Example sentences of "[adj] system had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old system had been removed , but the new ones were not yet working at full power . |
| 2 | 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 , |
| 3 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 6 | But Mr Dyke said the formula for the first two years of the new 10-year system had been agreed . |
| 7 | He said a Labour government would call a halt to road and rail improvements until a logical system had been devised . |
| 8 | On the facts , a safe system had been devised but when the operation of the system was delegated to the other company it was not operated properly . |
| 9 | Reports indicated that dissatisfaction with the single-party system had been mounting among the ( largely Roman Catholic ) population . |
| 10 | A package of laws redefining local government structure , responsibilities and powers and the electoral system had been rushed through the National Assembly in recent weeks . |
| 11 | In some departments , noticeably the music departments , there was evident relief that the restrictions caused by the previous ‘ O ’ level system had been eradicated , and that at long last an examination had been introduced that corresponded more closely to the actual nature of their subject . |
| 12 | He even referred Galileo to de Zuñiga 's commentary on Job in which the Copernican system had been countenanced . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The professional and administrative sectors of the now dominant social class ( itself a fusion of the high bourgeoisie and the landed aristocracy ) had become increasingly important in the new social order of liberal imperialist England ; indeed the educational system had been reformed , at its higher levels , primarily for their production . |
| 15 | ‘ That system had been bypassed . |
| 16 | That system had been intended for some time . |
| 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 | Of the 23% who did not approve of the devolution , some commented on the speed with which the new system had been introduced and of the lack of opportunity for staff development ; others were concerned that localised development meant duplication of effort . |
| 19 | His whole system had been stirred to nausea as he relinquished power to the sight of her . |
| 20 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 21 | The respiratory system had been modified , so that air could be breathed in through the nose , as customary , but out through apertures behind the ears . |