Example sentences of "system be [conj] [pron] [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 key to such a system is that everyone asks : Who in this organization depends on me for what information ?
4 The trouble with our system is that we overdo the disqualification and pay insufficient attention to requalification .
5 A further advantage of choosing a fish-only system is that you do n't need to extend your mortgage to light the aquarium as is necessary with photosynthetic ( light loving ) invertebrates such as corals and anemones which require high-intensity expensive lighting systems .
6 ‘ The beauty of this system is that you do n't have to leave your desk to find out about the whole wealth of information we have at hand . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 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 .
11 The most significant thing about the system is that it allows the operator to lay out pages on the screen .
12 the major benefit of the system is that it allows partners and managers to tap into the system directly .
13 The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion .
14 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 .
15 Another benefit of such a system is that it enables one to learn about the human resources of the organization in a different way :
16 The traditional view of the visual system is that it involves a cascade of processing stages running from the retina to the ‘ association ’ cortex .
17 The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 One of the attributes of such a system is that it makes available to all concerned the information they need to discharge their responsibilities .
22 One of the major concerns about the tax system is whether it discourages or encourages the growth of the economy .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions .
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