Example sentences of "system which [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is the system which appoints them both ludicrous and antiquated , but it is difficult to quantify quite what the Lords achieves . |
| 2 | They are subject to a work permit system which ties them to one job and makes them dependent on their employers ' goodwill to continue their stay in Britain . |
| 3 | Indeed if there is any validity in the argument that the narrow background and insularity of judges renders them unfitted to make decisions with significant broad social consequences , there is some merit in a system which limits their ability to change the law and reserves such questions for full consideration by a democratically elected legislature . |
| 4 | The real beauty of such places is not their actual visual components , but the system which underlies them : the harmony between man and nature which they represent . |
| 5 | Liberal Democrats recognise that if we are to improve Britain 's disappointing economic performance we have to change the governmental system which produces it . |
| 6 | In addition you could benefit from a messaging system which turns your mobile phone into an answerphone when not in use . |
| 7 | But one senior officer told us they felt let down by a legal system which denies them the right to detain an offender who 's cost 400 police hours in just 6 months . |
| 8 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 9 | The motor is basically a closed-loop hydraulic control system which derives its input from a small conventional electrical stepping motor . |
| 10 | The first is the energy , most of it from fossil fuels , required by modern agriculture and the system which delivers its produce to the customers ; the other , the peaking of the ‘ miracle grain ’ revolution . |
| 11 | The Act , while improving the security of the farm worker did not , therefore , remove the key element in the tied cottage system which perpetuates his dependency — the fact that his employer is also his landlord . |
| 12 | On the other hand , after a period of some four to five years ' ( and after only two to three years of first speaking words ) exposure to the language of those around them , children seem to have mastered the underlying rule system which enables them to produce an infinite variety of relatively well-formed , complex sentences . |
| 13 | This simply means that meaning shared by words or signs allows them to be located close together in the system which allows them to be identified internally . |
| 14 | The Microlog has a simple system which allows it to be attached quickly to the pushpit . |
| 15 | The main 10-band EQ system ( plus two further sliders for input gain and volume ) is augmented by a smaller , manually-adjusted 7-band ‘ acoustic correction ’ system which allows you to compensate for the acoustics of each gig , without having to go back into your preset program — positive thinking on the part of Decimax . |
| 16 | the sack uses the company 's Tergoflex-Light system which allows you to fine-tune the hip belt and shoulder harness position . |
| 17 | You need an active revision system which allows you to adjust your knowledge to different questions . |
| 18 | If they adopted that system which costs nothing you would avoid patients ' frustration and give the health service a better name . |
| 19 | Essentially , Weber 's essay sets out to show how the mediaeval cities in Western Europe sustained a fundamental challenge to the feudal system which surrounds them , and thus paved the way for the subsequent development of a rational-legal social order . |
| 20 | ‘ Italy needs to vote in a system which gives it stronger political groups , ’ he added . |
| 21 | Are women being exploited by a system which sees them as easy targets ? |
| 22 | Because it considers that capitalist economies are fundamentally in dis-equilibrium and each regulation system which controls them breaks down eventually , its view of history does not include the regular and predictable cyclical pattern of long-wave theory . |
| 23 | The child of seven who can read fluently will not be held back so that an identical level of attainment can be achieved by all : the slow learner will not become the victim of a system which challenges him to achieve a goal which is unattainable . |
| 24 | Now , with the expansion of availability of SCOTVEC awards to increasing numbers of candidates , to a wider range of centres and to a greater coverage of occupational areas , SCOTVEC 's Board decided that the time was right to review the quality system which supports our awards to ensure that the system could continue to meet its objectives in the years head . |