Example sentences of "system [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( ii ) VHD : Very High Density ( The grooveless capacitance disc ) This system plays back two frames per revolution and holds 45,000 still frames .
2 Unlike the institutions of art which help produce cultural objects , the education system produces not cultural objects , but consumers of art to match the cultural products .
3 North American trials have shown that system offers much faster drying rates than with conventional swaths , reduced field losses and a higher fibre digestibility rate for livestock .
4 Each of these systems involves quite different risks and responsibilities for the employer , contractor and surveyor who may be involved in the design and/or management of the project .
5 We wanted a name you could remember but because our new secret-fix roofing system has so many advantages we were spoilt for choice .
6 In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable .
7 The system has fairly low specificity ; topics are not included on the usual basis of literary warrant , but rather on the basis of organizational warrant .
8 The accounting system has relatively few users — about five in London , 10 in New York and two in Hong Kong .
9 A direct system has only one water circuit which supplies both the taps and the radiators .
10 If a dissipative system has only one attractor , its behaviour as unc might not seem to depend very much on its initial conditions .
11 To put it crudely , the global capitalist system has very little need of the subordinate classes in this sphere .
12 The US-style new issue system has much lower commissions than its Eurobond counterpart .
13 The Aplysia nervous system contains relatively few nerve cells , but amongst them are some which are rather large .
14 As the temperature drops towards T 2 the number of available configurational states in the system decreases until at the temperature T 2 the system possesses only one degree of freedom .
15 In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text .
16 With this approach the vocabulary can be infinite and the system requires significantly less training .
17 To utilise fully a CAD system requires only one work-station for three draughtsmen .
18 As modules are set into ‘ hard-copy only ’ state , indicating that the offline magnetic copy is no longer required , the system calculates how many modules are still needed on a particular media item .
19 NAC says the system takes only 30 minutes to install , 30 seconds to reboot and its documentation is only 30 pages .
20 Network Appliance says the system takes only 30 minutes to install , 30 seconds to reboot and its documentation is only 30 pages .
21 Those are the key points for farmers to remember when they get their Integrated Administration and Control System forms later this week .
22 OPSIS system throws up interesting facts
23 The system picks up these sorts of problems straightaway . ’
24 The British electoral system presents practically insuperable obstacles for small parties to overcome .
25 Manager Sallie Dickinson said the new system gives very exact figures .
26 The system determines how many groups are active at the appropriate level for the appropriate table in the Working-Set to which the entries are being transferred , and allocates entries on a roughly equal basis .
27 Unlike the Arabic grammatical system , the English system makes very few distinctions in terms of number , gender , and verb agreement .
28 A Geographical Information System provides just such capabilities .
29 The information system comprises nearly 1,000 items on approximately 20,000 pages .
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