Example sentences of "system can be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I do not accept that a home aquarium system can be devised which requires no water changes at all .
2 For example , two colossal standing figures that are among the museum 's Nubian treasures will remain in the Egyptian galleries until a system can be devised to shore up the structure .
3 Some writers , who have emphasized the legal ultimacy of the rule of recognition , have expressed this by saying that , whereas the legal validity of other rules of the system can be demonstrated by reference to it , its own validity can not be demonstrated but is ‘ assumed ’ or ‘ postulated ’ or is a ‘ hypothesis ’ .
4 The benefits of this system can be demonstrated by the example of the trader who carted a crate of whetstones from Craven Arms , or possibly from Stony Stratford , to Wroxeter for a market day , where he found himself in the company of other merchants selling mortaria as well as samian ware from Gaul .
5 One senior Hong Kong government official told New Scientist : ‘ One of the things we hope to find out is whether the system can be fiddled .
6 The mathematics required to convert the two voltages back into angles and hence into an actual position on the baseboard are relatively complex but once the relationship has been established the system can be made self-calibrating .
7 If the Apple/Microsoft system can be made to work on both PCs and Macintoshes and is actually delivered within a reasonable space of time then it may become a second standard .
8 Scottish motorists , however , could receive preferential rates if , as expected , they are used as guinea pigs to prove that the theory of in-car navigation system can be made to work effectively on a national scale .
9 In addition , the system can be instructed to accept different spellings for the same word , or different words with the same meaning .
10 The system can be instructed to prevent individual extensions from making certain calls such as IDD ( international direct dialling ) and STD ( subscriber trunk dialling ) .
11 An intervals the system can be increased by a further analytical , statistical or informational function , capable of processing information which might otherwise need an additional personnel assistant to maintain .
12 The argument is likely to be less over the substance of the legislation than over whether the system can be implemented .
13 Just as the post-war local government system can be understood as a key element of the social-democratic consensus developed in that period , so it has been argued that ‘ what is needed is a new municipal culture ’ to fit the changed social and economic realities of the late twentieth century ( Walker , 1983 , p. 10 ) .
14 Species present in aqueous solutions can be studied , most conveniently by Raman spectroscopy , so that , for example , the equilibria involved in the aqueous carbonate/bicarbonate/CO 2 system can be understood [ 17 ] .
15 interfaces be developed so that the range of spatial operations in a system can be organized into standardized functions or tasks , and so that the spatial database can be visualized .
16 The way the database is structured ( Chapter 2 ) will , however , determine the types of question that the information system can be asked .
17 Thanks to the action of the autonomic nervous system , any disorder of the digestive system can be exacerbated by the emotions — IBS is not unique in this respect .
18 The conventional diatonic system can be disrupted in many other ways without going into the realms of chromatic harmony , bitonality , polytonality , etc .
19 In this way , the legal system can be said to become ‘ self-reflexive ’ : it develops the capacity to reformulate the rules by which it functions .
20 The Stalinist system can be said to be ‘ Based on a state of siege mentality ’ .
21 You can also make an appointment with the librarian or one of his staff so that the classification system can be explained to you together with any skills involved in scanning the microfiche for details of authors , articles and sources .
22 In addition to providing possible screening tests for colorectal cancer , molecular biology will be extremely useful if an improved staging system can be constructed .
23 We now turn to a description of change in /a/ , with which the /Ε/; system can be compared .
24 While the American federal system has been likened to a marble cake , the British political system can be likened to a patchwork quilt .
25 Almost all of the basic principles of his utilitarian programme in relation to the criminal justice system can be traced back to Dei Delitti e delle Pene .
26 This project seeks to establish a baseline from which evolution of a truly European political system can be tracked over the coming centuries of political development .
27 Whilst each of the two systems embraces a host of different proposals , the ‘ pure ’ forms of the two types of system can be characterized as follows [ … ]
28 A press system can be defined as paralleling a party system when such links exist between each newspaper and a party …
29 It describes the methods by which the integrity and stability of the system can be maintained .
30 By a small shift in the balance of power between the genders , the harem system can be converted into a matriarchy .
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