Example sentences of "[noun] system be the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The first Scottish subscriber to the VISCOUNT system is the City of Aberdeen Library Services .
2 Another feature of the tax system is the capital allowances that can offset any liability .
3 The social security system was the legacy of Lord Beveridge and the post-war Attlee Government .
4 Another major problem for the adjustable peg system was the liquidity arrangements discussed in Section 8.2.2 .
5 since the prime contributor to the ‘ shape ’ of a safety system was the documentation and narrative , the first step in signalling this culture change was to revise and enhance its content .
6 One characteristic of the Bretton Woods system was the arrangement for fixed but adjustable exchange rates .
7 One method of arriving at cost in the absence of a satisfactory costing system is the use of selling price less an estimated profit margin .
8 Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition .
9 The basis of the McClellan system is the subdivision of the bookstock — for selection and revision purposes — into categories of manageable size , within which both logistic and bibliographical decisions can be made more easily .
10 The NOP poll , taken late last month on a sample of 1,000 , including only 27 per cent of parents , showed 80 per cent of people already believe an effective education system is the key to economic success .
11 The only change to the personal taxation system was the reduction of the basic rate of tax on the first £2,000 of taxable income to 20 per cent from 25 per cent at a cost of £1,770 million .
12 The main advantage of this Software-based control system is the simplicity of the microprocessor/motor interfacing , which can be implemented directly by using the PIA outputs as phase control signals .
13 In Great Britain the government 's control system is the prescription pricing regulation scheme , a voluntary agreement between the industry and the government that agrees profitability on NHS business .
14 of basic importance for understanding the functioning of the industrial relations system is the distribution of power resources between sellers and buyers of manpower and changes in this distribution .
15 An important criteria for a hotelier to consider when the decision is made to obtain a card access system is the availability of local after sales support .
16 Perhaps the most significant decision to be made when developing an NLP system is the selection of the underlying theoretical framework .
17 Alifabs Ambassador extruded aluminium fascia gutter and rainwater system is the design ideal for both new and existing buildings .
18 The core of Paris 's hospital system is the Assistance Publique , with 26 short stay hospitals containing some 20 000 beds , more than 20 other facilities ( medium and long stay ) , and a home care programme .
19 As long ago as 1973 , Lancaster pointed out that : ‘ a critical factor affecting the success or failure of an online information retrieval system is the effectiveness of the procedures employed to teach people how to use the facilities ’ .
20 The world system is the unit of analysis for understanding all changes , even local changes .
21 The major benefit to clients of the use of a computer system is the cost saving involved .
22 I have said that the most unpopular aspect of the old rating system was the fact that the single person household paid the same as the multi-occupied household next door .
23 A clear symbol of the growth of a banking system was the establishment in 1773 of the London Clearing House to cope with the huge increase in inter-bank payments .
24 THE essence of any energy system is the conversion of energy from one form to another .
25 As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker .
26 It was immediately much regretted that the death penalty could not be applied to burglars and footpads , and the prison system was the object of particularly fierce criticism .
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