Example sentences of "system [is] so " in BNC.

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1 At present , this is just not possible in the vast majority of NHS hospitals , because the quality of management information systems is so poor .
2 The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody .
3 Dr Estelle Ramey , professor emeritus of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine , USA , explains that ‘ your system is so delicately balanced that it 's very difficult for your body to make two types of hormones at once .
4 Now the new regime want him back to stand trial , but to get extradition they have to establish a prima facie case under British law and their system is so different from ours that their evidence wo n't stand up over here .
5 The Milton Keynes road system is so incomprehensible that you would be forced to spend the rest of your life driving round and round the ring road with a car full of nicked gear …
6 This is because the system is so complicated that no historian could use it without explicit support from the AI project group .
7 The system is so sensitive that the organs can detect changes in temperature as small as 0.003 degrees Celsius , while they can respond to such changes in an incredible 35 milliseconds — many hundreds of times faster than any human-made device .
8 This system is so sophisticated that the owl can locate and memorise the position of a rustle without even moving its head and , as it swoops , it can align its claws along a mouse 's body guided only by sound .
9 One reason for its presence in the USA might be that the American higher education system is so heterogeneous , fulfilling such different functions and admitting such a diversity of students , that questions about the character of the learning experience arise naturally .
10 Since this value system is so pervasive and so accepted there has never really been a need to develop other value systems that arise from actual social situations .
11 Secondly because the system is so basic in operation the processing occurs at a rate faster than a human writes .
12 The reason for this is that the system is so highly structured that there is no question of uncertainty and it would therefore be impossible to impair the efficiency of it .
13 This system is so named because at beast two accounts ( for example , cash , stock , accounts payable ) are always affected by each transaction .
14 If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail .
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