Example sentences of "system which [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system which probably developed in the late eighteenth century seems to have been especially increasing from 1790 . |
| 2 | The most usual way for a musician to do business in Jamaica was through a producer , who would pay the musician a nominal sum for his work and then make his own deals with record companies : a system which traditionally guaranteed disproportionately generous returns for the producer , and next to nothing for the musician . |
| 3 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 4 | But he added that a system which simply gave complainants a chance to investigate the defence case before going to court ‘ would not be satisfactory or acceptable ’ . |
| 5 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 6 | With only six grades for such a large group of staff , it was not felt sensible , however , to use a system which apparently stated that a post scoring x points was clearly in one grade and yet a post scoring x 5 points was , equally clearly , in a different grade ( all possible scores were multiples of 5 and the range of possible scores was approximately 135 to 1500 ) . |
| 7 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 8 | In England , Wales and Scotland the new local government systems which finally came into operation in 1974 appeared to confirm a new status for local government , which was also reflected in significantly increased salaries for the chief officers of the new councils . |
| 9 | Unlike the old colonial banking systems which mainly borrowed and lent locally , cross-border banking enables a bank , e.g. USA or Japanese , to borrow funds in one market ( e.g. Europe ) and lend to borrowers in another ( e.g. Latin America ) . |