Example sentences of "system [prep] a given [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A language can , of course , express any kind of information its speakers need to express , but the grammatical system of a given language will determine the ease with which certain notions such as time reference or gender can be made explicit . |
| 2 | That is in a system with a given set of factors of production and a fixed technology . |
| 3 | As Kassalow argues , ‘ without a fair understanding of the social , economic and political setting of the industrial relations system in a given country one can make errors of analysis or judgment , or , even more likely , learn only half truths about the significance of particular industrial relations policies or practices in a foreign country ’ ( 1968 : 99 ; cf. Shalev 1980 : 40 ) . |
| 4 | For a system in a given state , the entropy is related to the number of distinguishable arrangements the components in that state can adopt , and can be calculated from the Boltzmann law , where W is the number of statistical microstates available to the system . |
| 5 | ‘ Fade ’ is a pharmacological phenomenon in which the response of a steady state system to a given stimulus decreases with time ; thus it might be argued that the cigarette smoking had no effect and that the observed reduction in secretion simply coincided with system fade . |
| 6 | The technology has taken on a more dominant role in controlling the way work is carried out and also the number of staff involved in the system at a given time . |
| 7 | Synchronic study , on the other hand , considers how a language functions as a system at a given moment in time , analyzing the simultaneous relationships between its constituent parts ; it examines how a language works , not how it develops . |