Example sentences of "[adj] system be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying these themes was the belief that the problems of the British system were being thrown into stark relief by the endless economic difficulties of the 1970s . |
| 2 | Its nervous system is being controlled , as irresistibly as if it were a helpless drug addict , or as if the cuckoo were a scientist plugging electrodes into its brain . |
| 3 | Thus , if the French verb tense system were being drilled , the stimulus could be a time word such as " yesterday " or " tomorrow " , and it would require a correct choice of verb tense . |
| 4 | By the time of his death in 346 , there were several thousand monks scattered about the Egyptian desert , and the principles underlying the monastic system were being transmitted elsewhere . |
| 5 | Many of the alleged ‘ hidden costs ’ of distributed systems are are estimates of the informal training and problem-solving given to end users — yet in most companies , end users learn the in-house-preferred word processor or database program as they go along , asking one of their colleagues when they get stuck . |
| 6 | For the future , Acorn says that in the professional arena , powerful systems are being developed its computers , and it will co-ordinate and exploit this opportunity in key areas such as the professional publishing market . |
| 7 | However , by the 1970s the early pioneering days of computer data processing were over and more sophisticated integrated systems were being developed . |
| 8 | The hard economics of open systems are being addressed in a big way by Tandem Computers Inc , both in products and manufacturing . |
| 9 | How ironical that , as the Soviet Union moves away from bureaucratic control of its national life , the British educational system is being systematically nationalised by Mr Kenneth Baker . |
| 10 | This is shown , for example , by the following resolution passed at a special general meeting in 1896 : That recognizing as we do the natural aptitude for teaching deaf children which characterizes the well educated deaf we urge , in the name of justice or fair play , that every facility should be provided for their employment as teachers in our deaf and dumb institutions and day schools , more especially in those in which the combined system is being followed . |
| 11 | In Argentina , a near-moribund system is being revived by franchising to the private sector . |
| 12 | The way in which care programming had been introduced from the ‘ top down ’ was also seen as a disadvantage , ‘ We were given a lot of freedom to develop services in the eighties , now we feel new systems are being imposed ’ . |
| 13 | Although SmartStream is tied exclusively to the Sybase database at present , interoperability with other systems is being considered and other database engines can be accessed via Information Builders Inc 's EDA/SQL gateway . |
| 14 | Other systems are being added to the list — precise details are not available — and will be available in the first quarter of next year . |
| 15 | Discussions should also be held when relevant systems are being considered during the early stages , and when some specialist input ( ie from the organisation ) would be advantageous to the modelling exercises . |
| 16 | I shall now deal with how that proposed system is being challenged . |
| 17 | It must also be taken into consideration that the generative system is being used for an application alien to its originally design . |
| 18 | They have n't revealed their presence because our solar system is being treated rather like a nature reserve — that they do n't want to interpose themselves and spoil a very classic example of study of a lesser civilization growing up . |