Example sentences of "that the [adj] system " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost everyone in England and Wales is aware that the penal system is in ‘ crisis ’ , even people who have little idea of what ‘ the penal system ’ is , except that it has to do with prisons and punishment . |
| 2 | No one disputes that the penal system has serious problems — but is it really in a state of crisis ? |
| 3 | We do not believe that this kind of analysis can be politically or morally neutral — and nor should it , for our understanding of the situation is that the penal system is morally indefensible and is in dire need of a programme of radical reform which will inevitably be highly political . |
| 4 | If deterrence is the justification for punishment , it seems almost certain that the penal system in the United Kingdom is engaging in massive and unjustifiable ‘ overkill ’ . |
| 5 | As we saw in the section on deterrence , all the evidence is that the penal system is engaging in a massive overkill operation — which amounts to a massive infringement of the human rights of those it punishes excessively . |
| 6 | This provokes the consideration that the penal system may perform a dual function in the reproduction of the social formation . |
| 7 | Some Japanese businessmen will concede , at least in private , that the post-1945 system of lifetime employment in large companies can not survive . |
| 8 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
| 9 | A further very important feature of this type of experiment was the demonstration that the nervous system will only develop if future muscle and adjacent cells on the outside move in underneath the outer layer . |
| 10 | Basically it means that the nervous system which passes through the wrist in the carpal tunnel has been stressed and the best cure is rest , or in the case of trigger finger , an injection or even an operation . |
| 11 | Freud assumed that the nervous system 's main task is to abolish stimuli and as far as possible ‘ maintain itself in an altogether unstimulated condition ’ . |
| 12 | For instance , one could not say that the nervous system had simply slowed down , as on occasion the subjects could produce responses as quickly as they could when rested . |
| 13 | Of morphological interest is their evidence that the nervous system is not very much more conservative in its evolution than are the muscular and exoskeletal systems : muscles which seem to form an integral part of one segment may in part be innervated from the ganglia of other segments . |
| 14 | But in much of this work there is a tendency to imply that the Japanese system is flexible and responsive enough to correct the negative features , although the response may take longer in some cases than others . |
| 15 | From discussions within a racially mixed group of sixty pupils , both from the fourth and fifth year , there seems to have been a consensus of opinion that the streaming system does not truly reflect ability . |
| 16 | There was also a consensus that the streaming system works more against black pupils , indicated in the following remarks from a white pupil : |
| 17 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 18 | The company claims that the hardware-software system provides an infrastructure for messaging applications across all types of network . |
| 19 | From the above Bukharin deduced that the monetary system would collapse , money would be devalued and ‘ the distribution of paper money is divorced from the distribution of products . ’ |
| 20 | However severe the gap between the Soviet Union and the West in technological know-how , this , one must reiterate , is secondary to the fact that the Soviet system makes poor use of the know-how at its own disposal . |
| 21 | Like Humpty Dumpty it is unlikely that the communist system can be put together again . |
| 22 | So many people wanted to emigrate in answer to this that the local authorities feared that the traditional system of agriculture in Madeira as well as the new industries , would be endangered by a shortage of artisans and workers . |
| 23 | It was seen that the traditional system , in which the patients were at the bottom of a communication and status hierarchy and were denied autonomy or participation in the running of the institution , exacerbated the problems many patients had , or produced the characteristic ‘ institutionalization ’ which was to be deplored . |
| 24 | However , prospects of a change in the Government 's attitude over Mar Lodge seem unlikely after Scottish Office Minister Lord James Douglas-Hamilton said during the adjournment debate that the existing system would be adequate to safeguard the estate . |
| 25 | The position is put that the existing system ( here the method of dividing people into one or the other sex ) produces unfortunate consequences and should be abandoned . |
| 26 | This is not to suggest that the existing system does not have its problems . |
| 27 | The Council reiterates its previously expressed view that the existing system of local government in Scotland should be retained , that a convincing case for change remains to be made and that the cost , confusion and disruption involved in the proposed reorganisation is not justified . |
| 28 | The development of income raising schemes and projects will significantly increase the pressure of work on the Finance Section , even when linked directly to the Bank 's own Royline and while it is envisaged that the existing system should be able to meet requirements for the next four or five when replacement will be under consideration , additional staff will probably be required . |
| 29 | The development of income raising schemes and projects will significantly increase the pressure of work on the Finance Section , even when linked directly to the Bank 's own Royline and while it is envisaged that the existing system should be able to meet requirements for the next four or five years when replacement will be under consideration , additional staff will probably be required . |
| 30 | He said that the existing system of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) had proved ineffectual , with over 500 SSSIs destroyed in the past two years , and that the legal protection to be given to SACs was still unclear . |