Example sentences of "system [is] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial element in the system is that it should be modular . |
| 2 | A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach . |
| 3 | The advantage of the group system is that it ensures that members of the respective parties put forward clear cut views at the meetings of the council . |
| 4 | The most significant thing about the system is that it allows the operator to lay out pages on the screen . |
| 5 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |
| 6 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
| 7 | The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths . |
| 8 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |
| 9 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 10 | ‘ The advantage of having your own premastering system is that it 's much cheaper and easier to correct mistakes at the early stage , ’ explains Mr Wakeley . |
| 11 | The traditional view of the visual system is that it involves a cascade of processing stages running from the retina to the ‘ association ’ cortex . |
| 12 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 13 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 14 | Another benefit of such a system is that it enables one to learn about the human resources of the organization in a different way : |
| 15 | The hallmark of a good management information system is that it should be politically neutral ; that is , it should address the economic consequences of government policy regardless of their ideological viewpoint . |
| 16 | The great disadvantage of a CAD system is that it currently has no data structure . |
| 17 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 18 | The whole essence of a TechDoc system is that it is an integrated product which allows a single individual to complete all the tasks necessary to create the final document . |
| 19 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 20 | The advantage of the system is that it is very positive . |
| 21 | the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly . |
| 22 | One of the benefits of the ANLT 's morphological system is that it does not need to explicitly store all of the words it knows . |
| 23 | The basic point about the national insurance system is that it is a contributory one whereby what is paid bears some relationship to what is received . |
| 24 | The trouble with the Labour system is that it would spend many more years trying to introduce it before it could get rid of the poll tax . |
| 25 | One of the attributes of such a system is that it makes available to all concerned the information they need to discharge their responsibilities . |
| 26 | As its name implies , the distinctive feature of this automated trading system is that it emulates physical pit trading on the screen ; other electronic screen systems are order matching systems only . |
| 27 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 28 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |