Example sentences of "that the system " in BNC.

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1 The Shah 's regime was a transplant that the system had rejected : ‘ The rejection of a transplant — once it begins , the process is irreversible .
2 The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes .
3 Their public defence is that the system brought together the industrial and political arms of the labour movement : abandon the block vote and you betray Labour 's parentage .
4 It 's very clear to anybody that the system is cracking . ’
5 At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 .
6 Foreign organizers soon discovered that the system seemed to be modelled on Trotsky 's military commissars .
7 Marx 's analysis of capitalism shows that the system of exploitation of workers by capitalists appears inevitable because of a previous concentration of the means of production in the hands of the capitalists .
8 Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men .
9 The class system created to operate the new economy in both the case of capitalism and ancient society leads to such opposition , exploitation , and contradiction that the system for which it was created collapses .
10 They might not , however , follow Marx and Engels in their conclusion that the system on which their own society is based will therefore also be overthrown , but it is difficult to seen how such a conclusion can be avoided .
11 Instead the results suggest that the system requires an occasional rhythmic input from the outside world to run smoothly .
12 After 13 years of development the latest flight tests showed that the system , which costs an estimated $9 billion , was ‘ marginally operationally effective and marginally operationally suitable , ’ according to a recent declassifed navy report .
13 They reveal that the system has problems detecting , identifying , or jamming some enemy radars already in existence for decades .
14 It seems that the system of central planning , adopted after the Communist Party took power in 1948 , did bring some economic progress in the 1950s and even into the 1960s .
15 But what is really important , it will be argued , is that the system triumphed .
16 ‘ The crux of the matter , ’ says Deborah Wearing of the Amnesia Association , ‘ is that the system recognises physical disability , mental handicap and mental injury ; those three categories have budgets and departments and care units .
17 ‘ What we have to admit is that the system we are now overthrowing did give us something .
18 Mr Howard said that the system was not only obscure but also ineffective .
19 Authorities , borrowing heavily to meet budget shortfalls caused by non-payment , concede that the system is creaking , with collection and rebate allocation well behind schedule after countless Government amendments .
20 ‘ It was also thought that the system would provide more flotation in water , and provide better protection if the crew came down in desert or Artic conditions .
21 Opponents of proportional representation would argue that the system gives Genscher and the FDP a disproportionate amount of power — music to the ears of Paddy Ashdown , anathema to Labour and Conservatives .
22 What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ?
23 Otherwise , there will be a tendency to rely on the information that the system provides without adequately reviewing the underlying assumptions upon which it is based .
24 But because so much money and technical faith had been invested in the project no one thought to check the information elsewhere or suspect that the system might be fallible .
25 The Leeds researchers claim that the system developed there , the adjournment system , has resulted in lower truancy rates than elsewhere in the country .
26 Unless there is personal identification and commitment , then there is no responsibility for making things work — one of the reasons for the generally poor attendance levels at meetings where governors present their annual report to parents is that the system is imposed on schools .
27 Its main function , however , is to ensure that the system rids itself of unwanted air .
28 There is probably an equal number of people , for example , who think that the less able have a poor deal , and that the system should be geared more towards improving their lot , and on the other hand of those who think that it is the most able who suffer , and that we are wasting our educational resources unless we tilt the system towards them .
29 Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting .
30 It is intended that the system of Special Discounts should continue in subsequent years , although the percentage discount and the rules by which policies will qualify may vary from year to year and the possibility can not be ruled out that circumstances may arise which would make it inappropriate to grant any Special Discount at all .
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