Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the development of " in BNC.

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1 It has the most concentrated design community north of London and over 70 local companies were consulted on the development of this new course .
2 All reports to this date were looking to the development of a large area to the north of Saville Street in North Shields town centre with a view to creating a new shopping centre which would serve a population of some 70 000 , although at various times more grandiose claims about potential catchment area were made .
3 During Innocent 's pontificate great strides were made in the development of the delegated judicial system .
4 They were used in the development of the syntax and collocational components of RM1 and provide data on which these should do well , while offering a naturally occurring distribution of segments .
5 While several person-months were invested in the development of a semantic net whose links were labeled with terms from Roget 's , the profit from this investment was not substantial .
6 These material rewards were accompanied by the development of a court life which embodied the military ethos and chivalric ideals of aristocratic society .
7 The effects of long-term neuroleptic treatment and the symptoms of tardive dyskinesia were associated to the development of central dopaminergic supersensitivity .
8 This attitude changed by the 1950s and was emphasized by the development of cybernetics , information theory and operations research .
9 Within the Sheffield proposal and Training Agency requirements , a high profile was given to the development of Careers Education and Guidance , Work-Experience , industry visits and work shadowing , all of which could be provided through a partnership .
10 As a result of the first evaluation special attention was given to the development of more participatory methods of health education .
11 Phase 1 of this project was completed with the development of the BGS sediment decompaction and three-dimensional geothermal modelling package HOTPOT .
12 This option was considered during the development of FRED 1 , but was not pursued as legal advice indicated that , because the Companies Act envisaged extraordinary items , the possibility of using the statutory heading had to remain .
13 To the traditional tasks of improving the climate in which members practice and provide them with support was added to the development of policies in fields such as housing , planning , energy and the environment and community architecture .
14 Moving to the dais , the Lord Lieutenant then heard a speech of welcome by Mr D G Titcombe , in which reference was made to the development of autocatalysts since 1970 , including the Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement made to the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre in 1977 .
15 The award was made for the development of the Vortoil hydrocyclone unit for separating oil droplets from water .
16 This was facilitated by the development of a remarkable notation for numbers , the Maya being among the most numerate civilizations there have ever been .
17 Another reading of these sentences by the same speaker was used in the development of RM1 and is a concise test of acoustic-phonetic rules .
18 Serge Mallet ( 1969 ) , writing in the context of developments in political theory in France , and hence particularly concerned with issues of class consciousness and conflict , took a view directly contrary to Woodward , arguing that new technology was leading to the development of new forms of class conflict that would threaten fundamentally the stability of the existing structure of the capitalist enterprise .
19 Interest was growing in the development of some sort of European multilateral nuclear force ( MLF ) , albeit one that was ultimately under American control .
20 Interest , however , was growing in the development of American bases on some tiny British controlled Indian Ocean islands .
21 BR could claim that even before the Monopoly Commission report 's comments on the need for a new rolling-stock policy it was moving towards the development of stock for use on all regions , having introduced Class 313 25kV AC/750V DC ( dual voltage ) inner-suburban stock in 1976 for the Great Northern electrification scheme followed in 1978 by Class 507 750V DC third-rail stock for Merseyrail ( Midland Region ) ; and Class 314 25kV AC stock in Scotland .
22 While it was widely believed that Bush was not as emotionally committed to the SDI programme as Reagan , his administration was proceeding with the development of revised versions of the concept , notably " Brilliant Pebbles ' .
23 About 17 acres was scheduled for the development of over 200 houses by Poole Borough Council , which had granted itself planning permission in early 1989 .
24 In June 1986 he unveiled a five year development programme for the occupied territories , proposing to spend $1,200 million , which depended upon funding from Jordan 's Western friends , particularly the United States and the European Community , and was focused on the development of the rural and commercial sectors , the two areas deemed least supportive of the PLO .
25 This was accompanied by the development of a system of private property .
26 Freud thought that the need for a long period of education for young men and women in the ‘ civilized ’ sections of modern societies was linked with the development of neurotic illness because of the deferment of sexual gratification necessary while education took place .
27 Poulantzas ' own position was to argue for the development of a Marxist , structuralist account which provides for the state to have only a relative autonomy and never a true autonomy .
28 Fear of teacher bias and classroom indoctrination , a perennial concern , was magnified by the development of Peace Studies .
29 For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification .
30 He was led into the development of sensitive instruments for this purpose , and his most lasting achievement was undoubtedly the ‘ gold-leaf electroscope ’ which could still be found 200 years later in school science laboratories as a detector of electrical charge .
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