Example sentences of "development was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of generalisation , however , was based on the assumption that US union development was the norm , and only British , Swedish and German unions were included in the comparison . |
| 2 | The final development was the enclosure of the upper decks of the seventeen cars , beginning with 100 and 159 in 1930 . |
| 3 | One particularly noticeable development was the way in which each group defended its position in response to the queries and suggestions of other groups . |
| 4 | The second development was the readoption of the ZOPFAN idea by the Non-Aligned Movement . |
| 5 | In this situation one of the most important dimensions of uneven development was the inequality which resulted from differences between sectors and in particular from the economic fortunes of different sectors . |
| 6 | A second crucial development was the discovery that nerve cells are spontaneously electrically active . |
| 7 | An entirely new development was the spread of the automatic machine , for example , the turret-lathe and the Norththrop automatic loom . |
| 8 | One key development was the exception to the nemo dat rule . |
| 9 | One such development was the councillor associated with the ‘ New Urban Left ’ ( Gyford 1983b ; Gyford 1985 ) . |
| 10 | By far the most important aspect of this uneven development was the undermining of the economic dominance of the United States . |
| 11 | A key catalyst of this development was the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 which awarded the Irish government a greater consultative role in Northern Irish affairs . |
| 12 | But the most significant development was the increase in the number of flats built by local authorities . |
| 13 | Another important development was the death , as far as road pricing is concerned , of Big Brother . |
| 14 | An important indicator of this development was the debate on the notion of linguistic equality which took place in 1983 at the conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain . |
| 15 | One significant development was the emergence of the neuron theory that held that the brain was composed of discrete cellular elements , the neurons , that were physically separated from each other by gaps called synapses . |
| 16 | An other major development was the establishing of a Key Account Executive position which is in daily contact with the customer and provides them with a voice within Johnson Matthey . |
| 17 | A further category of urban development was the growth of trading and financial centres . |
| 18 | In some ways the most striking development was the growth , during the sixteenth century , of a permanent diplomatic service . |
| 19 | A crucial factor in the development was the growth of property-owning by towns , probably so that rent income could compensate for deficiencies of toll revenue . |
| 20 | A more important development was the re-emergence of an illegal PKI . |
| 21 | Boss Lord Douro said that brand development was the key . |
| 22 | Dismissing the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe as a " temporary " setback , Jiang said that economic development was the key to the CCP retaining power . |
| 23 | A later development was the combination of track circuiting , in which an electrical circuit is completed by the wheels of a train passing over a section of track , with ‘ lock and block ’ so that the electric-block instruments were controlled by the trains themselves and thus safety was doubly assured . |
| 24 | Another important development was the iron horseshoe that was nailed on to the hoof . |
| 25 | Another , slightly curious development was the Commission 's judgment on the Dutch film scheme , which stipulates that only Dutch producers , or foreign producers who have lived in the Netherlands for at least two years , qualify for subsidies . |
| 26 | Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery . |
| 27 | For example , a major recent technical development was the use of PLAC for simulating depressurisation and rupture , and will allow the Health and Safety Executive to use the code for hazard assessment . |
| 28 | The next development was the use of limited motorised vehicles powered by the international combustion engine or electrically driven . |
| 29 | Indeed , his only idea of historical development was the process of adding to the number of the elect , which at a certain fixed target would bring history to an end . |
| 30 | Prominent among these developments was the rise of a new intellectual attitude towards the traditional , stable bases of Greek life , above all , its instinctive religious basis . |