Example sentences of "system which [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regarding the strikes , disputes and restrictive practices which had plagued the Dublin plant , these were all unfortunate legacies of the British system which had been foisted upon the Irish since before the First World War . |
| 2 | The purpose was to make applicable to building societies the composite rate system which had been in force as respects bank interest since the Finance Act 1984 . |
| 3 | He spent some hours in the United Kingdom on May 18 , visiting a plant of Royal Ordnance , a British Aerospace subsidiary , to review the development of a multiple rocket artillery system which had been the subject of a contract signed in September 1990 by Royal Ordnance and the Chilean firm Famae . |
| 4 | The Commission voted on Nov. 26 , 1990 , to suspend the four-year-old subsidy system which had been available to EC shipbuilders to encourage them to compete against cheaper products from South Korea or Japan . |
| 5 | A popular referendum in September endorsed constitutional amendments restoring full powers to the Jatiya Sangsad ( the unicameral legislature with 330 seats — 300 directly elected and 30 reserved for indirectly elected women ) under a parliamentary system which had been suspended in 1975 . |
| 6 | Pro-democracy campaigners claimed that the poor turnout was also the result of the alienation of voters who rejected the political system which had been imposed on them . |