Example sentences of "as sources " in BNC.

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1 As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources .
2 Coins do have considerable advantages over other objects as sources of information .
3 As many as 40% of all European farmers have such second jobs , the majority maintaining their farms as sources of supplementary income .
4 This report , also known as the Lawther Report after its chairman Professor Patrick Lawther , played down dust and airborne lead as sources of contamination .
5 In some places the glacial deposits were reworked by small glacial streams and rivers leading to occasional , small deposits of fluvio-glacial sands and gravels which are often used throughout these islands as sources of aggregate for building purposes .
6 Some were brought back from new and exotic lands simply as sources of amusement or sensation .
7 With the advent of affordable and easy to use video equipment in the early eighties , community access workshops burgeoned , and local authorities and education authorities were added to the Regional Arts Association and the British Film Institute as sources of funding .
8 The reorganization of the Training Commission has already shifted decision-making on post-sixteen training towards non-elected decision-making forums , often with the enthusiastic involvement of colleges which see them as sources of additional funds .
9 be misleading to categorise as pornography works of art or literature merely because they were capable of being treated primarily as sources of sexual stimulation .
10 Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land .
11 I agree with Eldon Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer that : ‘ Like all of education , physical education should provide opportunities for students to try their hand at a variety of activities as sources of possible self-realization .
12 This room was used to grow fungi which were , in part , used as sources for creating poisons .
13 They were suspicious of preaching and the personal interpretation of scripture by the laity , and placed great stress on the sacraments as sources of grace .
14 The large industrial investment group questioned identified ‘ mainly front line operating departments ’ as their most frequent users , and an anonymous respondent referred to research and marketing as sources of headhunting demand .
15 But first , I will say a little more about what actually constitutes these needs and requirements and how they operate as sources of control .
16 Finally , a short comment on charters as sources for twelfth-century history .
17 In modern times , people have looked to many different aspects of human activity as sources of conflict , not all of which may be seen as appropriate to medieval societies .
18 As the nation became increasingly militarized under the pressure of fighting with China , Japan 's leaders again turned to Japanese traditions and values as sources of national unity .
19 The poor themselves were presented more realistically , whether as sources of threat or as objects of pity .
20 Moreover , in such an economy marriage and children could be a positive asset , as sources of domestic labour and increased income .
21 Carbohydrates come in a variety of different forms , all of which are best regarded as sources of energy .
22 A more sinister development is the seepage of nitrate into aquifers which are used as sources of the domestic water supply .
23 Studies have highlighted the importance of families and friends as sources of mutual support for parents who have access to them .
24 You can use them to stimulate discussion , or as sources of data for tasks or projects .
25 Tribal sculpture and the painting of Cézanne , both of which were used extensively by Picasso as sources for the Demoiselles , were to be the two major influences in the creation of Cubism ; in fact the constant inspiration which Picasso and Braque drew from the art of Cézanne and the stimulation which tribal sculpture provided for Picasso were the only important outside influences in the development of a style which was to be very self-contained .
26 In practice , this was operationalized as making complex verbal requests ( even though the people served had almost no receptive or expressive language ) , and de-emphasizing ordinary household activities as sources of possible client involvement .
27 however , the strategy should switch from defence to attack such that these sites ( and others that may not qualify as the finest , rarest or most representative examples ) are protected as sources of biological quality ( Ffynnon Bywyd ? ) from which an impoverished countryside can be recolonised through schemes like ‘ Tir Cymen ’ and ESAs ;
28 The project will also examine the methodological problems associated with using institutional records as sources for wage and price data .
29 Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data .
30 Geographical interest in river basins stems largely from the fact that a large proportion of the world 's population lives close to rivers , which act as sources of water supply for human consumption and for agricultural and industrial use .
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