Example sentences of "the [adj] system [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic system produces a large range of goods and ever increasing productivity is regarded as an important goal . |
| 2 | The Memphite system represents a high achievement of Egyptian thought and probably had a limited popular appeal , being appreciated mainly by the educated classes . |
| 3 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 4 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 5 | ‘ History has proved and will continue to prove , that the socialist system has a strong historical vitality and is full of life , ’ said Mr Jiang in his national day address . |
| 6 | This neglect of stock-flow equilibrium relationships is equally conspicuous in the treatment of the process of capital formation : in common with all short-run macroeconomic models , the IS-LM system posits a constant stock of physical capital while at the same time permitting the rate of net investment to vary . |
| 7 | The central dogma in effect claims that the genetic system resembles a record-player , not a tape recorder . |
| 8 | The hydro-electric system has a special problem in the summer . |
| 9 | The fibrinolytic system includes a proenzyme , plasminogen , which is converted by plasminogen activators to the active enzyme plasmin , which in turn digests fibrin to soluble degradation products . |
| 10 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 11 | Erm so the federal system has a constitutional basis but it also has a financial basis er and the two are er closely linked . |
| 12 | The other system requires a device to measure the load in the cable or to control the maximum pull that the vehicle will provide . |
| 13 | ‘ But , in pregnancy , the immune system produces a blocking factor to stop the baby being rejected . |
| 14 | And the new system uses a domestic CD player , coupled to a decoder . |
| 15 | The new system has a catchy name , ‘ holophonics ’ , and without doubt Zuccarelli has made some impressive recordings . |
| 16 | burglar alarm cost a , the whole system costs a lot of money to set up , so if you 've got in here it 's not going to put that expense to set that up . |
| 17 | The modular system provides a basis of transferable skills which assists those who , for whatever reason , wish to change career direction ; those preparing for return to employment and those wishing to add to or update their skills . |
| 18 | The proposed system identifies a number of commonly recognized aims and then asks whether children are being provided with the type of experiences which a ‘ reasonable parent ’ would consider necessary to their achievement . |