Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] system " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice it to say that whatever the Court of Appeal 's finding there are likely to be significant procedural and resource implications as far as the administration of the complaints system is concerned and these will have to be explored during the coming year . |
| 2 | ‘ Coming on top of the extension of VAT to fuel , the administration of the benefits system is clearly in a complete mess , and [ social security secretary ] Peter Lilley has to get his act together . ’ |
| 3 | Whether tax was covered by the review or not , there were still decisions to be taken on such fundamental issues as the future of the pensions system , support for low-income families , and the special payments system which was breaking down . |
| 4 | Ir January 1985 , it became obvious that with the loss of the librarian ii the South Library , it was necessary to investigate the automation of the loans system , this being the only way in which any form of lending service could be maintained in the lower school . |
| 5 | The memo is the life blood of the communications system of the organisation . |
| 6 | The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait . |
| 7 | Indeed the Commission recommended that a new part of the honours system should be developed to give a distinctive , but equal weight to citizenship and voluntary achievements . |
| 8 | It was only part of the communications system anyway , nothing advanced . |
| 9 | Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next . |
| 10 | Batch processing in the case of the personnel system could in some areas lead to information being up to two months out of date . |
| 11 | None of these changes fully gets to grips with the central weakness of the PES system as far as social policy is concerned — the failure to integrate tax expenditures into the system in an explicit way . |
| 12 | Local authorities house people from the waiting-list on the basis of a points system , which varies between different local authorities , points being gained according to such criteria as length of time on the waiting-list , current housing situation , numbers of children , and so on . |
| 13 | THE Prime Minister yesterday matched his words about a classless society with action — sweeping away the class basis of the honours system . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister has announced a reform of the honours system saying they should be awarded on merit not seniority . |
| 15 | A reform of the PES system on the same lines is perfectly feasible . |
| 16 | The seniority-based nature of the wages system in Japan , the nenko system , has been the major focus of much discussion of the relation between rewards and performance in Japan ( see Sano , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | We have steadily improved the coverage and generosity of the benefits system . |
| 18 | The Whelan is question is Noel Whelan , a striker who 's a product of the youths system . |
| 19 | In general it would be incongruous , having myself been highly honoured , to express any criticism of the honours system , but in my view its main vice has been the determination of unsuccessful candidates to receive an award . |
| 20 | In a White Paper issued shortly after it came to office , the new Conservative administration reviewed the development of the PES system to date and argued that there should be regular in-depth reviews of spending programmes , on both a departmental and an interdepartmental basis . |
| 21 | ‘ QUANGOS have become an extension of the honours system , through which the Government can reward loyal supporters . |
| 22 | It looks as though exactly the same will happen again in respect of the benefits system . |
| 23 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 24 | He regarded the Prime Minister 's unfastidious use of the honours system as the most obviously shocking but by no means necessarily the most dangerous manifestation of the system . |
| 25 | Lord Fraser said : ‘ This is the first systematic research for a number of years on the operation of the hearings system . |
| 26 | A modified version of the spoils system continues , since the senior civil service posts of under-secretary , director general and deputy director general within ministries remain political appointments . |
| 27 | There is now an overwhelming case for the Government to undertake an urgent investigation into simplifying the structure of the benefits system . |
| 28 | Yet the purpose of the honours system is to confer a form of proxy , subsidiary , membership of this family . |
| 29 | It includes three main elements : the spread of the market system ; the spread of a communications system ; and the penetration of national institutions . |
| 30 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |