Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been a source " in BNC.
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| 1 | All told , the upwelling of the cold waters of the south-eastern Pacific has long been a source of considerable economic importance . |
| 2 | The bureaucratization of the party has long been a source of political conflict within communist states . |
| 3 | For example , the Keynesian saving function in which the rate of acquisition of new financial and real assets is a function of the level of income has long been a source of dissatisfaction . |
| 4 | Fire , she tells me , has always been a source of goodness . |
| 5 | It has always been a source of amazement to me that anglers who are prepared to pay upwards of £100 for a rod and reel moan plaintively about the price of perhaps the most important item of tackle : the hook . |
| 6 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
| 7 | He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a compliment when I say that , from the days when I was a student , he has been an inspiration to me . |
| 8 | There is an analogy here with working-class culture , black and white , where masculinity has also been a source of resistance , but once again at the expense of ratifying a larger exploitative framework for men as well as women . |
| 9 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 10 | The Holy Land had long been a source of exasperation for Rome , and after the revolt of A.D. 66 Roman hostility towards Judaism intensified . |
| 11 | The fells above Coniston have long been a source of the widely used Westmorland slate ( see Borrowdale ) , but the mountain known as Coniston Old Man and its associated fells are equally interesting as an area of copper-mining activity , and one nearby location is known as Coppermines Valley . |
| 12 | Chimaeras have always been a source of some horror . |