Example sentences of "[noun sg] system be [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths .
2 A final reason for the possible failure of an appraisal system is that it is conducted as a top down , rather than a bottom up approach .
3 Apart from helping to improve actual work performance the main benefits of adopting a formal appraisal system are that it :
4 The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market .
5 Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions .
6 The required user attributes of the software management system are that it is efficient in operation and supportive of the needs of software producers .
7 One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy .
8 The advantage of the group system is that it ensures that members of the respective parties put forward clear cut views at the meetings of the council .
9 As its name implies , the distinctive feature of this automated trading system is that it emulates physical pit trading on the screen ; other electronic screen systems are order matching systems only .
10 He argues , for instance , that the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic writing system were that it became ‘ easy , explicit and unambiguous ’ .
11 The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion .
12 So successful has the state system been that it has lost only about 1 per cent of its operations to a private competitor under the system of tendering for the provision of local passenger services that was also introduced by the 1988 rail reforms .
13 The basic point about the national insurance system is that it is a contributory one whereby what is paid bears some relationship to what is received .
14 The hallmark of a good management information system is that it should be politically neutral ; that is , it should address the economic consequences of government policy regardless of their ideological viewpoint .
15 The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion .
16 The great disadvantage of a CAD system is that it currently has no data structure .
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