Example sentences of "[adj] system [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal
2 It used to be considered that simulator specifications could only be proposed when the on-line system design had been completed but there are considerable advantages in developing the simulator before the on-line system so that it becomes a dynamic mock-up of the real situation .
3 Data-gathering provides an early-warning system so that the situation can be analysed soon after the trend has begun to take shape and corrective measures can be applied promptly .
4 Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way .
5 This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here .
6 An increasing number of Italians now want to adopt a British first-past-the-post system so that there can be a periodic clean sweep , of the kind Britain experienced in 1964 and 1979 .
7 These patterns are related to the patterns of input but already selective recoding has begun , since some aspects of the input will activate the nervous system more than others .
8 The fact that Europe was split into ten zones reflects the politics of the global system rather than its technology , and suggests that ‘ the world is not shrinking everywhere like a deflated balloon , but very irregularly , more like a dried apple , furrowed and distorted ’ ( Cherry , 1978 , p.135 ) .
9 For example , if one reads bread and , the logogen for butter will receive some input ( collect some evidence ) from the cognitive system even before the word butter is actually seen .
10 It would have been more appropriate to limit oneself to making political comment and to exploring the limitations of the ideas and concepts that underlie a capitalist system rather than directing the criticism towards the cognitive capacity or development of particular groups or individuals .
11 One final point to remember is that goods despatched before 31 December will be treated as exports within the existing system even if they are to arrive on 1 January or later .
12 The trick is to get as much of the system installed as you can alongside the existing system so that you can change over all in one go .
13 The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links .
14 The computations are thus interpretative processes , carried out by the visual system considered as a symbol-manipulating system rather than simply as a physical transducer ( though Marr attempts to ground his computational hypotheses in specific facts of visual psychophysiology ) .
15 For example , edges tend to activate the visual system more than areas of uniform brightness .
16 If we have the same legal system even as continental Europe , trade union membership in Britain will be at least two million higher than it is today , but let's not delude ourselves .
17 Put more bluntly , the Big Six in the US appear to be putting a pistol to the public 's head and saying : if you want continuation of the audit services we provide , then change the legal system so that we can maximise our economic return on our investment on auditing .
18 He said the next government , whatever its colour , must make attempts to improve the legal system so that youngsters were not allowed out on bail to commit more offences .
19 in these years [ 1964–1970 ] … the pressures generated within the post-war system substantially and visibly escaped from control .
20 if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones …
21 All the while , the political climate was continuing to change , favouring a radical overhaul of the regulatory system rather than further piecemeal reform .
22 Such people were the most irreducible problem for the Communist system everywhere and perhaps its ultimate downfall .
23 The evidence for these systems is generally personal and tends to reinforce our view that it is attitude of the teacher or parent which determines adherence to a given system rather than any objective verification .
24 Thus it is an open system rather than a closed one and its behaviour can not be understood by simply looking at the relationship between inputs and outputs .
25 Our proposal is a modest one : we are trying to implement a more just system rather than tackling a great injustice .
26 As expected , the main thrust of the release is to tidy up the way that the system will work in large enterprises by presenting the network as a single system rather than a collection of individual servers needing separate logins .
27 The Socialists ( 24.5 per cent ) had considered merging with the Communists when the war ended to create a single working-class party but their leaders , like Leon Blum , believed that the road to socialism lay through a liberal-democratic political system rather than a Soviet-style regime .
28 This failure undermines governmental authority and weakens the legitimacy of the whole political system so that the governability of the nation is called into question .
29 If the mens rea principle and the principle of proof are objectives worthy of a rational and humane system of criminal law they ought to be used critically to assess the achievement of the total system rather than circularly to select an acceptable portion of the criminal law .
30 We should be looking at ways of being more selective about treatment , and I think one of the reasons for wishing to study miocenia gravis in such detail is to be able to get so inside the mechanism of production of the disease that we can in fact simply turn off the miocenia disease process and leave the rest of the immune system just as it was .
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