Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] system " in BNC.

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1 The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait .
2 Another advantage of the gens system was that you could keep the fortune you had amassed in one incarnation and use it in the next .
3 Yet the purpose of the honours system is to confer a form of proxy , subsidiary , membership of this family .
4 Indeed the Commission recommended that a new part of the honours system should be developed to give a distinctive , but equal weight to citizenship and voluntary achievements .
5 THE Prime Minister yesterday matched his words about a classless society with action — sweeping away the class basis of the honours system .
6 He regarded the Prime Minister 's unfastidious use of the honours system as the most obviously shocking but by no means necessarily the most dangerous manifestation of the system .
7 In general it would be incongruous , having myself been highly honoured , to express any criticism of the honours system , but in my view its main vice has been the determination of unsuccessful candidates to receive an award .
8 The Prime Minister has announced a reform of the honours system saying they should be awarded on merit not seniority .
9 ‘ QUANGOS have become an extension of the honours system , through which the Government can reward loyal supporters .
10 The Whelan is question is Noel Whelan , a striker who 's a product of the youths system .
11 Batch processing in the case of the personnel system could in some areas lead to information being up to two months out of date .
12 Whether tax was covered by the review or not , there were still decisions to be taken on such fundamental issues as the future of the pensions system , support for low-income families , and the special payments system which was breaking down .
13 In a Green Paper , Paying for Local Government , it proposed the abolition of domestic rates ; the setting of non-domestic rates by central government and their distribution to authorities by way of a pooling system ; and simplification of the grants system .
14 Lord Fraser said : ‘ This is the first systematic research for a number of years on the operation of the hearings system .
15 It looks as though exactly the same will happen again in respect of the benefits system .
16 Because , until the Government introduced family credit , there was no comprehensive assistance for people in work on low incomes in terms of the benefits system .
17 There is now an overwhelming case for the Government to undertake an urgent investigation into simplifying the structure of the benefits system .
18 We have steadily improved the coverage and generosity of the benefits system .
19 ‘ Coming on top of the extension of VAT to fuel , the administration of the benefits system is clearly in a complete mess , and [ social security secretary ] Peter Lilley has to get his act together . ’
20 Suffice it to say that whatever the Court of Appeal 's finding there are likely to be significant procedural and resource implications as far as the administration of the complaints system is concerned and these will have to be explored during the coming year .
21 The accounts office has to deal with all aspects of the accounts system .
22 Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand .
23 In a White Paper issued shortly after it came to office , the new Conservative administration reviewed the development of the PES system to date and argued that there should be regular in-depth reviews of spending programmes , on both a departmental and an interdepartmental basis .
24 Critics of the PES system in its latest form vary according to political persuasion .
25 None of these changes fully gets to grips with the central weakness of the PES system as far as social policy is concerned — the failure to integrate tax expenditures into the system in an explicit way .
26 A reform of the PES system on the same lines is perfectly feasible .
27 However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) .
28 A modified version of the spoils system continues , since the senior civil service posts of under-secretary , director general and deputy director general within ministries remain political appointments .
29 The memo is the life blood of the communications system of the organisation .
30 It was only part of the communications system anyway , nothing advanced .
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