noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a class system/structure (=a social system that has classes)
▪ He felt he was a victim of the class system.
a communication system
▪ The natural communication system for humans is speech.
a computer system
▪ Our office is installing a new computer system.
a defence system (=a system of people, organizations etc to defend a country)
▪ Is the national defence system adequate?
a form/method/system of communication (=something you use to exchange information)
▪ At university, lectures are the main form of communication.
a heating system
▪ The gas leak was caused by a faulty heating system.
a political system
▪ Our political system should give ordinary citizens more power.
a security system (=a system of cameras, alarms etc to provide security)
▪ The first stage would be to install security systems and adequate lighting in churches.
a shift system (=a system in which people work shifts)
▪ A shift system was introduced in the department last year.
abuse...system
▪ people who abuse the system
an alarm system
▪ an electronic burglar alarm system
an effective system
▪ The country has a simple but effective welfare system.
an efficient system
▪ We need a more efficient system for collecting money.
an incentive scheme/system
▪ The incentive scheme was introduced to encourage companies to use renewable energy sources.
anti-lock braking system
BAE Systems
be a shock to the system (=be strange because you are not used to something)
▪ Having to work full-time again was quite a shock to the system.
bucked...system (=opposed rules or authority)
▪ He was a rebel who bucked the system.
buddy system
central nervous system
coding system
▪ A coding system is used to record what is found and when.
complex system
▪ a complex system of highways
computerized system
▪ a computerized system for compiling the weekly charts of record sales
cooling system
▪ a fault in the power station’s cooling system
criminal justice system
▪ a book on the criminal justice system
database system/software/application etc
devise a system
▪ How do you devise a system of testing students that is completely fair?
digestive system/organs/juices etc
dual system
▪ a dual system of education
electoral system
▪ Our electoral system strongly favours two-party government.
expert system
frontal system
hierarchical structure/organization/system etc
▪ a hierarchical society
honor system
immune system
▪ My immune system is not as strong as it ought to be.
legal system
▪ the British legal system
legal system
▪ the Scottish legal system
life support system
metric system
nervous system
one-way system
▪ the town’s one-way system
open system
operating system
public-address system
rapid transit system
reproductive system
▪ the human reproductive system
solar system
sound system
subway system
▪ Boston has the oldest subway system in the US.
system administrator
system tray
systems analyst
the criminal justice system
▪ How effective is our criminal justice system?
the economic system (=the way in which the economy of a country or area is organized)
▪ There are fears that the country’s whole economic system could collapse.
the education system (=the way education is organized and managed in a country)
▪ Is the British education system failing some children?
the jury system
▪ The government proposed changes to the jury system.
the rail network/system (=the system of railway lines in a country)
▪ The government has spent £2 billion on improving the country's rail network.
the transport system
▪ We will create a better, more integrated transport system.
turnkey systems
▪ the development and sale of turnkey systems for telecommunications customers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ The taser fires a two-pronged dart that overrides the central nervous system and causes uncontrollable muscle contractions.
▪ A large-scale brain behavior, the central dopaminergic system, has been modeled by King et al { 60 }.
▪ Central reservation systems Large groups of hotels which are linked by computer usually operate their own central reservation system.
▪ The central nervous system appears to be the pre-eminent instrument that has been designed for this function in the course of evolution.
▪ The updated file can then be copied back to the central system, by modem and telephone if necessary.
▪ First, since nicotine is a central nervous system stimulant, it produces almost the same effects on the body as caffeine.
▪ What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system, Fodor calls the central systems.
▪ Thus the eye exists in a body with a central nervous system, capable of reacting to information the eye provides.
complex
▪ In all institutions complex social systems flourished, based on close emotional, homosexual relationships.
▪ But after a summer in Trinidad, he realized he had only scratched the surface of the eclectic and complex belief system.
▪ The constant risk from this radiation means that a complex system of precautions has to be maintained around every nuclear power site.
▪ As with any complex electronic information system or service, a strong support structure can make an enormous difference in customer satisfaction.
▪ Now the whole complex underground system is interlocked and related, and meticulously mapped.
▪ In complex systems a small alteration in the initial conditions can amplify into wide-ranging effects throughout the rest of the system.
▪ It has a complex tunnel system built along the banks of slow moving waterways with many exits above and below water level.
▪ A complex system can not die simply.
criminal
▪ Meanwhile, prison conditions have deteriorated and the public has lost confidence in the criminal justice system.
▪ It is difficult to dispute the fact that race does make a significant difference in the criminal justice system.
▪ Weare aware that he had failings and would have expected him to be dealt with and punished in the criminal justice system.
▪ Each was a serious impediment to an evenhanded and effective operation of the criminal justice system....
▪ The first was due process in procedure, and the general limitation of official discretion within the criminal justice system.
▪ The result is that the criminal justice system itself is now on trial.
▪ Any law which directly or indirectly discourages the publication of views from within the criminal justice system must be viewed with suspicion.
▪ They belong in the criminal justice system.
economic
▪ No one expects an economic system to produce absolute justice.
▪ As cities and their monetary systems organized further into city-states and then into nations, an economic system called mercantilism developed.
▪ In systems connected loosely, such as ecosystems, economic systems, and cultural systems, a less structured adaptation takes place.
▪ Thus a major function of the economic system is the production of food and shelter.
▪ They are the forces driving the economic system in new directions.
▪ The changes, therefore, add up to a different kind of economic system.
▪ The agreement also ensured that the skewed economic and social system would continue, as well as the neoliberal economic policies.
electoral
▪ Plurality electoral systems tend to produce two identifiable blocs while majority run-off elections tend to produce more fragmented support.
▪ This electoral college system must be scrapped.
▪ I can't believe that it will remain unrepresented if and when the electoral system becomes proportional.
▪ The Liberal Democrats see local government as an extension of their ideas about representation and democracy and changing the electoral system.
▪ Will a new electoral system eventually be put to the test of a referendum?
▪ We will continue to encourage a wide and well-informed public debate on the electoral system.
▪ Here I propose to confine my discussion to the contemporary debate surrounding the electoral system as an electoral system.
▪ The selection of candidates Under any electoral system nomination as a candidate can often be tantamount to a guarantee of eventual election.
expert
▪ What is certain is that expert systems increased the competitiveness of those companies who implemented them.
▪ One solution is to embed your neural network in an expert system.
▪ In other words, the expert system techniques had to integrate with existing conventional software.
▪ Users quickly surpassed the knowledge of the expert system.
▪ Advanced expert systems provide a means to significantly improve performance in each of these important areas.
▪ Personally, we would not consider delivering a neural network unless it was embedded in an expert system.
▪ The inexperienced technicians also employed a standard diagnostic approach as a result of using the expert system.
▪ These approaches produced successes, and the subfield of expert systems became commercially viable.
immune
▪ The body's first line of protection against environmental stimuli is effected through the defence or immune system.
▪ People with normal, healthy immune systems generally can fight off enterococcus without drugs, and might not even feel sick.
▪ All allergies are inappropriate responses by the body's immune system to a substance which is not normally harmful.
▪ She made me feel better by suggesting that allergies may be a sign of the strength of one's immune system.
▪ It may be that most of the time our immune system is able to control the development of abnormal cells.
▪ Qigong is said to improve the immune system and restore physical energy.
▪ For instance, one medication, derived from bitter almonds, claims to boost the immune system.
▪ Infections in the bloodstream, urinary tract or lungs usually are dangerous only to people with other illnesses and weakened immune systems.
legal
▪ They thought a redesigned legal system might constrain the civil service and protect their economic interests.
▪ But this bill would hurt families without truly improving our legal system.
▪ They have the political power, they establish and run the legal system.
▪ And we must maintain confidence in our legal system.
▪ Barriers arising from the disparities between national legal systems.
▪ Mr Menendez, from New Jersey, was on a six-day visit to examine the legal system.
▪ The legal systems that govern the buying and selling of property differ widely around the world.
nervous
▪ But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system.
▪ Schemata are not physical objects; they are viewed as processes within the nervous system.
▪ All these are degenerative diseases of the central nervous system.
▪ There is a natural physical tendency to avoid activities that our nervous system tells us are difficult.
▪ The basis of these unities does not seem to lie within the nervous system as it is currently conceived.
▪ Sometimes, however, it moves from there to the bloodstream and thus finds the nervous system, where it does damage.
▪ In particular, the capacity of central nervous system centres to influence liver function has not been evaluated.
new
▪ A new feature provides system administration from all Co-operation domains, whether local or remote, to facilitate large installation.
▪ The new Nintendo system uses a 64-bit processor, while the Saturn and Playstation are 32-bit systems.
▪ The new system would require infants to travel in seats equipped with a child-restraint system.
▪ All existing and new systems need to be documented.
▪ Rousseau introduced a new moral system, which was in essence a reiteration of ideas already set forth by Shaftesbury and Pope.
▪ The specifications were sent to seven suppliers who were invited to bid for the installation of a new system.
▪ The new rating system will be incorporated in television listings starting Jan. 1.
open
▪ The company has developed open systems for resellers and end users since its formation in 1986.
▪ Most people provide small items set out on an open plan system, which gives the children a great deal of choice.
▪ By comparison, social class, the system of stratification in capitalist industrial society, provides an example of an open system.
▪ Unicenter is an open systems equivalent to its current mainframe software for data centre management.
▪ As for open systems, Bonfield said that 85% of all the group's products now come under this category.
▪ This infusion rate was needed to maintain a constant baseline pressure within the open biliary system.
▪ In the post-GATT world of liberalised trade we must encourage our efficient producers to compete in a more open world trading system.
political
▪ Alternative Concepts of Accountability Public accountability is a essential component for the functioning of our political system.
▪ Can you characterize your own political belief system?
▪ Food also provides pleasure and social interaction; it dominates world economies and political systems.
▪ Its political system was not foisted upon it by an outside power like the Soviet Union.
▪ Such integration may be seen as reinforcing an allegiant rather than a neutral or alienated orientation to the political system.
▪ The parochial expects nothing from the political system.
▪ This is not to say that absolutely no general trends are discernible in the development of political systems.
▪ Hybrid Systems An increasing number of political systems attempts to blend desirable aspects of both the presidential and the cabinet systems.
public
▪ But what of the very idea of advertising in a public service system?
▪ But the proposals were rejected by Democratic legislators, who said the underfunded public school system would lose too much money.
▪ His own followers cheered him repeatedly as the rhetoric boomed out through the slight electronic distortion of the public address systems.
▪ Yes, there is a public address system, but I don't believe that is working either.
▪ Historically, countrywide health improvements have begun with the public health system.
▪ The de Young can not wait that long for a reluctant city to build an adequate public transportation system.
▪ The doors had come open and there was a voice on a public address system shouting something.
▪ Other user fees actually make public systems more progressive.
social
▪ Social divisions Finally, Tumin questions the view that social stratification functions to integrate the social system.
▪ Both are born into colonial societies ordered by traditional social systems of hierarchy and male domination and by strong, fundamentalist religion.
▪ Thus they will displace those firms that finance the social security systems, and will undermine established safety regulations.
▪ A survival-of-the-fittest social system, feudalism, that had lasted for hundreds of years was quickly replaced by capitalism.
▪ They conclude that differential rewards are functional for society, that they contribute to the maintenance and well-being of social systems.
▪ Local public administration clearly needs to be seen in the context of the broader political, social and economic system.
▪ Each state agreed to recognise and respect the other, including their respective political and social systems.
▪ In all institutions complex social systems flourished, based on close emotional, homosexual relationships.
solar
▪ A less-contrived example involves the relation between Kepler's theory of the solar system and Newton's.
▪ The supposed permanent subsolar point would be the hottest place in the solar system outside the Sun.
▪ Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change.
▪ All the heavy materials came from junk spinning somewhere around in the solar system.
▪ These are believed to come from beyond the Solar system, i.e. from interstellar space, the space between the stars.
▪ Not long ago I had read that each atom was a sort of solar system.
▪ Some astronomers have used these data to suggest that our solar system is unusual.
▪ Perspective 6: People make themselves at home throughout the solar system.
whole
▪ Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change.
▪ Freedom of political organization is more formal than real, and corruption is widespread throughout the whole political system.
▪ Frank was convinced of his arguments and fought bitterly with Tom, another academic, when he mocked the whole system.
▪ The whole system requires enormous amounts of energy.
▪ During your treatment you have had the security of the whole hospital system and the support of experts.
▪ The little one claimed that the whole color system smacked of an assembly-line mentality.
▪ In the last two decades a whole new system of checks and balances - the prostaglandin system - has been discovered.
▪ If the server were compromised, the integrity of the whole system would fail.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ They contain telephone numbers for classified computer systems.
▪ Neuroscience Network Projects: Scientists are increasingly turning to chemistry and biology to create new designs for neural network computer systems.
▪ The consultant had charged over £66,000 for his work and the computer system had cost in the region of £75,000.
▪ There also is concern that the same computer system that would help predict reliability through simulation could be used for design improvements.
▪ When a bar code is read, all that is fed into the computer system is the same number.
▪ The computer system is based on a really basic format of paper dolls.
▪ In Grampian difficulties with the GPass computer system delayed the development of fundholding, and these problems are still being overcome.
▪ Also, make sure that the provider works with customers to integrate their computer systems.
control
▪ The tilt problems so far have all been traced to the electric control systems.
▪ Subcontractor, Woodward Governor, also provided an interesting display with the Netcon 500 gas turbine monitoring and control system.
▪ The two companies reckon this combination will appeal to developers of process control systems using real-time monitoring.
▪ My one gripe is that at times the control system is not as good as expected.
▪ It should be remembered in designing a control system that the earthworm transport hosts present a continuous reservoir of infection.
▪ Each set-top decoder would then have its Macrovision-component circuitry individually addressed and activated through the network's addressable access control system.
▪ Look carefully at the inventory control system.
▪ At the forefront is a traction control system.
education
▪ Student power, Danny the Red, Tariq Ali, debates on the irrelevance of the education system.
▪ In fact, most of our higher education system is customer-driven, and it is widely considered the best in the world.
▪ The education system reflects the polarization of society.
▪ The group tries to find work for gang members and help them return to the education system.
▪ About 600,000 people leave the secondary education system every year.
▪ Political explanations Radical feminist and Marxist feminist interpretations of the education system have focused less on attitudes and more on power structures.
▪ If such integration were the aim, it would immediately have enormous resource implications in an already impoverished education system.
▪ The public education system, its declining educational and social standards.
information
▪ Also, supplied with the information system are guides to collating local information and to reordering waiting-room leaflets.
▪ He also graduated from Moorhead State University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in computer information systems.
▪ Nevertheless contracting does incur greater administrative costs in the form of new accounting and information systems and staff.
▪ They must understand finance and information systems, and be able to interpret data.
▪ So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
▪ They also provide services for the Internet, information systems, telecommunications and Web server use.
▪ Wellcome therefore adopted a different approach to meet this problem and developed a separate management information system using extracts from the address.
▪ How might information systems provide a nucleus for organizational and personal continuity?
justice
▪ We will never reform the justice system until we are prepared to acknowledge its fundamental defects.
▪ One could not maintain the criminal justice system otherwise.
▪ To them, the justice system is a mockery, another cleaver in the hands of Power.
▪ Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills said marathon trials let down the justice system.
▪ An inside look at the criminal justice system was the right kind of project, he thought.
▪ Maybe blacks will start getting equal treatment in the justice system.
▪ Only 0. 5 percent of their white counterparts were similarly under control of the criminal justice system, it said.
operating
▪ The symbolic resources are such things as exclusive rights to access parts of the database, operating system locks, and so on.
▪ This includes operating systems, compilers, system libraries etc.
▪ None of the operating systems has much mainstream business software to go with it.
▪ Its architecture is platform, operating system and compiler-independent and adaptable to multiple languages.
▪ SunSoft promises to unveil a comprehensive channel strategy for both versions of the operating system.
▪ Vendors running a supposedly standard Unix operating system until now provided different text input methods.
▪ The system is written in C and has input-output extensions to the OS-9 and OS-9000 operating systems.
school
▪ Perhaps the most obvious characteristic of the school system at the moment is how different schools can be.
▪ Moreover, many of our urban school systems are in crisis.
▪ In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
▪ But, in his place, the school system did not have the wisdom to send in anyone more qualified.
▪ Colleges could match the needs of the Catholic school system either in numbers or range of subjects.
▪ Also, parents should consider using the resources of the school system whenever possible.
▪ But its collapse had served to focus attention upon many of the tensions within the school system.
▪ But the proposals were rejected by Democratic legislators, who said the underfunded public school system would lose too much money.
security
▪ The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
▪ Our Social Security system has already attached a very long string to generations of children for support of their parents' generation.
▪ Rather than being rewarded by the social security system, that home owner suffered a disadvantage.
▪ The techniques he used to breach computer security systems remain available to others.
▪ Thus they will displace those firms that finance the social security systems, and will undermine established safety regulations.
▪ Nor is the present social security system in much better shape.
▪ On first returning to power in 1979 the Conservatives set out to make piecemeal adjustments to the social security system.
▪ The Social Security system is both part of the cause and part of the effect of what is happening to the family.
support
▪ The introduction of a new support system to encourage public access and conservation-friendly farming methods.
▪ Use these people as a support system.
▪ Membership of a group also offers an added social support system.
▪ School counselors can organize support systems both within and outside the school walls.
▪ Inquiry into pit collapse An inquiry has begun into the pit collapse with a focus on the roof support system.
▪ Children who are learning to read will tap into many support systems.
▪ Decision support systems, providing computer-based facilities for conducting analyses, simulations etc. 9.
▪ Proposed changes would phase out that support system, but guarantee farmers a gradually dwindling subsidy payment over the next seven years.
tax
▪ Table 7.2 shows very clearly what a proportionately high price the poor pay for their social services through the tax system.
▪ But this would have ruined the entire tax system.
▪ Corporation tax systems fall into different categories.
▪ Married women are treated as dependents by the income tax system, whatever their actual economic resources and social situation.
▪ The objective here is to introduce the fundamental characteristics of the tax system.
▪ Consider the three things that most governments now demand of their tax systems.
▪ A more efficient tax system would not discriminate between cash compensation and fringe benefits.
■ VERB
based
▪ The examination timetable itself is based on the slotting system and clashes are, therefore, minimized.
▪ Local government is based on the system of representative democracy: councillors are elected to make policy on behalf of the general population.
▪ This is based unashamedly on a system which will be familiar to students of Open University reading courses.
▪ Payment would be based on a pooled system: if everyone wanted the same coverage costs would be shared.
▪ We agree that there has to be a rules-#based system for governing global trade.
▪ Advances in medical technology and the breakthroughs in genetics make it easier for Britain to move towards an insurance-#based system.
develop
▪ Both Kemira and Hydro have been developing systems that turn the data into variable rate fertiliser application recommendations.
▪ Otherwise, the companies that develop software for its systems could stop doing so.
▪ It has no officer corps and has never developed a uniform central system of recruitment and management.
▪ Why was Britain so slow to develop a national system of education before 1914?
▪ They define their fundamental missions, then develop budget systems and rules that free their employees to pursue those missions.
▪ In order to do this a coding system was developed.
▪ There is a growing push in the banking and brokerage community to develop systems that support advanced services.
operate
▪ We also operate a loop system for the hard-of-hearing, details of which are available at the Box Office.
▪ Microsoft had made its name, and much of its revenues, from operating systems and computer languages.
▪ Tilne - some organisations operate on a shift system so the structure is based around a particular shift.
▪ The company had touted SoftRAM as a cheap solution to memory problems when using the RAM-hungry Windows 95 operating system.
▪ TeamLinks, which to date only operates on VAX/VME-based systems, comprises an X.400-based mail system and office automation software.
▪ The buildings would use the 34-degree water to operate their air-conditioning systems.
▪ Unfortunately, this is too complicated for the Z88's operating system.
▪ Windows 95 is not the most ironclad operating system.
use
▪ By using fixed mooring systems for boats.
▪ The alternative to trying to regulate and socialize the family is to use the market system to guide resources into the family.
▪ Some comparativists use both system designs.
▪ ReplayTV is more difficult to hack because it uses a proprietary operating system.
▪ The patients were staged using the Ann Arbor system.
▪ But nowadays, everyone uses an automated phone system for something.
▪ These are likely to include the department managers and possibly people who will use the system when it is implemented.
▪ Gane and Sarson suggest that the techniques can be used to specify the system design and help in the implementation process.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat the system
▪ Gomez tried to beat the system by moving his money between his bank and investment accounts.
▪ There's a limit on how much luggage you can take on a plane, but there are ways to beat the system.
▪ A special unit will be set up to stop crooks beating the system.
▪ Available as both saloon and fastback, the Rover 820 Si 16v is designed to beat the system on two counts.
▪ If we can not beat the system, how can we get it to work for us?
▪ Prosecutors have warned that broader use of lie detectors will only give criminals another way to beat the system.
▪ The brazen response of some was to smirk, for beating the system-any system-was a legitimate aspiration.
▪ Very few beat the system and those who did were not much encouraged by Bloomsbury House.
▪ You can't beat the system and shouldn't want to, because it represents a co-operative progress towards shared goals.
comprehensive education/system
▪ Among Labour voters only 8 % are against the principle of comprehensive education.
▪ I am extremely proud of the comprehensive education system.
▪ The comprehensive system itself remains subject to similar investigation.
▪ The example of comprehensive education is again interesting.
▪ The fourth school is situated on the edge of a large industrial city which operates a completely comprehensive system.
▪ The important issue for reformers was the creation of a national, comprehensive system offering guidance, placement, and after-care.
▪ The result will be a more coherent and comprehensive system by which to maintain standards in our awards.
▪ We will discuss here two different methods which have the advantage that they can be combined into a more comprehensive system.
early warning system/device etc
▪ Into this would be built an early warning system to keep the business on the right financial track.
▪ She wondered if she had developed an early warning system since the fiasco with Marcus.
▪ The antibody test is the best early warning device available.
▪ Their fortunes may thereby serve as an early warning system to humankind of previously unrecognized environmental problems.
▪ They have an early warning system.
▪ This knowledge also improves early warning systems for the events.
▪ Timely recognition of emerging infections requires early warning systems to detect new infectious diseases before they become public health crises.
▪ Use was made of facilities for communications, intelligence gathering, and early warning systems.
game the system
▪ Linder accused insurance companies of gaming the system to increase profits.
▪ Yet since even the best laws leave loopholes, unsavory characters find ways to game the system.
play the system
▪ Accountants know how to play the tax system.
the binary system
▪ How far is the binary system binary in terms of curricula as well as organization?
▪ That is the part which deals with the ending of the binary system in higher education.
the metric system
the solar system
work the system
▪ Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system.
▪ It is better if this problem can be avoided by having the operators work the system properly.
▪ Many say privately that for whatever reason, too many black parents fail to work the system.
▪ They are all working the system.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a car alarm system
▪ a democratic system of government
▪ Florida's public school system
▪ I do the cooking and Andrew does the shopping; it's an excellent system.
▪ I work a lot more quickly now I've developed an efficient system of working.
▪ Most teachers are opposed to recent changes in the education system.
▪ Our communications software tends to crash the system.
▪ Ryan thinks he's discovered a system for winning at roulette.
▪ the U.S. legal system
▪ They are introducing a system for dealing with enquiries from customers.
▪ We're going to have to make some changes - this system just doesn't work.
▪ What we need is a cheap and reliable system of public transportation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But 60 percent of all Audis sold in this country are sold with that system.
▪ If the system could not or would not forbid such questions, its survival depended on their being rendered incomprehensible.
▪ It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.
▪ Its special factors should be recognised and it should have a regional banding system more reflective of its house prices.
▪ The system begins with almost no co-payments except $ 5 for each prescription.
▪ They have quoted for linking the projector to our existing system.
▪ This could not be happening if the brain and immune system were separate entities.