonial legal culture.
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Economic restructuring has played animportantrolein reducing pollution in economies in transition.
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Hence, we can understand that the screening atomic effect plays animportantrolein atomic collisions in non-ideal plasmas.
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This is also visible in a thirdimportantroleof exiles: the development of new ideas.
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This also affirms the fact that infectious diseases play animportantrolein selection for heterozygosity within the species.
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