Example sentences of "as a source " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children probably appear as a source from which to develop new relationships and the immediate perception is to translate this experience into scholastic terms . |
| 2 | By 1989 the branches from Tondu to Garw and Ogmore had both closed , leaving only Maesteg as a source of traffic in this once thriving part of the Welsh coalfield . |
| 3 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 4 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 5 | As a result , villagers in the three southern African states are coming to regard herds of elephants which will be legally culled as a source of legitimate profit . |
| 6 | Sun/Star readers ' preference for television as a source of issue-information was just as great as that of people who did not read any paper regularly . |
| 7 | On balance , people also preferred television rather than the press as a source of information about political leaders . |
| 8 | So amongst tabloid readers generally , but especially amongst Sun/Star readers , there was a dramatic difference between their overwhelming preference for television as a source of information and their reliance upon both press and television for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 9 | Many peasants , particularly the less well off , still preferred the priest as a source of education . |
| 10 | The major economic argument for the area was as a way of expanding the zone of multilateral trade in the short run , and as a source of ‘ highly beneficial trading and banking relations ’ . |
| 11 | Linked to this persistent emphasis on the head of state as a quasi-mystical individual has been a countervailing disregard for the opinions and practices of village communities , except as the means of export revenue and , where tribal links justify it , as a source of political support . |
| 12 | Marx uses Morgan principally as a source about exotic societies . |
| 13 | This meant that although the Iroquois might be observed contemporaneously with nineteenth-century European society , they could , none the less , be considered as a source of information about European society several thousand years before . |
| 14 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 15 | Slightly more promising as a source of cinematic entertainment were the melodramatic novels to which Barker and others turned for narrative material . |
| 16 | Dr Burge has valued schemes as a source of research and some universities are now promoting both industrial contact and research experience . |
| 17 | Dr Burge has valued schemes as a source of research and some universities are now promoting both industrial contact and research experience . |
| 18 | Mr Holt 's theme is sex as a source of confusion . |
| 19 | It has been traditionally hunted for food and as a source of medicinal oil , and has in recent years been accidentally captured in fishing nets . |
| 20 | The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement . |
| 21 | The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement . |
| 22 | Presumably they were asking how the principles of morality are discovered and known to be true , and discussing the role of revelation as a source and foundation of morality and religion . |
| 23 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |
| 24 | Although the problem may not always be clearly articulated , these women are seeking alternative rituals that affirm female distinctiveness as a source of sacrality . |
| 25 | Clement wrote the third book of his Miscellanies to attack the Gnostic denial of the goodness of the created order , which lay at the root of their contradictory attitudes to sex , either as a repulsive carnality or as a source of phallic ecstasy . |
| 26 | The evidence of coins , as indeed of any artefact , is used as a source of history in inverse proportion to the amount of history which has survived . |
| 27 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 28 | James I was determined to restore the Forest system as an important part of his royal prerogative , and as a source of revenue as well as of pleasure in his favourite sport of hunting . |
| 29 | This Act was unsuccessful also in its attempt to develop the New Forest as a source of timber by a ‘ rolling programme ’ of inclosure . |
| 30 | WOMEN have been neglected as a source of scientific talent , despite concern over the shortages of school leavers , the Science Policy Support Group claim today . |