Example sentences of "system was the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The social security system was the legacy of Lord Beveridge and the post-war Attlee Government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it . |
| 8 | The AERE team 's main system was the toroidal pinch and there were several machines of this type . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | The peak of this system was the separate but often closely coordinated authority wielded by bishop and ealderman over the total shire . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment . |
| 15 | The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London . |
| 16 | Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One characteristic of the Bretton Woods system was the arrangement for fixed but adjustable exchange rates . |
| 19 | Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The tsarist political system was the critical factor distinguishing the experience of the Russian working class from that of its western counterparts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Of Russia and Prussia little need be said , for there , as has been seen ( see p. 138 ) the administrative system was the real constitution . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the heart of the system was the pope , industrious in clarification and in civilizing procedure . |
| 30 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |