Example sentences of "by [art] standards [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the standards of the Kind , their sole meeting had been almost yesterday . |
| 2 | At Spring Gardens , it was geographically the nearest to the site of all the successful competitors , and by the standards of the day , it was a large organization . |
| 3 | If some media products can have effects which are subtle , persuasive and demonstratively antisocial , not by the standards of the day or the ruling party , but by the ethical standards which define civilisation , then no society can ignore the matter . |
| 4 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 5 | Such building , multiplied many times over , provided France with a network of fortified towns ( some of them very large by the standards of the day ) , impressive traces of which can still be seen today . |
| 6 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 7 | Her clever father was dead , leaving her a small fortune by the standards of the day . |
| 8 | Despite the jokes about it , the Bishop 's Castle Railway served the town and the district well for seventy years at a time when transport ( rapid by the standards of the day ) was becoming ever more important . |
| 9 | By the standards of the Dubrovlag she had a nice home , a two-bedroomed bungalow on the outer edge of the village . |
| 10 | Matthew McIllvanney , even by the standards of the expatriate retired Americans who lived all around him , was a rich man . |
| 11 | So , it 's okay by the standards of the rest of the range , but what about when faced with the real world ? |
| 12 | The thread which runs through these sorry tales is that they are all examples of irrational over-reaction by a government which is , by the standards of the region , honest , able and secure . |
| 13 | The origin of life on a planet can be a very improbable event indeed by our everyday standards , or indeed by the standards of the chemistry laboratory , and still be sufficiently probable to have occurred , not just once but many times , all over the universe . |
| 14 | The sexual behaviour referred to turned out to be sexual misbehaviour by the standards of the time and on a widespread scale . |
| 15 | By the standards of the time , therefore , he was probably a generous employer . |
| 16 | At £100 per annum ( multiply by 40 for today 's value ) he was , by the standards of the time , very well off . |
| 17 | Leicester was no Paradise Restored : its flat site led to difficult drainage problems and mortality was high even by the standards of the time , but there was nothing remotely resembling the horrors of Nottingham . |
| 18 | His speech , ‘ The friendship of the peoples of the USSR — a priceless asset ’ , was wholly conventional , even by the standards of the time . |
| 19 | The power output was indeed high by the standards of the time — 400 watts . |
| 20 | However , many townsmen were reasonably well-off by the standards of the time and were able to rebuild their modest dwellings . |
| 21 | The contract was worth £1.31 million , and that was good money by the standards of the business owned and run by Justin Pink . |