Example sentences of "standard of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered . |
| 2 | An offshoot of the ABCTG — the National Working Party on Secretarial Standards ( NWPSS ) has recently published the national standards of performance expected of competent secretarial and administrative staff at : |
| 3 | To standards of conduct attained in other countries , metropolitan standards , or to something on the island ? |
| 4 | In these areas there are standards of achievement specified for all age levels and pupils who fail to achieve these may be given remedial help . |
| 5 | The Single European Market , the demographic trough and the need to train and retrain the UK workforce to the higher standards of competence attained in many other countries are only three examples . |
| 6 | Last September , Which ? published the results of an inspection of standards of garage servicing at 30 garages , including 12 members of the RMI and the Scottish Motor Trade Association ( which also has an OFT-approved Code of Conduct ) . |
| 7 | We will improve standards of food labelling in close consultation with consumer representatives . |
| 8 | The general safety requirement is encapsulated in s10(2) which provides : ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section consumer goods fail to comply with the general safety requirement if they are nor reasonably safe having regard to all the circumstances , including ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the goods are being or would be marketed , the get-up of the goods , the use of any mark in relation to the goods and any instructions or warnings which are given or would be given with respect to the keeping , use or consumption of the goods ; ( b ) any standards of safety published by any person either for goods of a description which applies to the goods in question or for matters relating to goods of that description ; and ( c ) the existence of any means by which it would have been reasonable ( taking into account the cost , likelihood and extent of any improvement ) for the goods to have been made safer . |
| 9 | The idea that there is a strong parallel to be drawn between judicial review in administrative law and company law is further strengthened by the similarities between the standards of review used in these two fields . |
| 10 | First , they fall short of the standard of clarity required of criminal legislation . |
| 11 | There is a lower standard of proof required in civil cases , balance of probability , as opposed to the ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ needed in criminal trials and Lord Prosser commented : ‘ It is undesirable in the public interest , as well as in Mr Anderson 's interest , that a finding of probable murder be made in anything other than a supreme court . ’ |
| 12 | A report by the Audit Commission says supplies director Chris Watney had a ‘ cavalier disregard for the standard of conduct expected from public officers ’ . |
| 13 | The double standard of morality relied upon this separation between the public and the private . |
| 14 | This is a much lower level of use than either Edinburgh or Glasgow , but in view of the standard of service observed on this occasion , it is impossible to say whether this usage figure represents lower demand , or merely laxity in control . |
| 15 | If the standard of service observed on this occasion is general , it may be that this reflects the low priority given to library expenditure in this university . |
| 16 | More than a million expatriate Britons now live in South Africa , taking advantage of the higher standard of living caused by excellent exchange rates . |
| 17 | In many households the modern standard of living depends on married women finding jobs , often in service occupations , on a scale much greater than in the previous generation . |
| 18 | We are a country of very poor natural resources and our standard of living depends upon high imports — it should n't but it does . |
| 19 | After Luxembourg , Denmark currently has the highest standard of living measured by gross domestic product per head . |
| 20 | As the Ruddock case has shown , the standard of review employed in national security cases is set so high that it is possible that the Tribunal could be compelled to refrain from interfering with discretionary decisions taken for this reason . |
| 21 | Once the standard of comparison shifts to international performance , then the system 's obstacles are telling . |
| 22 | This dual negative combination may indicate a lower standard of research conducted in these departments . |
| 23 | The highly professional standard of firemanship demonstrated by all personnel at this incident contributed to the successful rescue of three persons . ’ |