Example sentences of "system [that] can [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 At least seven countries believe that the margin scheme is the only system that can be applied within one member state .
2 Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of a system that can be said to be ‘ living ’ is its ability to self-replicate .
3 The attempt to impose the rational management of a whole society by means of complex organization produces a political system that can be characterized as ‘ bureaucracy writ large ’ .
4 The following simplified description indicates the areas of the visual system that can be affected by disease or trauma .
5 The controlling terminal , a specially customised personal computer , has a Windows-style graphical colour interface and word processing system that can be used to design cheque and credit slip pages — particularly useful for UK customers dealing with different types of crossed and uncrossed cheques .
6 One would like to have a ‘ time 's arrow ’ covering this more general case too — that is , a formula for the entropy of a non-gaseous non-equilibrium system that can be shown to have the property of non-decrease in time if the system is thermally isolated .
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