Example sentences of "source of energy for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The source of energy for a muscle contraction is Adenosine Triphosphate ( A.T.P. ) and this occurs in very small amounts in human muscle . |
| 2 | Lovins dismissed the development of nuclear power as the primary source of energy for industrial growth in the developing world , by estimating that in order to generate the level of energy pro-nuclear scientists were calling for , a new plant would have to come on stream every eleven hours throughout 54 years of actual construction , a financial impossibility . |
| 3 | These organic compounds , ultimately derived from food , are the necessary source of energy for animals . |
| 4 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 5 | After approximately ten hours of fasting , the body needs a good source of energy for the rigours of the day to come . |
| 6 | They are dynamic in the sense that they are a source of energy for later behaviour . |
| 7 | From 1880 to 1945 coal was the greatest single source of energy for her industry . |
| 8 | Being little more than thin skinned bags of sugary carbohydrate sap from the plants they are sucking , they are an easily taken source of energy for many predators , including other insects and birds — a slaughter that is countered by the extraordinarily rapid rate of reproduction . |
| 9 | The town brook , now covered over , became a source of energy for saw mills and other trades . |
| 10 | An alternative explanation is that the solid core at the centre of the Earth 's liquid iron core is an essential source of energy for a powerful magnetic dipole moment ( section 2.1.7 ) . |
| 11 | They are the dynamos of the cell being the site where sugars are oxidised to form Adenosine Triphosphate ( ATP ) , the chemical which is the immediate source of energy for most vital processes . |
| 12 | If the density increases upwards , then buoyancy forces provide an additional source of energy for the turbulence . |