Example sentences of "[adj] system was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motive for this system was the provision of income for the royal treasury from the fees charged on the transaction of money-changing ; it was not prompted by any financial crisis . |
| 2 | The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London . |
| 3 | The basis of these systems was the allocation of credit points to parts of courses so that candidates could move from one course to another or from one centre to another and carry credit for past achievement , where that achievement was relevant to the new course . |
| 4 | The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment . |
| 5 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
| 6 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 7 | If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it . |
| 8 | Later moving to the RAE at Farnborough , it acquired service roundels and serial number VX147 , and its unusual two-control system was the subject of much investigation by them and by A&AEE at Boscombe Down . |