Example sentences of "system which [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They established a three-tier court system which had exclusive authority to punish crime . |
| 2 | The fate of the six people involved in the snackbar death reflected some of the bad practices which they said should be corrected through the institution of a truly socialist legal system which had human rights incorporated into it . |
| 3 | In the face of growing needs arising from an ageing population , the only substantial source of funds available for care was through the Social Security System which enabled elderly people to enter voluntary and private nursing homes whereas the funds to develop care at home by health and social services were limited and restrained as part of the overall policy to reduce public spending . |
| 4 | CATANIA 'S CULTURE CLASH A complicated system which meant 42 games were played in one day cast a shadow — albeit a small one — over three days of full blooded sevens . |
| 5 | His main issue was the need to promote economic growth through free trade , free markets , less government spending , better education and a fair taxation system which outlawed market-distorting tax subsidies and investment shelters . |
| 6 | Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law . |
| 7 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 8 | Among the benefits to be abolished was the Death Grant , to be replaced by a system which gave full help to families who needed it and none to those who did not . |
| 9 | This theory was backed up by an elaborate logical system which gave strict rules for the production of unambiguous definitions of species in terms of their genus and their difference from other related species , and for the validity and relevance of syllogisms . |
| 10 | Here the employers consolidated an industrial relations system which ensured maximum control . |
| 11 | A whole generation of non-English speaking minorities had to make do with an ad hoc system which provided makeshift translators , interpreters and semi-interpreters in G.P. 's surgeries , Hospitals , D.H.S.S offices , the Police Station and the Magistrate 's courts . |
| 12 | It was still implied that , without him , there was a danger that the political disorder of the past might return , but the emphasis would , henceforth , be much more on what people stood to lose in material terms if the system which provided those benefits were substantially changed . |
| 13 | The area he was entering was guarded by an advanced intruder detection system which included thermal sensors , vibration detectors and infra-red closed circuit television , all integrated into a computer system . |
| 14 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 15 | It was our colonial system which created export-based farming and the tax systems which continued the depopulation of the villages . |
| 16 | The build up of roll-on , roll-off traffic at that period , with a new system which allowed loaded vehicles to be cleared at inland depots also facilitated illegal traffic . |
| 17 | The Parkins had migrated from Dublin when Bernard was eight , young enough to take advantage of an educational system which allowed bright children to climb up and out of their allotted place in society . |
| 18 | Its implementation resulted in the enforcement of a social system which permitted little dissent and which could be , and was , used to aid and support a specific political system . |
| 19 | Having reached this conclusion Marx and Engels then realized that if kinship was the system which organized primitive societies , then , kinship in these societies , had to be completely different from what it was in capitalist society . |
| 20 | The Central Bank liberalized its foreign exchange regulations on Feb. 1 , 1990 , eliminating the system which required all transactions to go through the bank and to take place at a fixed daily rate . |
| 21 | Aboard a ship naval ranking was the status system which over-rode all others . |