Example sentences of "through a system of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world is now seen through a system of concepts in which feedback loops and fast fouriers have taken over from friendship and fun . |
| 2 | Why do n't private individuals establish the missing market through a system of bribes or compensation ? |
| 3 | Members of all-male groups maintain a regular monitoring of harems through a system of challenges I called the ‘ yelping chase ’ . |
| 4 | The ‘ family ’ was not merely the basic social unit of bourgeois society but its basic unit of property and business enterprise , linked with other such units through a system of exchanges of women-plus-property ( the ‘ marriage portion ’ ) in which the women were by strict convention deriving from pre-bourgeois tradition virgines intactae . |
| 5 | Clarkson sold some of his writings , including his history of abolition , through a system of subscriptions raised by acquaintances in religious networks , particularly Quakers . |
| 6 | It was funded by the existing television companies through a system of subscriptions . |
| 7 | Most organisations of any size work through a system of committees . |
| 8 | The government is focusing on a US$26,000 million scheme to bring water from well-supplied northern rivers and reservoirs to the drought-prone south through a system of canals . |
| 9 | The Sectional Councils may reach agreements on matters affecting the region , and also , through a system of subcommittees , review a large volume of individual claims that have not been resolved at LDC level . |
| 10 | In his well-known work on asylums ( Goffman , 1961 ) he shows how progress through the wards of a mental hospital can be looked upon as a progress through a system of hazards in the course of which honour and reputation is risked , gained and lost . |