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 | Whilst Apple were undoubtedly the first to successfully market a desktop publishing system , it was Xerox who invented it , the business world tends to run on PC-type systems rather than Macintoshes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | In reality , it is often much harder to classify actual systems unambiguously than this simple dichotomy would suggest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | IBM and AT&T , America 's behemoth computer and telephone companies , announced they are adapting their network-management systems so that customers can connect them more easily . |
| 13 | the reform of judicial and penal systems so that only criminals are sent to prison , and ensuring that while they are there , their basic human rights are strictly respected ; and |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | For example , edges tend to activate the visual system more than areas of uniform brightness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | in these years [ 1964–1970 ] … the pressures generated within the post-war system substantially and visibly escaped from control . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | All the while , the political climate was continuing to change , favouring a radical overhaul of the regulatory system rather than further piecemeal reform . |
| 26 | Such people were the most irreducible problem for the Communist system everywhere and perhaps its ultimate downfall . |
| 27 | So that , I think , is where this research ought to go , into truly expert systems rather than in statistical machines , which is what it is at the moment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But the technological complexities of open systems today and of some other system in the near future will not . |