Example sentences of "system [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be a fire in the grass on the dunes , or a plane would have crashed , and all that stopped the cordite in the cellar from going up would be me diverting some of the water from a dam system down a channel and into the house . |
| 2 | I it 's only , th the attacks were against those people who abused the system not the system . |
| 3 | Some hedgerow stops are often the beginnings of a new burrow system once the doe and her young move out . |
| 4 | Liffe is also likely to steal a march on Globex , the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's electronic trading system now the victim of the ancient rivalry with the Chicago Board of Trade . |
| 5 | With the Keld Head system now the longest underwater cave in Europe , at some 6.5 kilometres , what were Yeadon 's and Crossley 's thoughts on the dive : |
| 6 | The concept of ‘ teaching by objectives ’ , and regular progress monitoring , can be regarded as offering a system whereby no child slips through the net . |
| 7 | The Government still has to work out a points system whereby a cross-section of Hong Kong residents , whose skills are needed , will be given full British citizenship rights between 1992 and 1997 . |
| 8 | Most Conservative opinion had long been opposed to the system whereby a trade union could contribute to the Labour Party a proportion of each member 's subscription , unless the member specially contracted out . |
| 9 | On top of that they have a random check system whereby a number of estates are sampled . |
| 10 | In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear . |
| 11 | A second method is through a contingency fee system whereby a lawyer agrees to act for a client on the basis that he or she will receive an agreed proportion of any damages recovered . |
| 12 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 13 | With stocks running perilously low , the Czechoslovak government on Oct. 6 introduced a fuel rationing system whereby a maximum 25 litres could be bought at existing prices , with purchases over that limit charged at prices one-third higher ( all petrol was to be charged at the higher price from Nov. 1 ) . |
| 14 | As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement . |
| 15 | Only the Wesleyans had a system whereby the national organization had any control and even they had problems . |
| 16 | It is ironic that the British government should have gone through so many contortions over local government tax , finally to arrive at a system whereby the bulk of tax is raised centrally and distributed to the local authorities , while such a system has been the norm in Germany for decades . |
| 17 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 18 | Both professional organisations and the statutory bodies have worked hard to achieve a career structure which rewards so-called ‘ hands on ’ nursing , and moves away from a system whereby the standard route for promotion is removal from direct patient care into a separate hierarchical management role . |
| 19 | What was established was a system whereby the government was put in a sort of market situation . |
| 20 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 21 | Will the Secretary of State explain where is the remotest sense in the present system whereby the editor of a national newspaper pays less than 1 per cent . |
| 22 | Decree laws on Jan. 31 provided ( i ) for the assignment of co-operative land for farmers , for their own long-term use , up to 0.5 hectares ; ( ii ) for farmers ' houses to become their own property ; and ( iii ) for an incentive system whereby the incomes of co-operative and state farms would relate to their sales . |
| 23 | Commonhold is simply a system whereby the owner of the flat ( the tenure can also in certain circumstances apply to houses , or even offices or other commercial developments ) owns two things — first , the freehold of his individual unit and , secondly , an inalienable right to use the common parts and other services of his block . |
| 24 | This is achieved by providing a system whereby the information regarding the cut is conveyed in a manner closely resembling the conventional process of the skilled machinist . |
| 25 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 26 | The LGS is a system whereby the government guarantees loans provided by banks to small businesses in situations where the risk may be high and finance might not otherwise be provided . |
| 27 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 28 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 29 | As far as we were concerned , if you removed the architects and managers of the system then the whole thing would collapse , and who , we asked , in the massive majority of cases were they , if not men ? |
| 30 | If a process is distributed across a number of elements of a system then the situation is much more complex . |