Example sentences of "the systems [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the products described above are produced and distributed by the systems operators or the database vendors .
2 Although this book was published before many of the systems texts , and therefore is largely non-quantitative , it was refreshing in that it was a brief treatment , which began with the energy budget of the atmosphere and proceeded to include all aspects of the environmental system including the sea in the geosystem , a topic frequently ignored by physical geographers in the second half of the twentieth century .
3 The final part of the exercise , therefore , was to merge the systems conclusions with a more conventional examination of the various real-life factors affecting the way in which new groupings could be achieved .
4 Although the links may evolve ( for example , to mesh in better with the systems developments and other preparations for corporate status ) the close cooperation between users and computer-centre staff continues .
5 SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear .
6 It may now be an internal statement applying an accepted but unstated rule of recognition and meaning ( roughly ) no more than ‘ valid given the systems criteria of validity ’ .
7 Miles ( 1980 ) presents an ‘ ecology model ’ , not dissimilar to the systems models .
8 The systems manuals contain both information on system commands and procedures and detailed descriptions of the available databases .
9 It is the library professionals who must take the initiative and lead the systems vendors in providing better systems for end-users .
10 They have helped define the systems requirements for : needs assessment , financial assessment , resources directories , costing care packages , budget management , commitment accounting , payments to suppliers , and invoice generation .
11 It is also interesting that the loop in figure 1 has not introduced the real world " element , that of change in the environment , affecting the nature of the systems requirements .
12 It is essential for the systems analysts to know precisely what human activity system they are to deal with and what problem they are to tackle .
13 Consultative participation leaves the main design tasks to the systems analysts , but tries to ensure that all staff in the user department are consulted about the change .
14 The systems analysts are encouraged to provide opportunity for increasing job satisfaction when redesigning the system .
15 The exercise of decomposing the system models will aid this process , progressively bringing the systems ideas closer to what can be observed in practice ; imaginative use of unsophisticated computer software can also help , particularly where the level of detail makes manual analysis impracticable ; simple matrices similar to those employed to good effect in many of the studies described in this book can also be of benefit ; not forgetting , of course , the significant value of discussing ideas with experienced staff from the organisation being studied .
16 Other analysts may well develop different ways of making the connection ; however , no matter how close the systems ideas come to the real-world activities , it will always be necessary to temper those ideas with a firm grasp of the practical effects of any changes .
17 The systems verifiers , who each have a wide experience of assessment and verification systems , visit centres to ensure that the internal quality systems required to underpin the delivery of SCOTVEC awards are in place in each centre .
18 The systems verifiers work closely with the external verifiers to ensure that centres receive support , both on subject issues ( the external verifiers ' responsibility ) and on internal quality systems ( the systems verifiers ' responsibility ) .
19 The systems verifiers work closely with the external verifiers to ensure that centres receive support , both on subject issues ( the external verifiers ' responsibility ) and on internal quality systems ( the systems verifiers ' responsibility ) .
20 The systems verifiers at work
21 The systems verifiers are at the end of a telephone and can be contacted by phoning the numbers below .
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