adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a critical/crucial moment (=a very important moment)
▪ This was a critical moment in the country’s history.
a critical/crucial stage (=very important because it affects the future success of something)
▪ The football season is reaching a crucial stage.
a crucial/critical element (=extremely important and necessary)
▪ The most crucial element of our economic system is the law of supply and demand.
a key/crucial factor (=a very important factor)
▪ A key factor in a company’s success is knowing its customers.
a vital/crucial/essential role
▪ Every member of the team has a vital role to play.
an important/crucial distinction
▪ There is an important distinction between these two types of cancer.
an important/crucial match
▪ Luckily, all their players are fit for such an important match.
an important/significant/crucial difference
▪ A study of the two groups of students showed a significant difference.
vital/crucial/critical importance (=very great )
▪ This research is of vital importance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ This means that the data analysis stage is as crucial as the implementation stage of the computer applications.
▪ No other factor appears to me to be as crucial as the presence or absence of this.
▪ The problem of the observer is as crucial in biology as it is in physics.
▪ Not nearly as crucial, but every bit as entertaining: Cultivate a talent.
▪ The establishment of personal relationships was not as crucial during the study of the known sector where informants had been randomly sampled.
▪ Which is why the front office felt it was just as crucial to find another dependable reliever as it was another starter.
▪ But lie still regarded the result as crucial and in no way retreated from his new-found determination to fight.
▪ Nevertheless, the role of the teacher is recognised as crucial.
more
▪ A more crucial issue concerns the use of the technology by other firms and organisations that have nothing to do with electronics.
▪ Which was more crucial for infant development?
▪ They must naturally be pursued, but always giving counsellees the opportunity to move on to other, more crucial issues.
▪ But even more crucial is the attitude and behaviour of those who govern us.
▪ But what was more crucial was the fact that the crowds turned out - as did the record companies.
▪ The military was more crucial in terms of political control than the railwaymen.
▪ A less noticeable but ultimately more crucial problem was a general decline in profitability.
most
▪ It was precisely during these remote and largely unrecorded periods that some of the most crucial changes took place.
▪ Involved in constant travel during that most crucial year, I called some friends.
▪ And his reaction was, I think, the first self-defining move of his life - and undoubtedly the most crucial.
▪ The effectivity of the duty to disarm is probably the most crucial issue in international law and international relations of this era.
▪ Perhaps the most crucial recommendation is that relating to the funding that will be available for community care after April 1993.
▪ One of the most crucial features of the model we are describing is the occurrence of feedback.
▪ Because the most crucial lesson in Durban was that this tragedy is preventable.
▪ Notably, Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts play themselves in some of the most crucial scenes.
so
▪ Here the missing link is frequently the directly observed contextual detail which is so crucial in anthropological field work.
▪ This is another reason why the primary in South Carolina is so crucial.
▪ Sometimes the bevel elbow is so crucial, it makes certain cuts impossible.
▪ One of the many important churches which are often so crucial in forming the townscape we see about us?
▪ Since these behavioural data are so crucial to interpreting the physiological findings they will repay careful scrutiny.
▪ For example, virtually all of the new databases which are so crucial for accessing research are Western orientated and owned.
▪ This partly helps to explain why their partner's support is so crucial to them.
■ NOUN
area
▪ In the crucial areas of international relations the state still dominates and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
▪ There are no social class differences in this crucial area.
▪ A crucial area of potential conflict is between safety and other objectives such as output or the saving of cost and time.
▪ Without these crucial areas of explanation, her theory of how innovations occur or do not occur seems remarkably fragile.
▪ The relationship of Christology to New Testament study has remained a crucial area of study and debate.
▪ However when we had a crucial area such as the future of Church Relations, decisions seem to have been taken.
▪ In fact this is one of the most crucial areas of disagreement between them.
aspect
▪ A crucial aspect of the productive process is the division of labour into restricted tasks.
▪ We all feel we have a self, and we suspect that it is a crucial aspect of being human.
▪ In the next chapter we turn to this crucial aspect of archaeology.
▪ Inequalities of use in the crucial aspects of schooling have changed very little over the years.
▪ As we have seen, the sense of territory is a crucial aspect of this behaviour.
▪ A crucial aspect of a child's interests is thus ignored.
▪ And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business.
▪ What is more, emotions are a crucial aspect of how we create our reality.
decision
▪ Deciding where to live Of course one of the most crucial decisions to make when retiring alone is where to live.
▪ The crucial decisions about distribution of goods are made by those with power in the political system.
▪ Width, depth and height were crucial decisions.
▪ The people closest to the students thus make the crucial decisions about teaching and learning.
▪ Choice One of the crucial decisions, now, is whether to teach a subject discretely, or to integrate.
▪ By its very nature, adjudication entails crucial decisions about the allocation of values and meanings for a society.
▪ It was a crucial decision and town planning in Britain was immeasurably influenced by it.
▪ Really though, this is nothing to be scared of-you made your crucial decision long ago.
difference
▪ There is, however, a crucial difference.
▪ Sometimes this makes a crucial difference in how well the medical program works.
▪ Nevertheless, there is a crucial difference between the cognitive approach and that of social representations.
▪ Still there were crucial differences in this small sample of factories.
▪ A crucial difference of interpretation lies here.
▪ This is a crucial difference from the way the hormone affects the body.
▪ The crucial difference is that Marx emphasised the first element, while Weber emphasised the second.
▪ Sometimes this makes a crucial difference.
element
▪ Nussbaum's drumming is a crucial element, providing colour and definition in this compelling session.
▪ The wise use of time can be a crucial element in other ways.
▪ Nursing practice forms an integral part of learning to nurse and is a crucial element in nursing studies.
▪ The crucial element missing from the economic engine is demand, some savvy analysts in Tokyo say.
▪ In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
▪ Except the crucial element is missing in the plans -- manufacturing.
▪ Like her, he has done so by detaching crucial elements from his predecessor's constituency and annexing them to his own.
▪ The crucial element for Hilton is the reorientation of the will.
factor
▪ The crucial factor in these committees was the presence on them of members and officers together.
▪ As I have thought about this part of the puzzle it has become clear to me that there are two crucial factors.
▪ The crucial factor was the identity of your parents.
▪ A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family.
▪ It is the combination of different roles within a team that seems a crucial factor in its success.
▪ Maximum use of valuable real estate here became the crucial factor in station-building.
▪ Job satisfaction is commonly a crucial factor in a decision not to aim high.
▪ There is also a problem in delineating this sector since self-employment is considered such a crucial factor.
importance
▪ The market is of crucial importance for efficiency, but the control of inflation is a separate problem.
▪ Or, does it encapsulate a mystery of crucial importance for the dying to contemplate?
▪ The distinction between names and descriptions remains thus of crucial importance.
▪ Thus the study of the political world is of crucial importance to the creation of humane social life.
▪ It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin.
▪ Not many more offer Arabic, whose crucial importance is even more evident.
▪ A woman abandoned by her husband found her wage of new and crucial importance and looked to the union for support.
issue
▪ The effectivity of the duty to disarm is probably the most crucial issue in international law and international relations of this era.
▪ By and large, the inadequacies and limitations of these science and technology policy-making bodies is equally handicapped by many crucial issues.
▪ These negative attitudes permeate decisions about crucial issues such as the allocation of resources, particularly the resources of skilled and experienced staff.
▪ Without their work, we might not be able to explain crucial issues like tuna.
▪ At one time winning the vote seemed to be the crucial issue.
▪ He sometimes has to dissemble in order to prevail on crucial issues.
▪ The crucial issue is proof the standard treatments have been subjected to rigorous examination to check that they are effective.
▪ Now V. appeared to be swaying Chiang on the crucial issue of Stilwell.
moment
▪ At times, the book jumps from place to place in a jarring way, only to fragment at crucial moments.
▪ The piece captures the band at a crucial moment in their rise to the status of phenomenon.
▪ Some one came along at the crucial moment to pay that tax for him when he refused to do so.
▪ It was a most crucial moment.
▪ He can move from place to place through the air at crucial moments, supposedly by inspiration of divine spirit.
▪ At crucial moments Churchill swung his weight behind the Keynesian approach.
▪ It acknowledges the weaknesses which Gore as a candidate displayed at crucial moments.
part
▪ There is also a considerable amount of evidence to indicate that patients themselves see communication as a crucial part of their care.
▪ The master boot record is a crucial part of the hard drive.
▪ More importantly, this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society.
▪ Well, not the whole brain, but crucial parts of it.
▪ The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.
▪ Commercially available since 1965, communications satellites are a crucial part of the global communications infrastructure.
▪ Judgements are a crucial part of knowledge, learning and any educational process.
▪ The other crucial part is formalized child care.
point
▪ There are two crucial points to note in Wallman's remarks.
▪ Both sides made various concessions, but neither would back down on the crucial points.
▪ That is the crucial point about this amazing monarchy, with its ridiculous assumptions about itself.
▪ A crucial point about epidemics is that not all members of a given population behave in a uniform way.
▪ These quick distinctions are prologue to a crucial point.
▪ The crucial point in this case is that it is no longer possible to reproduce the integrated equilibrium through trade.
▪ Firstly, I understand that you must edit letters, but the crucial point on avoiding sexist language was omitted.
▪ This is a crucial point reflected in the contrasting views of the role of the state discussed earlier in this chapter.
question
▪ Aware as I went she had dodged the crucial question.
▪ Yet this, surely, is a crucial question.
▪ The Act did not provide a clear answer to this crucial question and it depended very much on the courts.
▪ The crucial question here is what makes individuals receptive or resistant to racist ideas.
▪ A crucial question now is how the mood of the Parliamentary Conservative party has moved since that date.
▪ The crucial question for Henzler is which of these capitalist systems will give its people the best quality of life.
▪ We move on to examine this crucial question.
role
▪ But certain individuals clearly played crucial roles and it meant names had to be mentioned.
▪ The mutual recognition of ministers and members that is inherent in all union schemes plays a crucial role here.
▪ Notice the crucial role that prices play in this remarkable result.
▪ Might not some essential aspects of quantum theory also be playing crucial roles in the physics that underlies our thought processes?
▪ We want to see better trained teachers, respected for their professionalism and rewarded for their crucial role in the community.
▪ But recently it has been learned that adenosine plays a crucial role in setting the overall arousal level of the brain.
▪ Clearly, one's state of mind can also play a crucial role in the health of one's heart.
stage
▪ This was a crucial stage in the main plot.
▪ We have arrived at the sixth crucial stage in the evolution of life.
▪ If you do have doubts and problems about the job these should be discussed privately before things reach a crucial stage.
▪ All these constraints form the third crucial stage of the evolution of life on earth.
▪ Smyth will miss at least two All Ireland league games at a crucial stage of the season.
▪ This is the fifth crucial stage in the evolution of life.
▪ The crucial stage was not the introduction of the project but its establishment once these strains began to tell.
▪ The negotiations with the Soviets are at a crucial stage, and nothing must be allowed to threaten those talks.
step
▪ This process of elaborating a concept and moving toward empirical indicators is the crucial step in variable analysis.
▪ I am saying, however, that Macintosh was the crucial step, the turning point.
▪ But the crucial step is to take responsibility for that belief.
▪ Too often, uninformed adults discount and dismiss all the crucial steps children take en route to becoming independent readers.
▪ In understanding brains, some of the crucial steps have been technical.
▪ It is here that Aspect has taken a crucial step with his latest experiment.
test
▪ Nevertheless, the crucial test must be whether further research along similar lines duplicates these findings.
▪ The Division had passed the most crucial test.
▪ That was a crucial test of his nerve.
▪ The rash of Republican debates will be a crucial test for McCain's insurgent candidacy.
▪ His crucial test will be the ferocity of his assault on spending.
▪ The crucial test question to ask is: Could I measure the extent of this undesired behaviour if I wanted to?
▪ The most crucial test of this was at a standing stone at Kintraw, Argyll.
▪ He said that the country had surmounted a crucial test when price controls were lifted for most goods in January.
time
▪ These, or a hundred other weaknesses or incompatibilities in computer systems, create information bottlenecks at crucial times.
▪ This weakened the Section's influence at a crucial time and correspondingly strengthened the hand of the Treasury.
▪ The nomination comes at a crucial time in her life.
▪ Probably the most crucial times in sea kayaking are launching and landing.
▪ Bagshaw thought - will my bosses blame me for letting this man go at what is approaching a crucial time?
▪ Their farms could not be left unattended at this crucial time.
▪ Although they battled strongly throughout the game they lost too many counts at crucial times.
▪ They fail to keep him informed, and to advise at crucial times, such as takeovers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Crucial decisions had to be made, involving millions of dollars.
▪ Learning to work together is a crucial part of the training program.
▪ The crucial factor in their relationship was their unshakeable faith in each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A close working relationship is crucial if policy is to develop smoothly and clearly.
▪ But even more crucial is the attitude and behaviour of those who govern us.
▪ Ritchey worked for some very good bosses, but it was the difficult boss who had a crucial impact on his career.
▪ Shared language is now substantial, religious differences are not crucial, and ethnic and cultural distinctions have diminished.
▪ The rate your company pays you could have crucial tax implications for you.
▪ The statement of purpose is crucial to the project planning simply because every method and procedure flows from it.
▪ Their development is thus crucial to potential profitability.
▪ This was a crucial stage in the main plot.