Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [art] [adj] source of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such proposals are naturally a major source of controversy between the political parties but some local authorities have undoubtedly been looking at charges with a fresh eye in recent years . |
| 2 | Walls are generally the greatest source of heat loss and correspondingly expensive to tackle . |
| 3 | They are just an endless source of inspiration and excitement . |
| 4 | Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks . |
| 5 | Luckily , he had a correspondent in his brother Theo in whom he could confide and with whom he could explore ideas about art ; the letters are thus an invaluable source of interpretation . |
| 6 | Taxi drivers are always a good source of copy . |
| 7 | Although a lot of research into medicinal plants and traditional remedies has now been carried out , people are still a major source of knowledge . |
| 8 | Relations with the LEAs are also a fruitful source of tensions and confusions at the moment . |
| 9 | These comprise mainly privatised industry , such as British Nuclear Fuels , regional electricity and water boards , although pharmaceutical companies are also a well-established source of income . |
| 10 | His observations made in 1695 are not only an important source of early medicine ( and therefore of world significance ) but are also a vital source of Hebridean social history . |
| 11 | Understanding the reasons for the decline in women 's employment after age 45 is important for community care policy , labour supply and pensions policy : older women are a major source of informal care for elderly people , yet are also a potential source of extra employees as the supply of school leavers declines during the 1990s . |
| 12 | I mean that they 're a valuable source of fund raising in the schools for example , erm and I would not , they are also a valuable source of fund raising people that need to raise money to buy their kids Christmas presents and so on , you know , I mean people , they 're not all market traders or people shifting stolen goods at car boot sales . |
| 13 | The women 's organizations are also an important source of information for many refugees who would otherwise be isolated from events in their country and a channel by means of which they can express support for the revolutionary movement : |
| 14 | It is claimed that high taxation rates reduce personal savings which are an essential ingredient in the moral character of a nation and which are also an important source of funding for investment in private industry . |
| 15 | Activated lipocytes ( myofibroblasts ) are also the major source of the interstitial collagens ( type I and III ) which are produced in excess during liver fibrosis and cirrhosis and replace the normal basement membrane matrix . |
| 16 | Parent governors and those parents that help around the school are well motivated and are often a great source of feedback on how well the school is doing in the eyes of its adult audience . |
| 17 | Specialist mortgage brokers are often a useful source of advice if you have a CCJ . |
| 18 | Letters are often a hoped-for source of descriptions of events or of personal feelings about certain things ; and one source of written information which , though not in letter form but not wholly dissimilar , can be useful for the researcher , is the description written by children or young people of events in which they have taken part , or about given social situations . |
| 19 | However , will he assure the House that the importance of retained profits is truly understood by his Department , especially in relation to unquoted companies where the profits ploughed back by those companies are often the only source of capital ? |
| 20 | Lorries and cars , particularly those running on diesel fuel , are now the principal source of smoke pollution , ahead of power stations and domestic fires , according to a report by the National Society for Clean Air . |
| 21 | Such leases are therefore a useful source of genealogical information . |
| 22 | tensions and emotional problems are actually the true source of the symptoms . |