Example sentences of "source [prep] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
| 2 | Other sources of changes in the money supply |
| 3 | In addition to the methods of control used by the central bank , there are a number of other sources of changes in the money supply . |
| 4 | The study identified the main sources of difficulty in the family reactions . |
| 5 | Authors of a multivariate analysis of the demographic determinants of early child mortality based on WFS data ( Hobcraft et al , 1985 ) even suggested that child-spacing and , with increasing age of the child , socio-economic attributes , such as education are the dominant sources of variation in the survival of an offspring . |
| 6 | The speech processing task consists of co-ordinating many diverse sources of knowledge in the search for an interpretation of an utterance . |
| 7 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 8 | In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% . |
| 9 | It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract . |
| 10 | Such institutions should be able to offer advice and information on hardware , software , the use of microcomputers and also access to written sources of information in the form of books and periodical articles . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for the British government , this occupation zone was unexpectedly severed from its traditional sources of food in the east , and being unable to feed itself became reliant on supplies of food from dollar areas . |
| 12 | Seeking more succulent vegetation , many herbivores have turned their attention to higher sources of food in the shrubs and trees of woodlands and forests . |
| 13 | The second case reveals even more the extent to which the legitimation of the state was a Roman catholic affair , at least as one of the two principal sources of power in the alliance . |
| 14 | It is an irony that as the government makes great claims about its job creation record for West Belfast it is at the same time in the process of running down some major sources of employment in the area , most notably the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
| 15 | His actions and ideas were those of a young man with a clear perception of what he considered to be right and wrong , and a clear understanding of what he judged to be the sources of oppression in the world . |
| 16 | There is little doubt that some of the greatest sources of evil in the world can be traced to the gross abuse of that area of human activity which is termed ‘ religion ’ . |
| 17 | The Department of Energy , for example , was responsible for providing an £80,000 grant to the Cornwall Energy Project ( CEP ) , a research group promoting the use of conservation and renewable sources of energy in the South-West peninsula , The CEP had in turn been requested by the local authorities consortium to provide evidence to the inquiry against the Electricity Board 's case . |
| 18 | The main sources of formaldehyde in the home are cavity-wall insulation and chipboard . |
| 19 | Mineralogical studies have revealed rich sources of jadeite in the valley of the Montagua river which flows through southern Guatemala to the Gulf of Honduras . |
| 20 | Whale meat made up for the lack of other sources of protein in the Japanese diet . |
| 21 | The main source for prices in the manorial era and beyond is the Beveridge Archive at the London School of Economics . |
| 22 | Veins of pitchblende in the cliff are the source of uranium in the flat floodplain deposits at the foot of the cliff . |
| 23 | There were no street lights , even though the development of the Kariba dam ensured a more reliable source of electricity in the buildings . |
| 24 | It is also true in southern Morocco , in the American Mid-West and in the Canadian Rockies , where the cavernous rocks of these reefs form the most important oil reservoirs and the chief source of wealth in the province of Alberta ( plate 1.11 ) . |
| 25 | But as the months passed and the winter fogs thickened , Mr Punch discovered a new source of inspiration in the hoop-skirt , transforming it into an ingenious anti-garotte device whereby its flowing dimensions could prevent a street robber from approaching his intended victim . |
| 26 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 27 | What is the source of misunderstanding in the following ending to a conversation between an English native speaker ( N ) and a foreign learner ( F ) , and how would you remedy it ? |
| 28 | The other source of change in the provision of legal services is the fundamental reform of the legal profession effected by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ; that is dealt with in Chapter 3 . |
| 29 | ( b ) United Kingdom delegated legislation In terms of quantity , the most prolific source of legislation in the United Kingdom today is not enactment by Parliament . |
| 30 | This form of self-help obviously squares up well with the close-knit group contacts of a minority community ; moreover , West Indians have been prominent in the credit union movement in this country ( largely because credit unions are an important source of credit in the West Indies ) . |