Example sentences of "system that [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 Vaill sought to identify the characteristics of what he described as ‘ high-performing systems ’ in organizations , and ‘ human systems that perform at levels of excellence far beyond those of comparable systems ’ .
2 A radical new approach to solar energy may come from biotechnology — a broad class of systems that have at their core photosynthetic and biological energy conversion processes .
3 The global system is most fruitfully conceptualized as a system that operates at three levels , knowledge about which can be organized in three spheres , namely the economic , the political and the cultural-ideological .
4 In essence behind the austere language is the fact that Epictetus had a philosophy and system that looked at all events from a higher viewpoint .
5 And perhaps most fundamental of all , we have to try to live and teach according to our ideals , and to promote them , whilst at the same time trying to make a good career within a system that seems at many points to be based on quite antagonistic values .
6 This point is made not in the interests of pedantry , but because it bears directly on the criticisms of current approaches to the global system that lie at the heart of this book .
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