Example sentences of "[art] [adj] system [verb] been " in BNC.

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1 As long as the political system has been able to maintain the capacity to meet the demands and expectations of citizens , an allegiant orientation has been demonstrated by citizens .
2 This makes it difficult to reach a decision , and causes a nagging worry as to whether the right system has been selected .
3 The old system had been removed , but the new ones were not yet working at full power .
4 Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity .
5 Abnormalities of the nervous system have been implicated in the development of hypertension in diabetes .
6 An important series of research projects that does allow some judgment to be made between selective and non-selective schools in the comprehensive system has been undertaken at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University .
7 The established system has been defended on a number of grounds .
8 In the first chapter I dealt briefly with some of the major ways in which the global system has been categorized .
9 A possible pathological role for the renin-angiotensin system has been proposed .
10 He describes how the basic system has been tested and extended throughout the Authority , location by location and application by application .
11 Many of the larger systems have been mapped meticulously and show an intricate pattern of passages , often crossing at different levels and branching in all directions in weird disarray .
12 The current system has been developed for English , but the methods would be applicable to other languages which use the same or similar alphabets .
13 As we shall see , the latter system has been modified in recent years , but the basic principle upon which the ‘ pool ’ rests remains unchanged , namely that the cost of public sector higher education must be shared among all the local authorities .
14 The resultant systems have been able to perform detailed analyses of small fragments of language .
15 To say the very least , there is a suspicion that the legal system has been devised to suit the lawyers rather than to protect the public .
16 Simultaneously , the avenues for challenging Home Office decisions via the legal system have been consistently reduced .
17 Reports indicated that dissatisfaction with the single-party system had been mounting among the ( largely Roman Catholic ) population .
18 For this reason , the footnote-reference system has been widely displaced by other accepted techniques , such as the system which we now describe , and which we would recommend .
19 A package of laws redefining local government structure , responsibilities and powers and the electoral system had been rushed through the National Assembly in recent weeks .
20 The electoral system has been a barrier to realignment .
21 The professional and administrative sectors of the now dominant social class ( itself a fusion of the high bourgeoisie and the landed aristocracy ) had become increasingly important in the new social order of liberal imperialist England ; indeed the educational system had been reformed , at its higher levels , primarily for their production .
22 In Germany the nature of the educational system has been in tune with both the needs of industry and prevailing social values [ Locke , 1984 ] .
23 He even referred Galileo to de Zuñiga 's commentary on Job in which the Copernican system had been countenanced .
24 Indeed , one of Wilkins 's arguments in favor of the Copernican system had been that the alternative — imputing a daily rotation to the heavens — would be to argue ‘ improvidence in nature . ’
25 Second , the tax-collecting system has been given new teeth .
26 Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this .
27 The two systems have been carefully designed to enable their joint use both for local issues , such as individual branch manning , and for broader events such as participation in production of projections and sensitivity analysis during the banks ' annual corporate planning and budget cycles .
28 Of the 23% who did not approve of the devolution , some commented on the speed with which the new system had been introduced and of the lack of opportunity for staff development ; others were concerned that localised development meant duplication of effort .
29 The necessary rule-making power to accommodate the new system has been included in the Employment Act 1989 .
30 The medical professionals say the new system has been very beneficial to patients .
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