Example sentences of "source of [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major source of charity for the unemployed were the ad hoc funds raised by public subscription , such as the Lord Mayor of London 's Mansion House funds , opened regularly in times of exceptional distress . |
| 2 | Of course the redundancy payment was an important source of capital for many older workers and , therefore , contributed to the decision about early retirement . |
| 3 | It can be seen from this that although David Barclay senior was not ‘ the founder of Barclays Bank ’ as he has sometimes been named , his sons James , David , and John were important early partners in the bank , and the mercantile fortune he had built up an important source of capital for it from the 1770s . |
| 4 | This ‘ silver sea , was also , and still is , one of the world 's richest fishing zones — as well as a playground for sailors and a source of inspiration for poets and painters . |
| 5 | Their study , therefore , can be a source of inspiration for the artist and designer . |
| 6 | A small traditional style village which was the source of inspiration for some of Chopin 's most romantic compositions . |
| 7 | This island archipelago is situated in the Pacific Ocean c. 1000 km west of Ecuador and is famous as the source of inspiration for Charles Darwin 's evolutionary theory . |
| 8 | Klein 's suggestion was one major source of inspiration for the research that culminated in three papers in PNAS all reporting that chromosome 8 does indeed contain a proto-oncogene — a gene known as myc , after the myelocytomatosis virus in which it was discovered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Uli 's still pushing his musical boundaries and he 's a continual source of inspiration for me . ’ |
| 11 | Animals are an endless source of inspiration for sculptor Sally Matthews |
| 12 | Cézanne 's intensely ‘ painterly ’ art with its brilliant use of colour and its mysterious deformations , which suggested a range of new pictorial concepts , was a source of inspiration for almost all the significant young painters working in Europe during the first quarter of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | This remarkable example has been a source of inspiration for architects in Europe since the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | Thereafter his close relationship with Britten proved a powerful source of inspiration for the composer ; a vast quantity of music — including thirteen operatic roles ( from Grimes to Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice ( 1973 ) ) , song-cycles ( with piano and with orchestra ) , five canticles and solo parts in major choral works such at St Nicolas ( 1948 ) , Spring Symphony ( 1949 ) and War Requiem ( 1961 ) was composed specifically for Pears . |
| 15 | Against a country who have yet to win a game in this competition , McCoist is at one time the biggest worry and the main source of inspiration for Roxburgh . |
| 16 | Herein lay a grave source of weakness for the attempt of elected politicians to assert their right to take a greater share of power . |
| 17 | This is necessarily a source of weakness for the banks in the competitive struggle against the building societies . |
| 18 | Nature is the most potent source of healing for the mind body-spirit . |
| 19 | The consent , acceptance or support of " the people " has increasingly become the principal source of legitimacy for governments and regimes , however authoritarian they may be in reality . |
| 20 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 21 | Of course the insurance companies are a good deal less ‘ photogenic ’ and much less of a source of scandal for the gossip columnists . |
| 22 | This is one important source of discretion for implementers . |
| 23 | Meat is nutritionally important and chimps are a serious source of predation for their prey . |
| 24 | Who is the main source of help for those older people who need help with the basic activities of daily living ? |
| 25 | Plants were the only source of help for health improvement for hundreds of years , and doctors were almost entirely reliant on them though some , notably Hippocrates , did stress that hygiene and diet were of major importance . |
| 26 | In this characteristically elusive passage it is not clear whether Marx means that the social relations of a smallholding peasantry make it easy to tax them ( ‘ Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy ’ ) or control them and therefore the bulk of society — uniform and routine administration being more effective than administration requiring flexibility , discretion , decentralization , and so on . |
| 27 | The most memorable image in this poem is probably that of ‘ Alph the sacred River ’ — which is the source of life for the gardens of the pleasure dome , and represents the fountain of inspiration for the poet . |
| 28 | It was a new source of work for actors and singers for which there was much gratitude . |
| 29 | Housing of all types has been a significant source of work for Grove in 1992 , ranging from the Housing Association project at St James ’ Hospital , London to the infrastructure at Maidenbower Village in Crawley where the design of the major relief road in the town centre is now about complete . |
| 30 | It is a valuable source of work for any practice and with statistics telling us that 80 per cent of people entitled to claim do not do so , there must be every possibility of expanding this area of work . |