Example sentences of "a [noun] system that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body has a defence system that protects it against outside invaders . |
| 2 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 6 | A shift system that improves junior doctors ' working conditions is unlikely to save money . |
| 7 | Thanks to a sound system that fails to function properly , Kevin 's words of diseased warning and wisdom are indecipherable . |
| 8 | The 1/CTR-900 board provides the basis for a development system that includes SCSI II and Ethernet . |
| 9 | The 1/CTR-900 board provides the basis for a development system that includes SCSI II and Ethernet . |
| 10 | With the aid of another architect friend , a metallurgist and a professor of mechanical engineering from Bristol University , and assistance from the research and development department of Aerospatiale , they designed a steel and glass conservatory in the style of the period , but with many modern and labour-saving features , such as a reversible entrance , hermetically-sealed casements , low-voltage common-earth infra-red lighting and a sprinkler system that runs entirely on shredded copies of Harpers & Queen . |
| 11 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 12 | Mr de Soto 's think-tank , the Institute of Liberty and Democracy , has highlighted how massive urban emigration has undermined a government system that revolves around private and state monopolies . |
| 13 | Sections were examined and scored ‘ blind ’ by two experienced observers , using a scoring system that ranged from negative , through intermediate , to strongly positive ( +++ ) . |
| 14 | INCREDIBLY for a railway system that has served the nation for more than 150 years there is still a considerable amount of history either still serving or extant . |
| 15 | Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , we shall see in the next section that EModE evidence strongly suggests a vowel system that exhibits patterns of a similar type to those we have reviewed . |
| 17 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 18 | ( Barry Legge ) No , I think it 'll be quite the reverse , at the moment we have a benefits system that stretches right across the spectrum , and there are many people receiving benefits at the moment that do n't really need them . |
| 19 | As it is , they create a culture that compensates for life at work ; a myth system that draws its sustenance from being separate from the culture of management . |
| 20 | The separation of children at eleven was a classification system that perpetuated social class division ; it was also an educational typology . |
| 21 | In general it allied itself with the conservative sector , knowing it could then rely on the wealth and status of this group and , in return , offering a value system that supported their regimes . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The network also served as an intelligence system that feeds back local requirements . |
| 26 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 27 | The educational system had failed him — an education system that had relied largely upon on-the-job training and part-time or distance study was inadequate and had ineptly squandered the intellect of its candidates . |
| 28 | At higher speeds it is difficult to dissipate sufficient of the energy of motion of the Moon for it to be captured and at the same time yield an Earth-Moon system that resembles the one that actually exists . |