The phrase "a supportive function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a role or task that provides assistance or encouragement within a system or organization.
Example: "The team leader plays a supportive function by mentoring new employees and fostering a positive work environment."
Alternatives: "an assisting role" or "a facilitative function".
Economic, labour, and social policies, again, have a supportive function.
Illustrated educational methods have a supportive function in learning factual knowledge.
When the CHP and the boilers together generate the required heat, the CHP has priority and the boilers have a supportive function.
Governments certainly continue to play a part — but increasingly, it is a supportive function centered on funding.
It will be of interest to define the nature of these tiny microfibrils that could be coordinated with other cytoskeletal proteins that have a supportive function.
In the bone marrow, MSCs have a supportive function for the haematopoietic system and provide a niche for haematopoietic progenitor cells to mature.
This result shows that Scc4 plays a supportive role in Scc2 function.
Lastly, pathophysiological evidence can play only a supportive role, its major function being to suggest further mechanistic and outcome studies in humans, or, where known a priori, to support the plausibility of a safety signal.
Rehme et al. (2010) have shown that increases in contralesional M1 activity over the first 10 days after stroke correlate with the amount of spontaneous motor improvement in initially more impaired patients suggesting a supportive role for recovery of function in the very early phase after stroke.
What alters in the pelvic floor that leads to a lacking supportive function?
One may speculate whether the less intensive outpatient individual therapy had a more supportive function in relation to psychosocial problems, which facilitated social adjustment in the short run for certain patients but was easier lost in the post-treatment phase.
