Example sentences of "the standard [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But when asked whether those strides had been adequate , Mr Heseltine says : ‘ We have not set our sights on achieving the standards of the world 's best . |
| 3 | He submitted that it was quite clear that the FPC reached a considered decision as what it found to be the proper level of use of the deputising service consistently with maintaining the doctor 's primary responsibility and as regards the need to maintain the standards of the deputising service efficiently and consistently with that obligation . |
| 4 | So , it 's okay by the standards of the rest of the range , but what about when faced with the real world ? |
| 5 | The Trust is facing a £30,000 debt following higher expenditure keeping Coke Hole up to the standards of the new Residential Homes Act . |
| 6 | This followed a meeting on Tuesday between editors and representatives of national newspapers , which reached broad agreement on the measures they should take to meet public and parliamentary criticism of the standards of the press . |
| 7 | The sexual behaviour referred to turned out to be sexual misbehaviour by the standards of the time and on a widespread scale . |
| 8 | Recession Japanese-style means economic growth of two to three per cent , a respectable rate by the standards of the US and Western Europe . |
| 9 | By the standards of the Kind , their sole meeting had been almost yesterday . |
| 10 | By the standards of the time , therefore , he was probably a generous employer . |
| 11 | It is about self appointed ‘ policing ’ of the world , restoring ‘ stability ’ and ‘ order ’ according to the standards of the US , Britain and other major political and military imperialist powers . |
| 12 | The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team . |
| 13 | They come together regularly to discuss standards of recruitment and recruits in the area , as well as the standards of the management committee members who are involved with them in the interviewing process . |
| 14 | Viewed from the standards of the outside world , the main trends in human life are perhaps shown up rather more clearly here : selfishness , courage , the desire for escape , self-fulfilment etc ’ but then once you 're here you do n't think about the standards of the outside world very much . ’ |
| 15 | Viewed from the standards of the outside world , the main trends in human life are perhaps shown up rather more clearly here : selfishness , courage , the desire for escape , self-fulfilment etc ’ but then once you 're here you do n't think about the standards of the outside world very much . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the discipline that backed up that solitary duty was — even by the standards of the 1920s — extraordinarily harsh and pervasive . |
| 18 | Now , the means whereby the standards of the higher courses , devised by the new polytechnics , could be validated and monitored were also at hand , with the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , granted its Royal Charter in 1964 , and charged with ensuring that the courses approved by it were of a standard at least equivalent to similar courses in the universities . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At £100 per annum ( multiply by 40 for today 's value ) he was , by the standards of the time , very well off . |
| 21 | Matthew McIllvanney , even by the standards of the expatriate retired Americans who lived all around him , was a rich man . |
| 22 | An informal survey of guests in residence reveals that the standards of the cooking and service are admitted to be high , but that the menu is thought to be unimaginative , the wine list extensive but inappropriate , and the hours inflexible . |
| 23 | Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson . |
| 24 | The standards of the Royal Chaplain were not those of the Court . |
| 25 | By the standards of the Dubrovlag she had a nice home , a two-bedroomed bungalow on the outer edge of the village . |
| 26 | The contract was worth £1.31 million , and that was good money by the standards of the business owned and run by Justin Pink . |
| 27 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 28 | Sugar said that the PDA was certainly not a blockbuster by the standards of the early personal computer market when the company could make a clear £300 on each machine sold : he put the total size of the UK electronic organiser market at around 200,000 units . |
| 29 | Would a local weekly , for example , launch an attack on the estate agency business or the standards of the second-hand car trade ? |
| 30 | By the standards of the West 's most sophisticated citizens , the life-style , the table manners , the long robes and flowing beards of Moscow 's élite still seemed antiquated . |