Find the part of the sentence that contains an error: What the council could not anticipate (1)/ was that the regulatory changes, sudden as they seemed, (2)/ were in fact a culmination of several years (3)/ of there being dissatisfaction within the sector. (4)
(4)
Part (4) reads "of there being dissatisfaction within the sector". After the preposition of in "a culmination of several years of ___", a plain noun is needed.
The construction "there being" is unnecessary and awkward here; the correct, concise form is "several years of dissatisfaction within the sector".
Part (1) is a correct noun clause subject, part (2) correctly uses the inverted concessive "sudden as they seemed", and part (3) "were in fact a culmination of several years" agrees with the plural subject "changes".
Hence, the error is in part (4): "of there being dissatisfaction" should be "of dissatisfaction".
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