Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] system [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This public software will not take the form of a turnkey system which can simply be loaded and run . |
| 2 | Paul Cook , professor of laser technology at Brunel and inventor of a laser system which detects causes of night blindness and other eye defects , recently formed and became president of the British Science and Technology Trust . |
| 3 | Whilst it is not possible to conceive of a designing system which can take into account influences which are beyond the designer 's knowledge and comprehension , it is possible to generate a fundamental design procedure in which all relationships , known to the designer , are " captured " and tested for . |
| 4 | Those would assess if they would be among the winners and losers from the reform of a tax system which Mr Lamont said was starting to appear increasingly anachronistic . |
| 5 | The international system is often conceived along the lines of a market system whose moving force is maximization . |
| 6 | For the ‘ planning of developed areas ’ ( redevelopment ) for example , we read : This was hardly encouraging to any local authority , nor suggestive of a planning system which could deliver much . |
| 7 | He also suggests that the Japanese dominate the market partly because of their domestic need for a communications system which could accommodate an alphabet of some 2,000 characters . |
| 8 | The medium-to long-term outlook is optimistic ; the success of the Modular Course educationally , academically , and as a management system which has maintained high morale among staff during difficult times , makes it a hard example to ignore . |
| 9 | There is something very disturbing about a benefit system which will prop up Mr Deaves until he gets back on his business feet , yet is reluctant to help people who are literally out on the streets . |
| 10 | Cash or a cheque has to be produced to pay a rate demand ; in contrast , VAT is absorbed in the price of a commodity or service and most people pay income tax through a PAYE system which means that money is deducted before it is received . |
| 11 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 12 | Swollen egos battled meaninglessly with a security system which did its level best , but the organisational problems were almost overwhelming . |
| 13 | For those readers who are optically minded , you might also like to ponder over the design difficulties associated with a lens system which comes into direct contact with water , where the refractive indices of the organic water-based lens and the surrounding watery medium itself are very similar . |
| 14 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 15 | She was a friend and adviser for the family as they tried to negotiate a path through an education system which was not always easy to understand . |
| 16 | A report from the National Audit Office last week revealed that £21.3 million in Social Fund loans had been ‘ incorrectly transferred ’ from a computer system which had broken down . |
| 17 | In addition you could benefit from a messaging system which turns your mobile phone into an answerphone when not in use . |
| 18 | In the plan , British Telecom would install videodisc players at the point in a cable system which links up subscribers TV sets . |
| 19 | Thus Jowell has commented that ‘ the major omission of the report is its failure to see development control 's place in a planning system whose scope has expanded radically since 1968 … somehow development control has not kept pace with this change ’ . |
| 20 | Clearance and redevelopment took their toll in a planning system which decreed that the densities deemed acceptable by the Victorian house builders were not appropriate for the late twentieth century . |
| 21 | Rapid reversibility is what is needed in a control system which must respond to environmental changes which may be transient , such as the presence or absence of galactosides . |
| 22 | We can not afford to have failures in a health system which needs to use every hospital and every health care worker if it is to cope with the demands of the twenty first century . |
| 23 | On an average day in 1999 there were 49,979 people in prison in England and Wales , in a prison system which had room for only 44 , 179 . |
| 24 | How will young people , no matter what their attainment , ability or background , be able to derive a sense of equal value and worth in an education system which clearly articulates delineation according to attainment and the increasing compartmentalisation of fact and knowledge ? |
| 25 | The focal point will be a direction board linked to a sign system which will take people through the 860-bed hospital . |
| 26 | The information is relayed to a computer system which can be tapped by SeaWatch 's clients , which include governments , the fishing , oil and tourism industries and environmental agencies . |
| 27 | For the Nov. 16 poll against Democrat Edwin Edwards , Duke 's campaign emphasized the themes that had promoted his rapid political rise : opposition to affirmative action , to high taxes , to crime , and to a welfare system which , he said , encouraged mothers to have more babies just to increase their benefits . |
| 28 | Is not it madness to be spending billions of pounds on a missile system which does not deter and may not work — and when we have no one at whom to point it ? |
| 29 | How can the Prime Minister possibly justify spending £23,000 million in capital and maintenance on a missile system which does not work properly , which does not deter , which is not independent and against whom there is now no one to target it ? |
| 30 | Such individuals were to be the standard-bearers of an agricultural revolution based on a farming system which overcame the limitations of African soils by the scientific rotation of crops and their integration with livestock . |