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

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1 IBM is developing a hardware-independent microkernel system based upon the Carnegie Mellon University Mach3 system that 'll take advantage of its own and Taligent object technologies .
2 He was asked to survey the possibilities of a canal to connect the Mersey with the Trent , and he began to conceive an inland waterway system that would link the rivers Thames , Severn , Trent and Mersey .
3 It is a system that would lend itself to any sizeable district general hospital .
4 In this kind of situation they might be concerned to hold on to what they have by accepting a change in the electoral system that would block the prospect of a Socialist Government committed to extensive state intervention and a more " extreme " kind of constitutional reconstruction .
5 One is a bare-bones system that would start with just solar panels and could be developed bit by bit into a laboratory for space-shuttle crews to visit .
6 We do not want any disincentives in the system that would prevent people doing post-basic training and becoming nurse prescribers .
7 WGFP were approached by main electrical contractor Hutcheon Electrical to provide a system that would meet very strict criteria .
8 The aim was to use the wealth from one natural resource , to fund a system that would return Mexico to self-sufficiency in basic foods .
9 Last year Italians voted in a referendum for changes to the voting system that would weaken the control of the party elites .
10 NCA can undertake a wide variety of specialist role modifications to the Caribou and are currently working on a palletised anti-pollution system that would enable an operator to maintain the capacity of the fuselage , but to change to oil-slick dispersant status very quickly .
11 Should more hydrogen problems develop , NASA has built a ‘ purge ’ system that would drive helium into the rear sections of the shuttle to clear out any pockets of hydrogen .
12 Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system .
13 When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future .
14 At the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 the Allies came together in an attempt to design an international monetary system that would operate in the post-war period .
15 It was intended to replace the older DOS operating system with a more sophisticated system that would let people use several programs at once .
16 The Secondary Examinations Council , established in 1984 to introduce the new-style exam , set out in its published General Criteria ( 1985 ) its commitment to this philosophy , to a system that would demonstrate what candidates ‘ know , understand and can do ’ .
17 He is more concerned with the industry-wide slow progress in inter-language communication and believes Oracle could impose one kind of object system that would have a big influence on OO programming languages .
18 For when the Carrs have their home broken in to , it 's Officer Davis who supervises the installation of a high-tech security system that would suit the Clintons when they get around to revamping the White House .
19 Honours System that would replace favour with merit ?
20 Suffolk BMA representative David Meldrum welcomed any leaflets explaining when night calls are appropriate but warned against written material or a penalty system that would discourage patients from calling their doctor .
21 This computerised index replaced a card index system that used to have to be updated by hand by bureaux staff .
22 The Ariadne has a radio system that can transmit to , and receive transmissions from , any quarter of the globe .
23 ‘ The three year cost of a new system that can handle the load effectively is often cheaper , pound for pound , than the three year cost of supporting an old , slow , ineffective machine , ’ MacCormick said .
24 Dent explains : ‘ Our process seeks to provide a simple , yet robust , system that can feed the treated plastic waste back into the processing of chemicals and can easily be used alongside refineries or chemicals plants . ’
25 If ‘ life ’ is defined broadly ; perhaps , as we suggested earlier , as any kind of chemical system that can evolve adaptively , then it is possible to envisage life of a kind that does not involve water .
26 For example , a system that can compute convexity may be in principle incapable of computing spatial connectedness ( Rosenblatt 1958 ) .
27 And it is the healthy CV system that can cope easily with all the strains placed upon it by modern living .
28 There is yet no commercially available OCR system that can cope with handwritten ( or even hand-printed ) text .
29 They aim to establish a working system that can cope with arrivals on the present scale .
30 On the areas worst hit , John Williams , northern divisional director of Welsh Water , said : ‘ There 's no system that can cope with that . ’
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