Example sentences of "[noun] system " in BNC.

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1 UNIPLEX HAS NEW E-MAIL SYSTEM
2 Richard added : ‘ The communications boys are doing their sums and I am confident we shall be able to upgrade our E-mail system .
3 However , once the E-mail system has been set up , it works very well , although it does n't allow for real-time chatting facilities , and is quite basic in its facilities .
4 For most companies , starting an E-mail system is like developing a television service : until there are enough people out there turning on their sets , there 's no impetus or money available to make good shows and without good shows who wants to buy a telly ?
5 In spite of the laudable attempts by British Telecom and Highlands and Islands Enterprise to improve things , there is really only one way to send words down the telephone line , particularly to newspapers , and that is by Mercury 's Link 7500 E-mail system .
6 Traditionally , single stranded DNA for sequencing was obtained by cloning into the M13 bacteriophage system and subsequently purifying phage DNA .
7 It says it has distributed over 300 copies of the beta system to an assortment of users including hackers , old DOS buffs and big brand name computer makers .
8 The advantage of the échelle des crus system is that it recognises a distinction in quality between two undeniably fine and relatively similar growths .
9 Unlike the mother-country and its dependencies , above all India , the self-governing colonies were protectionist ; but they were now prepared , and indeed in some cases were anxious , to afford the mother-country preferential treatment within their tariff system if the mother-country would reciprocate .
10 The roots of German economic unification lie as far back as 1818 , when Prussia unified her own tariff system .
11 The following are inevitably subordinated to the law of primitive socialist production : the amount of surplus product alienated from private economy ; the level of wages in the state economy ; prices policy ; the regulation of internal and external trade ; the tariff system ; credit policy ; the structure of the budget ; the structure of import plans ; and so on .
12 This month Cellnet launched its Lifetime tariff system which is aimed at the light user — the lone woman motorist or people who only make the occasional vital call .
13 Both parties tried to organize support for their position , but the great majority of market women supported the Society of Women Market Vendors , an independent organization formed to oppose the new tariff system .
14 Saitoti announced measures to promote exports , including a reform of the import tariff system to assist imports of manufacturing inputs .
15 Motility of the oesophagus , antrum , and upper small intestine was recorded by means of a manometric perfused catherter system .
16 So far as the latter are concerned it has often been noted that a simple-majority single ballot system tends to produce a two-party system , proportional representation a system with several parties , and a simple majority two-ballot system a regime in which there are several parties , but the formation of electoral alliances may result in something like a two-party system .
17 LASMO holds extensive interests in the northern part of the Southern Gas Basin centred around the Caister-Murdoch system .
18 ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right .
19 In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin .
20 Students might be required , for example , to sketch the layout of the kitchen , noting the position of fire-extinguishers and emergency exits , they might be asked to note the pattern of use in the restaurant ; which are peak hours ; what sort of music is played ; what arrangements are made for smokers ; what is the cleaning cycle for bedrooms and corridors ; what sort of internal accounting system is used — the list could go on , but all are investigative tasks which need the help of hotel staff and which , if properly recorded can be assessed .
21 The tax system , the accounting system and the legal system , for example , are all likely to be affected by inflation .
22 So far as the accounting system is concerned , the traditional accountants ' concept of profit is no longer true profit when inflation is present .
23 And you 'll find our billing methods are flexible enough for us to agree whichever best fits in with your existing accounting system and credit period preference .
24 In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished .
25 No one can escape the knowledge that we occupy that ‘ real world ’ , defined by profit and loss , the bottom line of an accounting system that is inflexible and unappealable .
26 Each night , all British Gypsum manufacturing sites send details of sales to a central accounting system , which processes the transactions and passes invoices to Atlas .
27 She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ .
28 Multilanguage support , for example , may be essential to a company intending to use a common accounting system in all of its subsidiaries , even if like Intergraph ( see panel on p 66 ) the subsidiaries are all expected to use the language of the parent company .
29 Anyway , Europe boasts a variety of approaches to this tax even the number of VAT periods varies by country — all of which may potentially need accommodating by any accounting system claiming to be pan-European .
30 The accounting system has relatively few users — about five in London , 10 in New York and two in Hong Kong .
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