important source

collocation in English

meaningsofimportantandsource

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important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/
us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/
us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofimportantandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, predicted relationships associated with quantifiers also provide animportantsourceof information about how sentences are related.
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Participation in religious activities was the leastimportantsourceof meaning for all women sampled, regardless of age and country of residence.
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Nevertheless, projects evaluating control strategies under field conditions, are animportantsource of information for decisions about the practicability and efficacy of intervention measures.
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Anotherimportantsourceof support comes from the information extraction and text mining field which allow the detection and extraction of relevant information from texts.
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Since natural enemies are animportantsourceof mortality, conservation biological control is a tactic to be considered.
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These organisms are animportantsourceof nutrition for fish and this has important ramifications for parasite transmission.
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Exploratory expressions should be seen as anotherimportantsourceof variation, on which reanalysis can work when grammaticalization takes place.
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In the schoolaged population at least, no difference in participation rates according to nationality was observed, thus excluding nationality as animportantsourceof bias.
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In an agrarian environment, ownership of land remains the mostimportantsourceof subsistence and employment.
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The relatively moreimportantsourceterms in this partial coalescence interaction are the second and the third source terms, as suggested by figure 16.
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Developing economies are diverse and complex, and in most cases agriculture remains animportantsource of employment, output and foreign currency earnings.
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The nobility possessed large estates which formed animportantsourceof employment.
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As the mostimportantsourceof staple grains, the endosperm is measured for a phenotypic trait of interest.
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The leaves could also be animportantsourceof minerals and vitamins.
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The data indicate that subsidized loans are animportantsourceof finance for low- countries.
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The discussion above, however, is incomplete and misses out on animportantsourceof heterogeneity.
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This hierarchization continued to serve as animportantsourceof social recognition for architects and designers.
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The extended family was clearly still animportantsourceof leisure and companionship within the lives of many women in the 1940s and beyond.
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