Example sentences of "system [that] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BIZARRE tale of heroin addiction , drug peddling , police raids and the missing page from an old chemistry journal lie behind the chance discovery in California of a chemical that may be the key to unlocking the mysteries of Parkinson 's Disease — a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system that afflicts the elderly . |
| 2 | A curriculum that genuinely values the practical as highly as the theoretical or academic must be geared to a public assessment system that does the same , and from which only the severely mentally handicapped , and not all of them , will need to be totally excluded . |
| 3 | A geneticist might wish to claim that the direct influence of the genes is upon the nervous system that mediates the stone-choosing behaviour , not upon the stones themselves . |
| 4 | The Guardian newspaper , in partnership with the Royal Institute for the Blind and associates has launched a system that enables the entire editorial text of the newspaper to be transmitted nightly via Teletext on Channel 4 television 's frequencies to a personal computer , which can read the text in a synthesised voice to blind and partially sighted people : those that can afford an £8,000 Braille terminal can also read the text that way , and it can also be displayed in large print on the screen for those with poor sight ; the text is structured so that readers can scan the headlines and choose the items that interest them ; the paper will be marketed , serviced and supported by Electronic Text Networks Associates Ltd of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , a commercial venture one third owned by the Guardian and the charity ; the other shareholders , each with a third share , are Aptech Ltd , which specialises in computer aids for disabled people , and Intelligent Research Ltd , which made the hardware for the system ; the decoder board for the personal computer is £400 , plus about £500 for a speech synthesizer ; the annual subscription to the electronic paper is £160 and the partners hope that other papers will decide to go onto the system . |
| 5 | The most urgent task is replacing ledgers and pencils with a management-information system that allows the head office to monitor risk . |
| 6 | That is why we are so opposed to the system that charges the richest person in Westminster only £273 a year but the poorest person in Wigan £339 a year . |
| 7 | As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency . |
| 8 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |
| 9 | Any system that costs the British taxpayer more than £2.5 billion , only half of which reaches farmers , is an absurdity and must be abolished . |
| 10 | Do n't miss this opportunity to see the product of a European system that makes the best of emerging talent by staging work to a high standard . |
| 11 | It will sell a remote ’ controlled lighting system that incorporates the new chip . |
| 12 | Even if an installation finds it convenient to use one of the smaller operating systems for much of its work , it may he possible to switch to an operating system that provides the extra facility to handle variable-length records , just for those files that need it . |
| 13 | The electorate 's views are seen as stable , centrist and moderate , but , in the context of an electoral system that bolsters the two-party system and blocks the easy rise of third parties of moderation , the House of Commons is " unrepresentative " and the party activists unchecked . |
| 14 | The EF-111 uses a General Dynamics ejector system that blows the entire cockpit away from the airframe . |