Example sentences of "system was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Kursk guberniia the telephone system was a subject for derision . |
| 2 | The lack of an efficient railway system was a major contributing factor to the stagnant economy . |
| 3 | One obvious was of demonstrating that this system was a specific historical product was to show that it was not always so , and Marx and Engels turned to history and anthropology to demonstrate this . |
| 4 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 5 | The exhaust system was a mangle of welded and leaking pipes which stuck out almost at ground level , which we replaced with the super Jake Wright Conversion . |
| 6 | Hecht believes that this system was a source of conflict in domestic employment . |
| 7 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 8 | BR 's claim that it might cost £33 million to convert to a modern power system was a crucial element in the decision to close the tunnel . |
| 9 | The franchise system was a good way for us to get into thatching as it dispensed with the need to endure a long apprenticeship , gave us a six-month intensive course teaching all the rudiments of thatching , and provided contracts and a source of cheap materials . |
| 10 | Although re-implementation of the existing system was a possibility , developing a new IT solution inhouse was never seriously considered . |
| 11 | Since it was designed to be earthquake proof and to resist cannon fire , the installation of the revised air-conditioning system was a remarkable feat as well as a test of the building . |
| 12 | When it came to assembling facts and details , the system was a formidable obstacle . |
| 13 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 14 | More accurately , they launched an attack on the idea that activity in the autonomic nervous system was a sufficient condition for emotional experience . |
| 15 | The system was a form of gold exchange standard since all currencies were expressed in terms of the dollar and the latter was officially convertible into gold at the fixed price of $35 an ounce . |
| 16 | Reform as the central aim of the penal system was a highly popular notion in the 1950s and 1960s : penological thought was dominated by ‘ the rehabilitative ideal ’ . |
| 17 | I tried to answer the King as well as I could , but he did not think our system was a good one . |
| 18 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 19 | And the hot water system was a little boiler at the side of the fire as well and you used to have a ladle and take it out of the out of the er out of the boiler on the side . |
| 20 | Not that the binary system was a creation of the government for , as the then Secretary of State for Education , Anthony Crosland , observed in a speech in 1967 , ‘ I did not invent the plural or binary system which we inherited … . |
| 21 | The modern-day innovator of the system was a mild-mannered Okinawan schoolteacher named Gichin Funakoshi , who in 1917 gave a private exhibition of the art to the emperor of Japan . |
| 22 | However , like it or not , this policy , together with our alternating crewing system was a very wise move on the part of management . |
| 23 | The system was a scandal . |
| 24 | The integration system was a PU3202 computer utilising PU6000 software ( Phillips Scientific ) . |
| 25 | The HWIM system did not limit phoneme identity at all in the early acoustic-phonetic stages ; each of the phoneme labels used by the system was a possible candidate for each segmentation . |
| 26 | All this suggests that the allowance system was a response to rather than a cause of the relief burden . |
| 27 | Until this point , the issue system was a modified Browne charging " system based on a weekly rather than a daily record . |
| 28 | When he suggested that the European Monetary System was a German racket to take over Europe , he had to go , to the dismay of his biggest fan |
| 29 | He said the existing system was a throwback to the days when each borough ran its own affairs and added that for much of the time the heavy rescue unit could only be used if firemen were taken off other machines . |
| 30 | At the start of the season , the defensive system was a sweeper one , it worked superbly , we were winning though , but it , it 's the , it 's the reincarnation of the battle of Culloden as far as I 'm concerned ; Bonnie Prince Charlie just trying to swamp the Duke of Cumberland . |