Example sentences of "system was still " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I came to Hollywood in 1950 , the studio system was still in place but it was crumbling , ’ he told the author . |
| 2 | The system was still one of equal division between the children . |
| 3 | This system was still in use in western Europe as late as the sixteenth century ! |
| 4 | But the main reason that trolleybuses were often preferred to buses as replacements for trams was that the electrical distribution system was still in good condition . |
| 5 | In the late eighteenth century the British parliamentary system was still unreformed , and could in no sense be described as democratic . |
| 6 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |