predominant role

collocation in English

meaningsofpredominantandrole

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predominant
adjective
uk
/prɪˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/prɪˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more noticeable or important, or larger in number, ...
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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 ofpredominantandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This made the systemic conflict between the two states, which had played apredominantrolein the 1950s, look out of fashion.
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Most of the evidence, though, relates to spatio-temporal conditions in which functional equivalence is most likely to play apredominantrole.
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Actual awareness refers to an access level of metalinguistic awareness or a kind of precursor stage in which contextual, extralinguistic information plays thepredominantrole.
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Gender roles delineating different expectations for girls and boys will occupy a lesspredominantrolein an all-girls high school.
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The pill has given women thepredominantroleof initiator of contraception in the 1970s that the cap was never able to fulfil in the 1930s to 1960s.
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However, the trends observed in the depth series data suggest that the intermediate and 0or deep layers play a significant if notpredominantrolein the observed visual detection deficit.
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These studies show that the differentiation of quantitative traits is generally higher than that of molecular markers, suggesting apredominantroleof diversifying selection in natural populations.
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This function, we saw, consists in the expressive potential of promissor y conduct; and thepredominantrolethat legal enforceability plays in contract significantly undermines this potential.
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The private sector already has thepredominantrolein dealing with disrepair in private housing.
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Political parties have never played apredominantrolein the way in which we have organised our affairs.
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The third is what should be the amount of territory in which each community would have apredominantrole.
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Of course political parties would not be banned, but they would not have to take apredominantroleat that level of local government.
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Notwithstanding the changing priorities and despite the limitations on time and resources, thepredominantroleof any school governing body should be a strategic one.
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It is not necessary under that system to have thatpredominantroleallocated to the party.
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That implies some form of centralised advisory mechanism in which the commission should play thepredominantrole.
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Institutional investors such as insurance companies, investment funds and pension funds play an increasinglypredominantrolein providing risk capital.
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But we still see the agriculture and industry directorate taking thepredominantrole.
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I am concerned, however, at its increasinglypredominantrolein electricity generation.
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There can be no doubt at all that it has been the mutual building societies which have played thepredominantrolein the growth of our property-owning democracy.
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