Example sentences of "system which [verb] [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 | A system which offers extra help for the least academic , maximum encouragement for the average and the stretching of the brightest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Error will be present in any system which involves human intervention . |
| 6 | These relations , which are part of economic practice , can only exist in the context of a legal system which establishes individual agents as buyers and sellers . |
| 7 | a crazy shipping system which sends Ghanaian bauxite to Scotland , Guinean alumina to the US , Jamaican alumina to Ghana and Ghanaian aluminium all round the world . |
| 8 | This is starting to become a trend in Britain as well , although the planning system which encourages standard development is to some extent acting as a block . |
| 9 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Politicians cling to the rhetoric of socialism while supporting a system which delivers great riches to few businessmen , and profitable cuts to the civil servants and politicians who hand out licences . |
| 12 | But a system which institutionalises bad behaviour has something deeply wrong with it . |
| 13 | Also , at the end of the day there may not be a great deal of difference between a system which requires all charges subject to exceptions to be registered as opposed to the present one which requires specified charges to be registered subject to the power of the Secretary of State to add to or delete from their number . |
| 14 | At the other end of the scale is the much vaunted desktop publishing system which requires high resolution graphics ; either Extended Graphics or Hercules for a PC system , special software such as Aldus PageMaker or Harvard Publisher , and an intelligent page printer . |
| 15 | Palm and AC Canoe Products are acting as importers for the Kober range of paddles with their Shock Absorbing System , a foam system which lets dropped paddles bounce higher without breaking . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For a pattern recognition system which outputs alternative candidates for each letter position in a word , this fact can be exploited to rule out letter combinations which are not allowable in English . |
| 18 | The verb in a sentence such as The sun shines brightly is not deictic in the sense that the verb to come is , but is nevertheless deictic because it is part of a system which relates specific entities to reference points . |
| 19 | Meanwhile AT&T Long Lines — the part of the Bell System which handles long-distance telephone lines — plans a 1500 km network of single-mode optical cable . |
| 20 | Left : The new 3000 series of dishwashers from Bauknecht features a Clean Controller System which monitors each load and chooses the type of washing programme needed to give perfect results and economical use of water and detergent . |
| 21 | Friedmann is accused of focusing attention excessively on the structural inadequacies of the Soviet system which make such show trials necessary , rather than highlighting what Nizan considers to be the treacherous acts of the Trotskyites and Bukharinites conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state itself . |
| 22 | In choosing the Chart system which allows various models and strategies to be implemented and evaluated , we ensure that no design decision at any level in the system is irrevocable . |
| 23 | As well as providing a conventional means of mixing powders , it has a spear system which allows soluble bags to be disposed of without the operator having to handle them . |
| 24 | Left unremarked in the discussion so far is the irony of the place of criminal punishment in a system which emphasizes conciliatory control based upon compliance . |
| 25 | Little can be done without permission — the same security system which prevents light-fingered customers from making off with the goods , also trains an unblinking eye on the shop-worker . |
| 26 | Only immediate action was appropriate in abolishing a system which infringed divine law . |
| 27 | The rucksack incorporates Lowe 's Paralux adjustable back system which gives four levels of adjustment to fit your back size . |
| 28 | Since recall goes up as precision goes down , it is clearly not possible to achieve a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Alcatel Network Systems UK Ltd says it is launching a mobile communications system for UK freight services to link vehicles via satellite to their home base using its Euteltracs mobile system which provides two-way text communications between a mobile unit and its base , and position tracking and group messaging ; the service is similar to electronic mail and airtime costs are similar to cellular phone costs ; a mobile kit comprising antenna , the communications unit and keyboard should sell for £4,000 ; the system uses Qualcomm Inc 's technology . |