Example sentences of "[noun sg] system that [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |
| 2 | The work described in this thesis was developed in the context of an integrated handwriting recognition system that uses a number of sources of higher level knowledge . |
| 3 | The University of Leeds has developed a crop spraying system that produces virtually no pesticide or herbicide drift . |
| 4 | Instead of sprayer operators having to pour out chemicals by hand , he figured , why not fit a syringe system that keeps man and chemical well apart ? |
| 5 | The cut is part of a regular review system that adjusts funding to reflect the amount of interest in the programmes . |
| 6 | Any electronic drawing system that allows the designer to sketch , visualise and change plans or ideas may be said to offer CAD . |
| 7 | Northern Telecom Ltd signed distribution agreements with Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Televerket of Sweden for its Companion wireless telephone system that supports cordless phones on its PABXs : the system will be marketed in the Netherlands as Vox Cordless Companion and in Sweden as part of the Cosmos 2000 family and will be out in both countries next quarter . |
| 8 | The network also served as an intelligence system that feeds back local requirements . |
| 9 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 10 | Mr Winchester , a Mac-fan of many years and now the boss of a Mac-using electronic-publishing company , has an ingenious explanation : unlike the clumsy MS-DOS operating system that powers IBM computers and all their clones , the Mac can cope with comparative ease with the pictographic scripts and unusual phonetic alphabets of Asia . |
| 11 | The problem here is that as a $4,300 box it 's fitted with only 207Mb external disk and 16Mb internal memory , barely enough to handle the Solaris 2.1 operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space and prefers 24Mb minimum . |
| 12 | It 's a large operating system that needs a hard drive to hold the extensive files that come with it , but has many redeeming features . |
| 13 | Even if an installation finds it convenient to use one of the smaller operating systems for much of its work , it may he possible to switch to an operating system that provides the extra facility to handle variable-length records , just for those files that need it . |
| 14 | This strategy is being made obsolete by Unix , an ‘ open ’ operating system that runs on hundreds of different computers from hundreds of different manufacturers , from micros and minis through mainframes to supercomputers . |
| 15 | The re-bundling of server software may help to change users ' perceptions , but the great white hope is MVS Open Edition , the new version of the operating system that comes with a Posix interface . |
| 16 | Such a view is not correct because an expert system that automates the reasoning strategies/processes and knowledge of one/several maintenance expert(s) must contain the knowledge of operations expert(s) as well . |
| 17 | AT&T says that it is already using the two components in its New Generation Testing system that troubleshoots toll-free 800 number services and can pinpoint problems on up to 42 lines simultaneously . |
| 18 | Also announced was LattisCell Connection Management System , connection and network management software for switched and permanent virtual circuits , and LattisCell Asynchronous Transfer Mode Management Application 1.0 , an Asynchronous Transfer Mode management system that integrates into SynOptics ' Optivity network management system . |
| 19 | Mountain View , California-based Ask Computer Systems Inc has come out with Manman/X , a Unix version of its manufacturing business management system that operates in multiple hardware environments . |
| 20 | The software is a user interface management system that supports screen layout , colour editors , font editors , image editors , presentation tools and dynamic dialog management that claims a 20:1 code reduction ratio when used . |
| 21 | 1971 : After stereo comes quadrophonic — a four-track sound system that requires special equipment and four speakers . |
| 22 | Thanks to a sound system that fails to function properly , Kevin 's words of diseased warning and wisdom are indecipherable . |
| 23 | A number of possible reasons have been identified for the rapid expansion of private sector residential care : the increase in the numbers of very old people , the reduction in long-stay hospital provision , cuts in local authority spending , and finally , the ‘ perverse incentives ’ of the social security system that encourages residential rather than community care . |
| 24 | Thus a social security system that includes a significant proportion of means-testing is bound to be age discriminatory in its effects . |
| 25 | rise in traffic demand , is not it about time that his Department stopped being a Department only for roads and instead sought to introduce a proper , integrated transport system that takes real account of environmental considerations ? |
| 26 | With the crumbling of housing estates , ill-lit and hostile city centres and a dirty , rundown transport system that has reduced the numbers of guards , conductors and station staff , the growth of crime has been fostered . |
| 27 | The most successful discounters ‘ have a business system that works like a Swiss watch , ’ says Philippe Kaas , a Paris-based managing partner of OC&C , a strategy consultancy . |
| 28 | HPFS is the SVR4-compatible file system that promises to more than double system throughput . |
| 29 | A shift system that improves junior doctors ' working conditions is unlikely to save money . |
| 30 | Using such an arrangement of hardware and software it is possible to construct a computer-based designing system that meets all the needs of the design and manufacturing process . |