Example sentences of "important source of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money sent home has become an important source of income for the country — especially from those who live in the United States and send remittances to their families in dollars . |
| 2 | Almost every dairy farm in Ayrshire produced Dunlop cheese and it became a thriving small industry which was an important source of income for the county 's farmers throughout the many difficult times for agriculture in the late 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 3 | Domestic work provides an important source of income for a campesino family and the earnings of many domestic workers are sent home . |
| 4 | This is one important source of discretion for implementers . |
| 5 | The evidence on child care reviewed above suggests that mothers continue to be an important source of support for their daughters , both in practical ways and by giving advice and moral support . |
| 6 | Having achieved this , they provoked disquiet in two quarters : first , those concerned with the defence of Basrah , up the river to the north , and the nearby port of Umm Qasr ; and , second , the government of Kuwait ( an important source of support for Iraq throughout the war ) , which had already suffered air attacks and was to be struck again before the fighting was over . |
| 7 | Experience : persons who have been in other types of consulting seem to adapt more rapidly to executive search and this should be an important source of consultants for Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 8 | Of course the redundancy payment was an important source of capital for many older workers and , therefore , contributed to the decision about early retirement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Owen was also put in charge of the College 's museum , an important source of specimens for comparative anatomy . |
| 11 | Their garbage dumps are the single most important source of nutrition for feral dogs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's a very attractive plant with its many purple flowers , and is an important source of nectar for bumble bees . |
| 14 | Such late flowering plants are an important source of nectar for late flying insects . |
| 15 | Hedgerows are an important source of protection for flora and fauna , and it is sad that the Government have not dealt with that situation in a positive and effective way . |
| 16 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 17 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 18 | The mushrooming of aid budgets in the 1970s turned aid into a fairly important source of business for some small and medium-sized companies in Europe and elsewhere , indicated by the formation of pressure groups in many European Community ( EC ) countries to ensure that an increased proportion of national aid budgets ended up in the hands of that country 's exporters . |
| 19 | The most important source of infection for the lamb crop is undoubtedly the increase in nematode eggs in ewe faeces during the PPR and prophylaxis will only be efficient if this is kept to a minimum . |
| 20 | Despite their distinctiveness , they had a good deal in common with the other upper-class groups ; and they were an important source of loans for the growing group of entrepreneurs . |
| 21 | During the 1950s and 1960s , the debenture market was an important source of funds for domestic British companies . |
| 22 | However , our findings certainly show that interested analysts do not regard Wellcome 's annual report as the most important source of information for making ongoing investment decisions in their day to day work . |
| 23 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | It also acts as an important source of information for disabled people , acting as an advocate where necessary . |
| 26 | The latter , who was writing in Burgundy , is an important source of information for the kingdom of the Burgundians . |
| 27 | At that time the wildlife in my village — as in the rest of Vietnam — was very rich , and was an important source of food for us . |
| 28 | In theory , the bank networks should provide an important source of leads for their factoring subsidiaries . |
| 29 | Products from logwood formed an important source of dyestuffs for silk , and more important , woollen cloth . |
| 30 | Drought resulted in decreased root growth and slower breakdown of soil litter , an important source of magnesium for forest trees . |