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

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1 The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organisation ( HMO ) , with the difference that the health authority is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership .
2 ] The Type I system has been likened to a Health Maintenance Organization ( HMO ) , with the difference that the ‘ organization ’ is compulsorily responsible for all residents of a particular location , and thus has no choice over membership .
3 While the American federal system has been likened to a marble cake , the British political system can be likened to a patchwork quilt .
4 A presidential system has been adopted .
5 In climatology the system has been adopted as providing a suitable framework and appears as the introductory foundation for Causes of Climate ( Lockwood , 1979a ) , where it is argued that the application of systems theory and mathematics has completely changed the subject of climatology .
6 A clearing processing system has been adopted by each exchange for which LCH clears , except the metal exchange .
7 ‘ As I have said , the suspension of payments will be only temporary , and when the social security system has been overhauled , special consideration will be given to deserving groups .
8 An important series of research projects that does allow some judgment to be made between selective and non-selective schools in the comprehensive system has been undertaken at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University .
9 Once a system has been pushed too far out of equilibrium , it takes just a little further input for a period of turmoil to ensue , followed by a new equilibrium .
10 Hartlepool 's home alarm system has been re-named by the council .
11 Once all work on the system has been completed , then the ground must be tidied up and left in such a state that it is easy to assess at a later date what rabbits have been left behind .
12 At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information .
13 Neil Walker says he is very pleased with how the system has been accepted , and so far , the IV workstations have been used by over 12,000 staff , amounting to 17,000 user hours .
14 I am very happy , in fact , that the whole the whole process the whole business of erm switching the system has been accepted and in fact even welcomed I think by the unions .
15 In the last 200 years the irrigation system has been extended to increase the number of crops grown annually and especially to increase the cultivation of cotton which is a major export crop .
16 The system has been extended by the introduction of Certificates for Appointed Actuaries .
17 The UK Queen 's Awards for Industry system has been extended this year to include an environmental category , with twelve companies being judged worthy of recognition for a " significant advance " offering " major benefits in environmental terms compared to existing products , technology or processes " .
18 In recent years the stability of the international monetary system has been threatened by the debt problem of ‘ middle-income ’ countries such as Brazil and Argentina .
19 A voluntary system has been ruled unworkable by the industry because individual farmers would not accept limits on their production if other farmers , or countries , were benefiting by breaking the arrangement .
20 The immediate effects of changing the system has been characterised by economic difficulties in the new federal states .
21 Once the system has been recorded , and before evaluation proceeds , a " walk through test " may be carried out ( i.e. take every step in the procedure and work through it ) to check that the record is complete and correct .
22 Since the first publication , the system has been revised at seven- or eight-year intervals and the eighteenth edition was published in 1971 .
23 The system has been born out of rapid expansion in recent years as the business has opened new centres and employed more people .
24 Security A burglar alarm system has been fitted to cover entrance to the hall and the caretaker 's room .
25 Security A burglar alarm system has been fitted to cover entrance to the hall and the caretaker 's room .
26 The local financial system has been drained of liquidity , interest rates have gone up and the stockmarket has been falling .
27 This makes it difficult to reach a decision , and causes a nagging worry as to whether the right system has been selected .
28 In the first chapter I dealt briefly with some of the major ways in which the global system has been categorized .
29 A system has been devised which measures the degree of UVA to UVB protection , but some products will feature the measurement as a star rating system on the back of pack .
30 A PC-based system has been devised for the prediction of subsurface present-day and palaeotemperatures in sedimentary basins .
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