Example sentences of "system was the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
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 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 .
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 One characteristic of the Bretton Woods system was the arrangement for fixed but adjustable exchange rates .
8 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 .
9 If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it .
10 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 .
11 Many people , therefore , encoded his conclusion to be that the limbic system was the seat of emotion .
12 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 .
13 The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment .
14 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 .
15 The social security system was the legacy of Lord Beveridge and the post-war Attlee Government .
16 At the heart of the system was the pope , industrious in clarification and in civilizing procedure .
17 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 .
18 The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London .
19 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 .
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