Example sentences of "the system [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 especially housing finance terms , I mean the system 's probably gon na change again by , you know , by that sort of time .
2 It 's incurable the reason I say it 's incurable the system 's too
3 The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one
4 But then the system 's there to be abused and people abuse it .
5 The system 's virtually glitch-proof : three technicians can run the whole thing .
6 For the small producer , subcontracting to a TNC , the system is prohibitively expensive and the expertise required to run it is considerable , so it tends to be controlled by TNCs , or by the gargantuan retailers that they supply .
7 The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability .
8 The cost of the system is already £1.8 billion less than the original estimate announced in the House in 1982 .
9 In this particular organisation planning will not take a major role because the system is already well-defined and should operate in the same way on a day-to-day basis .
10 The system is completely automatic and produces high purity gases to 99.999 per cent .
11 Because of this , the system is rarely used now , but it does still exist in some older houses .
12 Access to the system is nearly always indirect and therefore slow , and likely to be confined to certain times because of a need to load the payroll or manpower tapes within the computer centre .
13 The point of economic activity for ‘ ordinary members ’ of the system is simply to provide the resources to be consumers , and the point of political activity is to ensure , usually through inactivity , that the conditions for consuming are maintained .
14 The system is computationally intensive .
15 Hence the vocabulary of the system is effectively unlimited , unlike models working at the word level where the size of the model increases very rapidly with the size of the vocabulary .
16 The system is not a new invention .
17 It 's a good idea to run your central heating pump for a few minutes a week in summer to prevent it from seizing up when the system is not in use .
18 Since these females may breed more effectively when older the system is not necessarily disadvantageous to them ( Elliot 1975 ) .
19 Thus , it is clear that the system is not going to get easier for advisers , and it is going to be increasingly important for them to have more than a passing understanding and experience of it .
20 Furthermore , the system is not only trustworthy but all information is absolutely sacrosanct .
21 Any time you have something such as the Rodney King incident on video tape for the entire nation to see , and the jurors somehow arrive at a verdict of not guilty , it is obvious that the system is not based on truth or justice at all .
22 The system is not multimedia in the classic sense of the term ; it uses only fixed images .
23 The system is not cheap — the record controller and two cameras cost £25,000 , the playback controller is £5,000 .
24 Most chairmen continued to believe , as they had told the Ministry in July 1953 , that ‘ the role of tariff policy , taken by itself , in improving the load factor of the system is not capable of much further advance . ’
25 Neither of the formulas so far mentioned will do ; the Gibbs formula gives an entropy that for an isolated system of molecules is easily shown to stay constant in time rather than to increase , and the Boltzmann formula also does not have the desired non-decrease property if the system is not a gas .
26 The system is not protected against interruption of the power supply .
27 Unfortunately , even with the practice of awarding half a star over the minimum grading the system is not entirely satisfactory as standards and even prices very enormously in each star grade .
28 Family health services authority professional advisers will be keen to see that the system is not bypassed by hospital consultants who , having had a request to use a product turned down , ask general practitioners to initiate the prescription .
29 From the later middle years onward , there is some decline in the body 's production of the male hormones and this will begin to have marked effect in the seventies ; but , again , continued sexual activity will serve to keep hormonal levels up , so that it is legitimate to say that sexual activity in the man can continue — provided his health is good and the system is not impaired by disability — well into the eighth decade of life or even longer , provided he keeps in practice .
30 If they are inaccurate , then the obvious strategy would be to try to rectify the perceptions , by persuading people that the system is not unjust after all .
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