Example sentences of "system [is] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if such a classificatory system is a major feature of the way the police control their fellow citizens , then it seems essential it should be identified , assessed , and described . |
| 2 | The Patriot missile system is a good example . |
| 3 | The organic system is a personal choice . |
| 4 | Fitting the system is a fairly simple matter and all components come on a frame which can be simply attached to most sprayers . |
| 5 | The system is a well thought-out one and seems to work well . |
| 6 | The system is a heavy user of both men and machines and so is probably better suited to contractors and larger farmers . |
| 7 | DISENCHANTMENT with the Iranian revolution may be growing in cities such as Teheran , but at the school where the Ayatollah Khomeini lectured revolutionaries , few doubt that the Islamic system is a success and that its scholars are the best qualified to rule the country . |
| 8 | Administration , Political and Administrative Establishment — within the change agent system and in the larger systems of which the change agent system is a sub-system , for example politicians and bureaucrats in local or national government within which the change agent system is located ; |
| 9 | The secret of the system is a central reaction whose products are the system 's constituents . |
| 10 | Each system is a complete package including hardware , software and consumables . |
| 11 | Relationships are dynamic … the status system is a kind of social front , a temporary balance of forces , behind which individuals develop the social skills needed for the … resolution of intergenerational competition ’ ( Crook 1975 ) . |
| 12 | The Oxford Language System is a loose-leaf approach to self-study . |
| 13 | The Opus immunoassay system is a product of the joint venture between Polaroid and Behringwerke . |
| 14 | Firstly , the windowing system is a set of tools for creating windows and their characteristics — an example of this is X Windows . |
| 15 | Built into the very heart of the new system is a tension between , on the one hand a central requirement ( which is also a local or individual entitlement ) , and on the other a fragmented delivery system supposedly made dynamic by competition for pupils , parental support , finance and staff . |
| 16 | The depth-first control structure of the later phases of the system is a consequence of this , and has some disadvantages , as we will see . |
| 17 | The companion galaxy in this system is a very modest dwarf , and the host galaxy itself is similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud , a companion to our own Milky Way Galaxy . |
| 18 | The company claims that its system is a ‘ radically new approach to 3D ’ and is covered by patents . |
| 19 | If , as trials suggest , the system is a success , the foot-weary pedestrian will breathe a sigh of relief . |
| 20 | The second system is a photometer to measure the brightness of a source simultaneously at 12 , 40 and 100 micrometres with three chips made of silicon-gallium , germanium-beryllium and germanium-gallium respectively . |
| 21 | Inherent in this type of social system is a marked sexual dimorphism , with males usually much bigger than females , a consequence of the fierce inter-male competition for dominance . |
| 22 | If the warren system is a really big one then the more pit traps you dig the better your chances of effecting a recovery . |
| 23 | If the warren system is a big one it may require two guns to do the killing . |
| 24 | The reasoning mechanism ( inference engine ) used by an expert system is a program that contains generalized strategies used to solve problems to acquire knowledge and to interface with other systems . |
| 25 | Reading bar codes into the system is a practical proposition , but the database side of things is not . |
| 26 | Roseberry runs a smaller outfit than Jeff Young 's , with a modest roster of artists , so the system is a little different to that of the bigger record companies . |
| 27 | Redken 's CAT Protein Network system is a treatment which if applied repeatedly can increase hair strength by as much as 65% . |
| 28 | But it could be ‘ Jane ’ — the PA system is a little less than perfect . |
| 29 | A LETS system is a group of people agreeing to acquire or sell goods and services using a notional currency instead of the equivalent in ‘ real ’ money . |
| 30 | ‘ As far as I am concerned , the honours system is a wonderful thing which should be retained . ’ |