Example sentences of "[art] system [vb -s] a " in BNC.

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1 Based mostly on using a laser-disc player controlled by a Mac II , the system allows a user to explore — as the developers like to say — the painting and its history .
2 At present the system allows a large vocabulary of English words which can be represented in memory with practical size and processing requirements , and is searchable in real time .
3 The system involves a network of roadside beacons , with " smart cards " , complete with a reader and meter fitted inside the vehicle .
4 I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch .
5 To hold the pound within its margins the system requires a member country to intervene in the markets when its currency diverges 75 per cent of the way to its permitted fluctuation margins , either side of the central rate .
6 In the next Chapter , for example , it is shown that the system requires a large forcing resistance to operate at the highest speeds and in most cases the total phase resistance is then much greater than the optimum for electromagnetic damping .
7 The system offers a fast and reliable method of electronically collecting attendance ‘ clockings ’ for immediate analysis by any managers authorised to access the system .
8 As the NCC insists , the system offers a ‘ curricular language which all pupils and parents can share ’ ( NCC 1989a : 2 ) .
9 The example also illustrates how the flexibility of the system enables a student 's developing interests to be accommodated .
10 If customers have accounts at the hotel , the system keeps a track of all expenditure and payments .
11 The system divides a piece of project work into four basic stages .
12 The system represents a minutely balanced interplay of interests between state and individuals , political right and left , church and state , private and public welfare .
13 The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet .
14 The system represents a remarkable evolutionary adaptation of human behaviour patterns to the conditions of the rain forest .
15 The system uses a lot of line , and pulleys plus tough gloves are suggested for operation of the ‘ loop ’ .
16 The system uses a sliding frequency guiding filter to regulate the speed of the soliton waves .
17 The system uses a graphical interface to enable users to collect and analyse data and control and configure the system by using icons .
18 The system uses a gas burner to heat the spraying sheet , thereby changing the way in which the drops are formed and producing a narrow drop-size spectrum , with few small particles .
19 The system provides a machine-readable dictionary ( MRD ) marked up with generic tags .
20 The system comprises a floor standing tower of vector parallel processors that work with a Fujitsu flat-bed scanner and output to a personal computer or departmental minicomputer .
21 Although kanban is highly developed in Japan , the system reflects a universal desire of management to reduce production costs by treating inventories as ‘ the root of all evil ’ ( Hayes 1981 p.59 ) .
22 The system constructs a logical form by making a number of decisions in a fixed order , and if the result is unacceptable , it is always later decisions that are altered first .
23 The system has a control centre , an infra-red motion detector , a door and window contact sensor , a portable remote control unit and an external siren .
24 Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history .
25 The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation .
26 The system has a 20,000-word vocabulary and can take dictation at 70 words per minute with 97% accuracy , once it has been trained to a user 's pronunciation .
27 A high proportion of the energy stored in the winding inductance at turn-off is returned to the supply and therefore the system has a high efficiency .
28 If the system has a high inertia , for example , the maximum stepping rate can not be attained instantaneously ; the stepping rate must be gradually increased towards the maximum value so that the motor has sufficient time to accelerate the load inertia .
29 Liability will not be avoided simply because the system has a fault and the same principles apply here as in the case of conventional computer software .
30 In exothermic reactions the system loses energy until the total enthalpy of the system reaches a minimum .
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