Noun used with modifier

• guitar: Dan is not a particularly brilliant singer and a whole evening of guitar instrumentals is not my ideal concert.

• jazz: Two jazz instrumentals, the second of which you will know for the jazz classic ' Love Me Right ' .

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Quaker culture proved instrumental in material and commercial advancement.

Modifies a noun

• rationality: Very often philosophers have questioned that instrumental rationality could account for the rational structure underlying our natural languages.

• tuition: Schools may charge for instrumental tuition given to groups of no more than four pupils.

• ensemble: The program includes a choir, keyboard and percussion work, as well as an instrumental ensemble.

• interlude: There are long vocal passages, split by instrumental interludes that make for some really nicely balanced songs - it's all here!

• accompaniment: Poems were generally sung or chanted, with instrumental accompaniment.

• virtuosity: Smart lyrics, artfully composed tuneful songs, instrumental virtuosity.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: The music that was written for them is among the first purely instrumental music ever to be written.

• largely: The consultation document makes the case for a largely instrumental motivation in the case of most students.

• mainly: Reason is mainly instrumental; it needs to be guided.

• exclusively: From the word go, this CD was a ) known to be exclusively instrumental, and b ) predominantly guitar based.

• merely: The arguments are fundamentally moral, rather than merely instrumental.

Preposition: in

• founding: Who would have guessed that Homerton College was instrumental in the founding of one of England's most famous football clubs?

• establishment: They both went on to be instrumental in the establishment of the Wildlife Trust some seven years later.

• creation: Grierson was a key figure in the development of the genre in Britain, and instrumental in the creation of the NFB itself.

• formation: MAG were also instrumental in the formation of FEMA.

• success: He had a very modern outlook and was instrumental in the success of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

• development: Coach Mace has been instrumental in the development of women's boxing at Oxford.