Example sentences of "source of [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.

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1 A register is a statutory designated body that is a basis for designating liability , and a list is a source of administrative efficiency for the use of the local authority .
2 This vast stock overhangs the market , and is a source of major embarrassment for the Commission .
3 Similar stations were established by other colonizing powers , and , along with colonial geological surveys , provided an important source of professional employment for the growing number of trained European scientists .
4 Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa .
5 The following section will describe how patterns of non-verbal communication established in well-rehearsed games and social routines help in another way by providing an important source of environmental support for the development of spoken language .
6 Kin ties remain the most important source of informal care for the majority of the population …
7 They were the only source of direct involvement for the rank and file as the channel through which they expressed their demands and discontent .
8 The mass media potentially serve as an important source of scientific information for the public .
9 His works were regarded as a primary source of overriding significance for the study not merely of his own activity but of any and every aspect of the history of the revolution .
10 A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution .
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