Example sentences of "system [that] [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Forming the chord of this arc lay the so-called Oosttaverne Line , some 4km/2½mls in length the German trench system that had been selected as the final objective of Plumer 's attack .
2 A system that had been designed to exclude the poor 's income from the payment of tax , was reshaped in such a way that , although the poor continued to enjoy exemption on their low income , the same privilege was extended to similar bands of income for all other taxpayers .
3 Thus , although Pollen 's instruments were capable of greatly improving the gunnery of the Royal Navy , they were for the most part rejected because of political controversy , technical confusion , faulty tactical analysis , and financial considerations , and a much inferior and derivative system that had been put forward by Dreyer was adopted instead .
4 Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone .
5 This document presents the main features of the system that has been built , and provides a guide to the safe running and control of that system .
6 However , there will still be the ongoing task of maintaining the system that has been created .
7 The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east .
8 Those that remain have made a personal investment in time and energy ; they have a stake in maintaining the system that has been developed and replacements will need to make their mark and have freedom to develop new ideas , from this a sense of identity , ownership and commitment will develop .
9 It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary .
10 The other main system that has been advocated is the additional member system , similar to that employed in West Germany .
11 In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years .
12 To suppose that Europe can retreat to the pre-rigid ERM of the 1980s — to a system that has been tried and tested — is a dangerous illusion .
13 The draft Approved Document also contains a provision requiring that the first occupants of a dwelling must receive instructions on how to look after the smoke detector system that has been installed .
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