Example sentences of "system [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other apparent beneficiaries of a protest vote against the existing system were the Republican Party , the Green Party and the Sicily-based La Rete ( the Network ) , which on an anti-Mafia platform became the leading party in Palermo , Sicily . |
| 2 | He said the drawbacks of such a system were the need for a safe storage depot for the wheelchairs , and the cost of installing drop kerbs all over the town centre . |
| 3 | Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One characteristic of the Bretton Woods system was the arrangement for fixed but adjustable exchange rates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The social security system was the legacy of Lord Beveridge and the post-war Attlee Government . |
| 18 | At the heart of the system was the pope , industrious in clarification and in civilizing procedure . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London . |
| 21 | 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 . |