The phrase "a supportive role in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's function or contribution in a context where they provide assistance or encouragement to others.
Example: "In this project, she will take on a supportive role in helping the team achieve its goals."
Alternatives: "an assisting role in" or "a facilitative role in".
There's always a certain 'Field of Dreams' thinking with regulations like this: 'If you build it, they will come.'" "We support government playing a supportive role in building the infrastructure needed to encourage consumers to buy new types of vehicles," Ms. Bergquist wrote in a follow-up e-mail.
She was also content to play a supportive role in the selection of Wolf's Mörike songs that followed.
On the other hand, in DLC coatings, elastic modulus is relatively high so that reduction in contact area plays a supportive role in reducing friction [15].
Woody carbon reserves and sugar accumulation play a supportive role in grape quality, the main determinant of crop value in wine grapes.
Nanotechnology and nanoscience are also playing a supportive role in the advancement of regenerative medicine, which will have a major long-term impact on heart failure treatment.
They don't do this by charging in to save the day; instead, male allies play a supportive role in addressing the challenges that women face in the tech industry.
The design of the programme sees the health department only in a supportive role and not in a monitoring or supervisory role (SHRC 2003a).
Thus, our data argue in favour of a supportive role for microglia in brain neuroplasticity stimulation possibly through BDNF production, suggesting that a targeted protection of microglial cells could represent an innovative approach to potentiate post-stroke neuroregeneration.
These findings may suggest a supportive role for ACTH in mineralocorticoid synthesis and release, especially in times of stress, salt-restriction or relative mineralocorticoid insensitivity.
This may indicate that AS is associated with enhanced evolutionary dynamics in these gene families, consistent with a supportive role of AS in gene evolution.
A number of specific information needs were identified by GPs to enable them to provide a supportive role to participants in the programme.
