Example sentences of "system [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the design of energy management systems offers a new diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to an ideal form : like the Panopticon , the design of their microelectronic circuitry represents the functioning of control abstracted from any obstacle , resistance or friction and detached from any specific use . |
| 2 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 3 | The Memphite system represents a high achievement of Egyptian thought and probably had a limited popular appeal , being appreciated mainly by the educated classes . |
| 4 | ‘ But , in pregnancy , the immune system produces a blocking factor to stop the baby being rejected . |
| 5 | The economic system produces a large range of goods and ever increasing productivity is regarded as an important goal . |
| 6 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 7 | Every currency system involves a delicate balance of costs and benefits : no system is unambiguously right . |
| 8 | The Vauxhall 's ventilation system offers a plentiful supply of air — better than the Corrado 's — provided the fan is switched on . |
| 9 | It can be seen , therefore , that the system holds a great deal of information , both personnel details and pay details , and is completely integrated . |
| 10 | Moreover , his system has a reflex result upon the mind of the patient , and a general condition of buoyancy and freedom , and indeed of gaiety of spirit takes the place of the old jaded mental position . |
| 11 | Part of Einstein 's problems with quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle arose from the fact that he used the ordinary , commonsense notion that a system has a definite history . |
| 12 | The Report of the Swann Committee in 1985 added weight to the widely held view that in Britain 's culturally and racially pluralistic society the education system has a crucial role to play in promoting racial harmony . |
| 13 | Within the family itself , each member contributes as part of the system , being in some way a member from birth through to death , so that the system has a long history . |
| 14 | We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand . |
| 15 | We firmly believe the land use planning system has a central role to play not only in minimising the environmental and social costs of ensuring essential aggregates provision , but also in managing demand . |
| 16 | A typical domestic system has a central control unit with ( in Britain ) a 13A plug on a trailing lead . |
| 17 | The enforcement agent in a compliance system has a wide variety of roles to fulfil . |
| 18 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 19 | The new system has a catchy name , ‘ holophonics ’ , and without doubt Zuccarelli has made some impressive recordings . |
| 20 | Cray says its first massively parallel system has a scalable architecture that combines the Alpha microprocessors through a high-bandwidth , low latency interconnect network that will be an order-of-magnitude faster than those of current massively parallel systems . |
| 21 | The hydro-electric system has a special problem in the summer . |
| 22 | If the system has a high inertia , for example , the maximum stepping rate can not be attained instantaneously ; the stepping rate must be gradually increased towards the maximum value so that the motor has sufficient time to accelerate the load inertia . |
| 23 | A high proportion of the energy stored in the winding inductance at turn-off is returned to the supply and therefore the system has a high efficiency . |
| 24 | A properly functioning two-party system has a centrifugal dynamic . |
| 25 | Erm so the federal system has a constitutional basis but it also has a financial basis er and the two are er closely linked . |
| 26 | The country 's education system has a vital role to play in hallowing , protecting and furthering inequality . |
| 27 | The new operating system has a layered architecture — the lowest layer is a very small kernel that runs very fast and is suitable for lightweight applications . |
| 28 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 29 | Because the British planning system reinforces a natural tendency towards ‘ lumpy ’ growth , individual places tend to grow rapidly for a relatively short time and then consolidate more gradually , with the result that a place takes on a particular profile which then becomes relatively ‘ fossilized ’ . |
| 30 | Although Atrium Conservatory Systems uses a modular system for its high-quality hardwood structures , it is happy to produce individual modules to the dimensions required by the designer . |