Example sentences of "system for [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 George pointed wordlessly to an immense tank of water and with amusement showed me the system for telling the quantity of the contents .
2 Principles underlying the Course were reaffirmed , as were the framework of the regulations and the system for delivering the Course ( semesters in place of terms , for example , were rejected ) .
3 The perfect base for a leisure touring weekend , with direct access to the M42 and the Midlands motorway system for exploring the beautiful and historic Heart of England .
4 As far as magistrates ' courts are concerned , both their jurisdiction and their sentencing powers are limited by law , but a considerable degree of optionality is built into the system for determining the distribution of business between the two sets of criminal courts .
5 It is the greatest weakness of this wider view of accounting that there is no system for producing the data , which is verifiable in the way that double-entry bookkeeping is .
6 Among other electrical equipment on this Royal train was a private telephone system in the Royal saloons , a 25-line automatic telephone exchange for the entire train , and a buzzer-call system for summoning the staff .
7 The task may be simplified for trainees if they are given a hard copy of the 15 documents so that an appropriate system for naming the files can be selected ; file extensions , eg. LET , MEM , REP , may be used to assist identification .
8 Just as the barbarians themselves seem to have changed their policies about settlement , so too the Romans are unlikely to have had a monolithic system for settling the barbarians within the Roman Empire .
9 The employment of a sandwich student has enabled the development of a database of information about Nottingham 's caves and a system for monitoring the progress of 1:10 000 and 1:50 000 geological mapping .
10 Does senior management have a system for monitoring the outcome of ward-based rostering ?
11 The report advocates the following amendments : i ) a national policy for fish farming ; ii ) the extension of planning control to marine fish farms ; iii ) the adoption of a " duty of care for the environment " by fish farmers ; iv ) the introduction of a system for monitoring the effects of fish farming ; v ) the introduction of mandatory environmental assessments for all fish farming applications ; and vi ) the application of statutory status to Marine Conservation Areas to protect sensitive zones from the worst effects of fish farming .
12 The Nimbus CD company has developed a system for pushing the bumps and grooves closer together .
13 Since then , the Conservatives ' system for electing a leader has effectively removed this power from the monarch , and providing each election produces an outright winning party , her actions are pretty well preordained .
14 It was suggested , perhaps uncontroversially , in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that a system for enforcing the statutory duties which a trade union owes to its members should serve three purposes -enable interested parties to initiate complaint procedures easily and at reasonable costs ; -ensure that such complaints are handled speedily and that remedies available where complaints are upheld are effective ; and -give protection against unfair treatment of complainants by trade unions .
15 A good example of this is ICL 's LOCATOR fault diagnosis system , which wraps Guide together with ( a ) a system that logs fault reports from customers , and ( b ) a system for controlling the dispatch of engineers to fix faults .
16 But there is obvious weakness in a system for controlling the government which can only be activated by a member of that government .
17 But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone .
18 The invention related to an improved data processing system for implementing an automatic trading market for securities .
19 The government asked the UK hotel industry to come up with a workable system for implementing the European Commission 's directives on package travel .
20 A satisfactory system for staining the majority of bacteria uses Gram 's method ( named after its inventor ) .
21 Nearly all boards today have a mast track system for moving the mastfoot , but it is of no benefit to you as a beginner .
22 A system for allocating a small number of staff from a central point on a daily basis should be devised .
23 In particular , we would want to use such a system for connecting the specialist gardens and the nursery to the plant record system .
24 There are tax disadvantages in incorporation ( although A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-employed may reduce them in due course ) .
25 The paper follows the consultations that began in August 1991 with the publication of the Revenue 's consultation paper , A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-Employed ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October 1991 , p 48 ) .
26 The Inland Revenue consultative document ‘ A Simpler System for Taxing the Self Employed ’ contains proposals which , if implemented , would in any event result in an acceleration of the tax liability for partnership .
27 ‘ It would be difficult to invent a more complicated system for taxing the self-employed even if one set out with that very objective , ’ Mr Lamont said .
28 While the French and West Germans believe a supra-national system for regulating the EC economies should be subject to democratic scrutiny by the European Parliament , Chancellor Kohl wants this agreed and in legal form before other changes are made to the Treaty of Rome to create the proposed EC central bank or to give the EC Council of Ministers powers to override national governments .
29 It has already released its Desktop File System for halving the disk space needed ( UX No 403 ) .
30 If , for lack of a formula , British ministries ( and no doubt ministries elsewhere ) are unable to price the amenity value of landscapes threatened by development , how on earth would any government — or , more probably a conference of governments — be able to arrive at a system for pricing the air ?
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