Example sentences of "development was the " in BNC.
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1 | Another important development was the death , as far as road pricing is concerned , of Big Brother . |
2 | The other concurrent development was the growing and irrepressible conviction that the inhabitants of India would claim and must sooner or later obtain responsibility for their own government . |
3 | Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery . |
4 | The development was the ‘ most exciting discovery of the last decade ’ because it opened up new treatment avenues . |
5 | Another important development was the iron horseshoe that was nailed on to the hoof . |
6 | The final development was the enclosure of the upper decks of the seventeen cars , beginning with 100 and 159 in 1930 . |
7 | Counterpointing this forward-looking development was the forthcoming Tramway Centenary in 1985 , involving the operation of museum cars from other systems . |
8 | An entirely new development was the spread of the automatic machine , for example , the turret-lathe and the Norththrop automatic loom . |
9 | Like it , the basis for development was the ‘ unit ’ — an enquiry based topic which might be used in any order and at more than one level . |
10 | One development was the Military Reconnaissance Force , or MRF . |
11 | Boss Lord Douro said that brand development was the key . |
12 | Indeed , his only idea of historical development was the process of adding to the number of the elect , which at a certain fixed target would bring history to an end . |
13 | This type of generalisation , however , was based on the assumption that US union development was the norm , and only British , Swedish and German unions were included in the comparison . |
14 | The second development was the French decision in the 1960s to leave the NATO command structure . |
15 | He believed that combining the selective use of headhunters with sound internal management development was the most effective way to establish a management team . |
16 | One significant development was the emergence of the neuron theory that held that the brain was composed of discrete cellular elements , the neurons , that were physically separated from each other by gaps called synapses . |
17 | A second crucial development was the discovery that nerve cells are spontaneously electrically active . |
18 | One striking development was the two clusters of ILR stations accumulated by Crown Communications and Capital Radio ( themselves part owned by other organizations ) . |
19 | Another , slightly curious development was the Commission 's judgment on the Dutch film scheme , which stipulates that only Dutch producers , or foreign producers who have lived in the Netherlands for at least two years , qualify for subsidies . |
20 | One such development was the councillor associated with the ‘ New Urban Left ’ ( Gyford 1983b ; Gyford 1985 ) . |
21 | A further category of urban development was the growth of trading and financial centres . |
22 | One key development was the exception to the nemo dat rule . |
23 | In some ways the most striking development was the growth , during the sixteenth century , of a permanent diplomatic service . |
24 | In this situation one of the most important dimensions of uneven development was the inequality which resulted from differences between sectors and in particular from the economic fortunes of different sectors . |
25 | A more important development was the re-emergence of an illegal PKI . |
26 | But the most significant development was the increase in the number of flats built by local authorities . |
27 | An important indicator of this development was the debate on the notion of linguistic equality which took place in 1983 at the conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain . |
28 | A key catalyst of this development was the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 which awarded the Irish government a greater consultative role in Northern Irish affairs . |
29 | A later development was the combination of track circuiting , in which an electrical circuit is completed by the wheels of a train passing over a section of track , with ‘ lock and block ’ so that the electric-block instruments were controlled by the trains themselves and thus safety was doubly assured . |
30 | The second development was the readoption of the ZOPFAN idea by the Non-Aligned Movement . |