Example sentences of "system that [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early system that produced some success was that of Sayre ( 1973 ) . |
| 2 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 3 | The separation of children at eleven was a classification system that perpetuated social class division ; it was also an educational typology . |
| 4 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 5 | Serota was pleased that the public sector at least had the benefit of a system that ensured reasonable levels of pay ; no such system protected employees in the independent sector , while the pay and status of employees working for local authorities had increasingly been eroded , with the Director of Museums and Galleries often downgraded and answerable to a Director of Leisure Services . |
| 6 | It did this through ratecapping , a system that allowed central government to dictate rate-calls set by some or all local councils , and by joint boards governing areas such as fire , police and transport , established as a result of the abolition of the metropolitan counties . |
| 7 | In southern Italy the Normans held the country and imposed a feudal system that stifled mercantile expansion . |
| 8 | It was not a system that stifled individual skill . |