Example sentences of "source of [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the proposed research is to investigate how the subsidiary skills relate to the development of braille reading , to identify the sources of difficulty at different levels of proficiency , and to test application for improving reading speed and accuracy . |
| 2 | It may be helpful at this point to distinguish between two possible sources of interference between concurrent tasks . |
| 3 | The fairly effective neutralization of countervailing sources of leadership from professional bodies and trade unions is an important component of this , as is the considerable attention paid to ensuring that leadership initiatives have broad-based support before they are adopted , through the mechanisms of the ringi-ko decision-making structure and the extensive use of generalist managerial job rotation . |
| 4 | In these sectors the organization of Japanese industry into loosely affiliated groups provides additional sources of protection for large firms . |
| 5 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 6 | The research also aims to illuminate the processes by which the ESSE/L Project was implemented by the Project team , to identify some of the conditions conducive to success in such projects , and to identify sources of resistance to such innovations . |
| 7 | While the relative share of employment and social security benefits varied enormously from one country to another as sources of income for lone parents , maintenance payments generally contributed little to the income of lone parents , even if widows are excluded . |
| 8 | More generally , it can be suggested that the social reforms which have been pursued through educational reform in the post-war period , prior to collapse of the liberal consensus and its political constituency , need to be approached through a direct assault upon the structural sources of inequality in demand-side institutions . |
| 9 | The king supplemented these sources of patronage with papal provisions on behalf of his candidates , but it sometimes happened that the royal clerk , with or without a provision , found himself forestalled in a benefice by another providee . |
| 10 | The same considerations apply to the diversification of sources of supply for resource-seeking investors ( see , for example , Rugman , 1979 ; Vernon , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | At the outbreak of war in 1914 , Strahan supervised the preparation of a set of vital military geological maps of Belgium and other war zones ; and with the cessation of foreign sources of supply an exhaustive inventory of native sources of supply of strategic minerals ( ranging from barytes to sand ) was needed . |
| 12 | The implications of these points are that wider markets are not as familiar to suppliers as local markets , and they must therefore seek out sources of information about distant markets . |
| 13 | In this Chapter we show that the range of information which may be obtained from the use of the more common techniques is very wide ; we also explain the ways in which less conventional sources of information about molecular vibrations may provide valuable data . |
| 14 | With the movement towards churchyard burial in the early eighth century , one of the last great sources of information about early Saxons , the pagan cemetery , was lost to archaeologists ; the overlay of later burials has destroyed much of the evidence of early Christian Sussex . |
| 15 | Also worth looking at to keep up to date are the Radio Times and TV Times : useful sources of information on current programmes together with the names of the presenters and producers . |
| 16 | In such an economy , and also in the earlier phases of primitive agricultural communities , the coast and the larger river valleys provided very rich sources of food for small bands of people ; many Mesolithic sites have been recognised in such areas . |
| 17 | Thirdly , targeted industries should have markets that were known to be price and income elastic and would offer long-term growth , in contrast to the low value-added products that were the usual sources of stagnation in Asian economies . |
| 18 | Sources of power for these externals are similar to those already discussed . |
| 19 | Before the F-Plan was published it was impossible to find a really helpful and realistic guide to the sources of fibre in everyday foods . |
| 20 | Table 8.1 gives a picture of the relative importance of these different sources of revenue in alternate years of the period 1979–87 . |
| 21 | Sources of finance for overseas projects |
| 22 | They are also likely to lead to differences in the way brainstem structures work , since the cerebral cortex of mammals is one of the major sources of input to these areas . |
| 23 | But the large-scale manufacture of plastics after World War 11 encouraged FAO to sponsor the development of cheap , large , plastic nets , which were originally intended to help provide additional sources of protein for developing countries . |
| 24 | ‘ The real source of deviation in such areas ’ , writes Lemert ( 1972:55 ) , ‘ is not necessarily change in the behavior of the subjects of regulation , but may be the imposition of new rules which define existing behavior , or behavior consistent with older norms , as now deviant . |
| 25 | He was , through his books and contributions to journals and newspapers , a source of inspiration for numerous scientists , would-be scientists and general readers for more than 60 years . |
| 26 | This question of pre-versus postsynaptic plasticity has been a major source of polemic in recent years , but with most theoreticians favouring the postsynaptic side as the main site of plasticity . |
| 27 | The Durkheimian tradition remains a source of influence for non-Marxist penologists as well . |
| 28 | Because of the potential source of artefact of such factors as the spatial layout of a research laboratory Saring and Von Carmon ( 1980 ) had their subjects lie supine in a darkened room . |
| 29 | The enormous park was a source of delight to most visitors — though not all — for sometimes the Empress , an indefatigable walker , would set off with a group of people to tramp through the grounds , occasionally going part of the way in a carriage . |
| 30 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |