Example sentences of "system be [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Now systems are being refocused and designed to support decision-making and activities at all levels of the district health system , including the community level . |
2 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
3 | New irrigation systems have been installed on around half the irrigated farmland around the city , the channels of three rivers are being dredged , and separate drainage systems are being built for waste water . |
4 | Demonstrations of image archive systems are being arranged . |
5 | The way in which care programming had been introduced from the ‘ top down ’ was also seen as a disadvantage , ‘ We were given a lot of freedom to develop services in the eighties , now we feel new systems are being imposed ’ . |
6 | For the future , Acorn says that in the professional arena , powerful systems are being developed its computers , and it will co-ordinate and exploit this opportunity in key areas such as the professional publishing market . |
7 | Increasingly they live in giant slums centred on the world 's major cities and their countries ' limited social services and education and health systems are being ravaged by the market economy . |
8 | Other systems are being added to the list — precise details are not available — and will be available in the first quarter of next year . |
9 | The hard economics of open systems are being addressed in a big way by Tandem Computers Inc , both in products and manufacturing . |
10 | DROs are not likely to have very great access to the more confidential and high-status activities where many of the most advanced computer systems are being introduced . |
11 | Discussions should also be held when relevant systems are being considered during the early stages , and when some specialist input ( ie from the organisation ) would be advantageous to the modelling exercises . |
12 | Additional modifications to the cargo door locking and pressurisation systems are being considered as part of a continued investigation effort . |
13 | Such systems are being engineered for hostile environments such as nuclear reactors , battlefields and even space stations . |
14 | The technology has advanced to the point where systems are being used for real ( albeit simple ) applications rather than demonstrations [ Grishman , 1986 ] . |
15 | The method can work if there is a long time for the change-over , if both channels can be kept open and if it does not matter that the two systems are being used haphazardly . |
16 | Increasingly , however , relational database management systems are being used so that they are now by far the most common database management systems . |
17 | Interactive says there is a lot of interest , and that ports of the technology for Sun Sparc and IBM RS/6000 systems are being proposed . |
18 | Competition and complementarity between systems are being stressed , together with an assessment of likely technological advances . |
19 | Other compression systems are being designed for special applications such as videoconferencing schemes . |
20 | But tenants taking advantage of the system are being given their marching orders . |
21 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
22 | Thus we find that two very different types of system are being described under the heading ‘ Internal Market ’ . |
23 | By the time of his death in 346 , there were several thousand monks scattered about the Egyptian desert , and the principles underlying the monastic system were being transmitted elsewhere . |
24 | Thus , if the French verb tense system were being drilled , the stimulus could be a time word such as " yesterday " or " tomorrow " , and it would require a correct choice of verb tense . |
25 | By the end of the 1980s , partly as a result of deliberate government action , more perhaps because the unduly optimistic assumptions of Beveridge and other founders of the British welfare system were being falsified by financial and cultural factors ( such as the breakdown of the old nuclear family of fabled tradition ) , the welfare state was far less able to temper the asperities of a harsh and divided society . |
26 | Underlying these themes was the belief that the problems of the British system were being thrown into stark relief by the endless economic difficulties of the 1970s . |
27 | When systems were being adopted in branches of physical geography there were similar developments in other earth sciences . |
28 | However , by the 1970s the early pioneering days of computer data processing were over and more sophisticated integrated systems were being developed . |
29 | Although SmartStream is tied exclusively to the Sybase database at present , interoperability with other systems is being considered and other database engines can be accessed via Information Builders Inc 's EDA/SQL gateway . |
30 | The counter numbers could be replaced by VITC or RCTC code references if one or other of these two systems is being used . |