Example sentences of "system [conj] [vb -s] the " in BNC.

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1 If it is a customer service that gives advantage , then for the majority of consumers who have minimal communication with branch personnel , it is the personalised quality of the computerised communication systems that constitutes the service quality level .
2 The roots of Habermas 's concept of lifeworld clearly lie with the phenomenology of Schutz and Berger and Luckmann ( see Chapter 3 ) but his concept is closely related to a theory of social systems that includes the institutional structure of society .
3 Otherwise we will be left with a system that meets the Revenue 's commercial needs at the taxpayer 's expense .
4 The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future .
5 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 .
6 A system that represents the syllables of a language .
7 Operates a complex points system that determines the status of every professional .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The impact of the television screen is very compelling and it is the graphics facilities of the computer system that enables the program designer to utilize it .
12 Any electronic drawing system that allows the designer to sketch , visualise and change plans or ideas may be said to offer CAD .
13 The most urgent task is replacing ledgers and pencils with a management-information system that allows the head office to monitor risk .
14 Earlier , Conte had defended his decision to limit to two the number of political parties which would initially be allowed to function under the promised multiparty system , saying that the CMRN rejected " both any anarchic multiparty system that divides the people , and a single party that leads to individual or group dictatorship " .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The first taste of free fighting with an opponent , under a system that requires the individual to make his own decisions as to which techniques to use , can seem somewhat daunting .
18 Such a view is not correct because an expert system that automates the reasoning strategies/processes and knowledge of one/several maintenance expert(s) must contain the knowledge of operations expert(s) as well .
19 Present levels of breakdown , isolation , fear and violence are evils that can not be separated from the economic system that delivers the goods .
20 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 ) .
21 In Pakistan , salinisation and waterlogging are particularly acute in the Indus Valley where irrigation has been practised since 5 kyr BP ; currently some 15 x 10 6 ha are irrigated by a system that includes the Indus River and its tributaries , 3 storage reservoirs , 19 barrages , 43 canals and 90 000 watercourse systems ( Shanan 1987 ) .
22 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 .
23 The result is a system that has the potential to recognise every word in the language .
24 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 .
25 Assessment must be valid and reliable with an associated quality assurance system that ensures the credibility of the award .
26 The satellite system that supports the telescope costs at least £20 million : this includes the solar panels for power , control systems to swing the telescope from one object to another , tape recorders to store data , and communications links to the ground .
27 At higher speeds it is difficult to dissipate sufficient of the energy of motion of the Moon for it to be captured and at the same time yield an Earth-Moon system that resembles the one that actually exists .
28 He has triumphed by attacking a system that sucks the marrow from the body of the industry to leave only the flab and gristle of tired ideas .
29 ( In Section 24.3 we will look at an actual physical system that shows the implications of that statement rather effectively . )
30 It will sell a remote ’ controlled lighting system that incorporates the new chip .
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