Example sentences of "system [was/were] the " 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 | Every country in Europe was facing an explosion in demand for health care ; every country in Europe was spending substantial public resources upon health ; and in many ways our centrally run , centrally financed system was the most effective in controlling costs . |
| 4 | The social security system was the legacy of Lord Beveridge and the post-war Attlee Government . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It originates from an Italian request to the Council of Ministers in 1973 to identify environmentally ‘ balanced ’ and ‘ unbalanced ’ areas in the Community ; the first attempts to do this were unsuccessful and , though by 1981 it was clear that a new approach based on an environmental information system was the most promising one , funding for this was not secured until 1985 . |
| 8 | If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it . |
| 9 | The AERE team 's main system was the toroidal pinch and there were several machines of this type . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The peak of this system was the separate but often closely coordinated authority wielded by bishop and ealderman over the total shire . |
| 13 | Another obstacle to the smooth functioning of the system was the geographical restrictions on each headman 's authority ; investigations often stopped on the border of an administrative division . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment . |
| 16 | The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London . |
| 17 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 18 | The system was the last shadow of the original shield in space , pursued partly because it contained exciting high technology , partly because it might possibly offer some worthwhile advantages , and partly because it could be used to show that Mr Bush had not turned his back on Mr Reagan 's dream . |
| 19 | One characteristic of the Bretton Woods system was the arrangement for fixed but adjustable exchange rates . |
| 20 | Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The tsarist political system was the critical factor distinguishing the experience of the Russian working class from that of its western counterparts . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of Russia and Prussia little need be said , for there , as has been seen ( see p. 138 ) the administrative system was the real constitution . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Dagenham — greatly to his political peril — refuses to acknowledge the resentment that was felt by those living alone because their liability under the rating system was the same as the family living in a similar property next door . |
| 28 | Expressing concern at the " increasing degradation " of the environment " which could not only endanger economic and social development , but the very basis of life itself " , the resolution asserted that the UN system was the " appropriate forum for concerted political action " on this issue . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At the heart of the system was the pope , industrious in clarification and in civilizing procedure . |