Example sentences of "system was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 2 | The accuracy of selection , if the system was to be maintained more or less intact , was of the highest importance . |
| 3 | This all-enfolding system was to be thoroughly metaphysical and consistently rational . |
| 4 | Along with other major applications within the company , the new Payroll/Personnel System was to be designed and developed using on-line database techniques , in particular the IBM database/data communications management system , IMS . |
| 5 | The system was to be protected by two levels of security . |
| 6 | The Photo-CD system was to be ordered . |
| 7 | An ombudsman system was to be established , comprising a panel of three serving or former Supreme Court justices , to investigate allegations of corruption in government with jurisdiction extending to the Prime Minister 's office . |
| 8 | A multiple exchange rate system was to be retained until full international convertibility of the rouble . |
| 9 | In November 1990 the President confirmed that a multiparty system was to be established [ see p. 37841 ] . |
| 10 | His whole system was to be tested to its limits when a war with France began in 1793 which lasted , with only brief intermission , for more than twenty years . |
| 11 | This system was to be the predecessor of the various experiments under the Tudors to exercise special control in the North , measures which not only reflect the problems of governing a region remote from the centre of public power but also tell us something about the tensions between a local aristocracy and the Crown . |