Example sentences of "[verb] a system [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they are not against parking charges , but want the council to find a system acceptable to the public . |
| 2 | As we shall see in chapter 13 the Greeks , even the militarily professional Spartans , did not develop a system comparable to the Roman imperium militiae or the dictatorship , which are both ways of relieving a commander from the normal political constraints on decisive action . |
| 3 | They use a system similar to that developed by some of the live-bearing reptiles but one that is enormously more efficient . |
| 4 | They have a system similar to the Royal Humane Society , and make awards of gold , silver and bronze medals to people who have saved the lives of others from fire . |
| 5 | thought that , … in preference to the suggestion that there might be more frequent recommendations for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , it might be possible to introduce a system similar to that adopted in some parts of the United States under which a distinction was made between murder in the first and second degree , the death penalty being reserved for cases of the former kind . |