Example sentences of "system was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2 . |
| 3 | since the prime contributor to the ‘ shape ’ of a safety system was the documentation and narrative , the first step in signalling this culture change was to revise and enhance its content . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only change to the personal taxation system was the reduction of the basic rate of tax on the first £2,000 of taxable income to 20 per cent from 25 per cent at a cost of £1,770 million . |
| 7 | Although Dionysius ' system was the origin of the AD sequence that we now employ , it was not made use of for nearly 200 years , the oldest known work in which it is employed being Bede 's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , of the early eighth century . |
| 8 | One characteristic of the Bretton Woods system was the arrangement for fixed but adjustable exchange rates . |
| 9 | The backbone of the system was the 60-mile [ 96-km ] road along the Great Glen linking Fort William and Fort George , to build which vast quantities of solid rock had to be blasted away along the eastern side of Loch Ness . |
| 10 | If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 13 | I have said that the most unpopular aspect of the old rating system was the fact that the single person household paid the same as the multi-occupied household next door . |
| 14 | The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment . |
| 15 | A clear symbol of the growth of a banking system was the establishment in 1773 of the London Clearing House to cope with the huge increase in inter-bank payments . |
| 16 | The social security system was the legacy of Lord Beveridge and the post-war Attlee Government . |
| 17 | At the heart of the system was the pope , industrious in clarification and in civilizing procedure . |
| 18 | It was immediately much regretted that the death penalty could not be applied to burglars and footpads , and the prison system was the object of particularly fierce criticism . |
| 19 | The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London . |
| 20 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |