Example sentences of "system [be] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What I like about the system is that it does n't shout its presence to human interlopers : what do you do when your anti-predator device is preyed upon by the local villain ? |
| 6 | One of the benefits of the ANLT 's morphological system is that it does not need to explicitly store all of the words it knows . |
| 7 | The most significant thing about the system is that it allows the operator to lay out pages on the screen . |
| 8 | the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly . |
| 9 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
| 10 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |
| 11 | Another benefit of such a system is that it enables one to learn about the human resources of the organization in a different way : |
| 12 | The traditional view of the visual system is that it involves a cascade of processing stages running from the retina to the ‘ association ’ cortex . |
| 13 | The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths . |
| 14 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 17 | One of the attributes of such a system is that it makes available to all concerned the information they need to discharge their responsibilities . |
| 18 | One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy . |
| 19 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |