Example sentences of "system [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first system used was HELP ( housing in exchange for land ) and the second was ‘ Partnership ’ . |
| 2 | The problem each system faced was that the matching process created a large number of partial solutions , and various heuristics had to be used to cut down the search space . |
| 3 | The most rigorous deduction of new ends can not release me , as long as it was from spontaneous goals that the ends from which my system grew were themselves originally chosen . |
| 4 | The base from which this system grew was limited , especially in rural areas , though nothing like as deprived as that which faced Frelimo in Mozambique at independence . |
| 5 | In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized . |
| 6 | Pc Geoff Towle , secretary of the federation 's Derbyshire branch , said the quota system had been operated by senior CID men who did little to conceal it . |
| 7 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 8 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 9 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 10 | So-called civilisation arrived in Sutherland in the nineteenth century , after the clan system had been destroyed by the disastrous machinations of Prince Charles Edward Stewart , Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 11 | If the redshift of the system had been more than 0.1 , still modest for a quasar , neither host nor companion would be visible . |
| 12 | ‘ That system had been bypassed . |
| 13 | During the year the heating system had been improved , the church clock repaired and a floodlight installed to light the path to the gate . |
| 14 | Although the system had been modified in many villages so that the strips fell together instead of being widely separated , everybody , including squatters , had access to the common land and was able to earn some sort of a living from it , and this could be supplemented seasonally by labouring or harvesting for a bigger landowner . |
| 15 | The study of the proposed L.R.T. system had been ordered by the Department of the Environment , and it appeared to all intents and purposes that any future for the Comber-Dundonald portion of the line , at least as far as the Trust was concerned , were dead and buried , as it seemed evident that the D.O.E . |
| 16 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 17 | In the fuel crisis of February 1947 , an already overstretched system had been brought to breaking point : electricity supplies to many users had been periodically interrupted for weeks on end and other supplies had been restricted , in the severest winter for more than a hundred years . |
| 18 | The only drug in the assassin 's system had been purpose , and that would not lay him low , tonight or any other . |
| 19 | His whole system had been stirred to nausea as he relinquished power to the sight of her . |
| 20 | Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations . |
| 21 | The instrument of royal power which the pomestie system had been designed to create became increasingly unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | The introduction of a national health care system had been a major plank in Carter 's programme in 1976 , but his proposals failed to become law . |
| 23 | The 159 galleries in Holland which had been selected to sell under the scheme , occasionally got rid of old stock by artists long dead , or even sold objects which did not fall under the category of works for which the system had been intended . |
| 24 | When I said I was , she asked if I had access to the satellite telephone , the only means of making an international call since the phone system had been destroyed in January . |
| 25 | The evidence indicated that all parts of the flying control system had been connected at the time of the accident , and no evidence of a control restriction or jam were found , although such a possibility could not be totally dismissed , given the degree of disruption in some areas . |
| 26 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 27 | By 1872 the old caste system had been abolished . |
| 28 | He even referred Galileo to de Zuñiga 's commentary on Job in which the Copernican system had been countenanced . |
| 29 | Indeed , one of Wilkins 's arguments in favor of the Copernican system had been that the alternative — imputing a daily rotation to the heavens — would be to argue ‘ improvidence in nature . ’ |
| 30 | There had been good reason to know that Labour could damage Unionist electoral prospects and the dangerous prospect of a class-based party system had been present in the Liberal-Labour alliance . |