Example sentences of "standard [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A number of American cases ruled that reassignment need not be made where the disabled employee had insufficient seniority under local union agreements or where collective bargaining had established job-related standards for the reassigned position which the disabled employee could not meet . |
| 2 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 3 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 4 | In Scotland , the local authorities ' auditors duties are contained in the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1983 All auditors of local authority accounts for periods commencing after 31 March 1983 are expected to observe the Standards for the External Audit of Scottish Local Authorities published by the Accounts Commission ( a similar body to the Audit Commission for England and Wales ) . |
| 5 | Attempts to improve auditing standards for the financial services sector |
| 6 | When wider bandwidth networking became available , the ability to move graphical information quickly around a network brought the cental multi user processor concept into the wimps era , and this has required clearly defined standards for the Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) . |
| 7 | The 1986 Standards for the public library service in Scotland are slightly more generous , recommending that the ‘ annual addition to adult lending stock of books and audio-visual materials should be 280 items per 1,000 population ’ . |
| 8 | British Rail 's standards for the maximum speed that trains could round bends were based on tests done on a branch line in North Wales with a tank engine in 1949 . |
| 9 | From the mill and sliphouse , through to the decorating department , experts in their own field of work have worked with others from different companies to establish the craft standards for the ceramic industry . |
| 10 | The gulf is in standards between the amateur game and the Tour can be a shock for a new pro , says Willison . |
| 11 | The standards of the middle-class life would never be for such as these , but pauperism was always near . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The Trust is facing a £30,000 debt following higher expenditure keeping Coke Hole up to the standards of the new Residential Homes Act . |
| 15 | There was a knock on the door , and an elderly woman — at least , elderly by the standards of the other women in the office , though she was probably not much over fifty — came in with a letter . |
| 16 | However , closer examination of how these deprivations were experienced within care-giving households suggests that it was often carers who bore the brunt of them , while trying to protect the living standards of the disabled or elderly person : |
| 17 | Even by the modest standards of the Supreme Court , American obscenity law has had little measurable effect since 1973 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Draper mission advocated a far higher level of industrial growth even to attain the living standards of the early 1930s . |
| 20 | In all the exchanges of information during the design stage , frequent reference should be made to the objectives set for the project and the standards of the various components . |
| 21 | The number of states actively involved in international relations was very small by the standards of the present day and the relationships between them relatively clear-cut . |
| 22 | While some of the gains to the economy were eroded after 1750 with the return of population pressure once again testing the ability of the economy to provide essentials , critically there was no overwhelming erosion of the living standards of the general population . |
| 23 | They focus action on raising the educational standards of the future workforce , and on giving all young people more incentive to attend school , work harder and achieve more . |
| 24 | And because these services play a more important part in the lives of people on low than on higher incomes , the move is likely to reduce still further the relative living standards of the poor , and particularly the most vulnerable in the underclass . |
| 25 | Increasing the cost of bricks , timber and glass did not do much to lift the housing standards of the poor . |
| 26 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 27 | Over the post decade , tax welfare has played an increasingly important part in boosting the living standards of the rich , while welfare cuts have reduced the income of those at the bottom of the pile . |
| 28 | By that time the living standards of the middling sort of English countrymen had improved significantly . |
| 29 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
| 30 | Most of the evidence about whether industrialism raised or diminished the living standards of the working class has centred on the wages and prices prevalent at different periods , data which is patchy and hard to interpret . |