Example sentences of "standards [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed . |
| 2 | The local EHO was satisfied with our standards during his last visit and our maintenance manager is our health and officer so he also keeps an eye on things . ’ |
| 3 | RENEWED pressure has been placed on the Government to lengthen the summer season by bringing Britain up to European standards for public holidays . |
| 4 | It is the development of ‘ clear and practical standards for forest management ’ that will be the first aim of the new Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) . |
| 5 | The Committee recommends that the NHS Management Executive should ensure that all English Regional Health Authorities set broad standards for waiting times for such appointments , and that the Management Executive should require District Health Authorities and Family Health Services Authorities to take urgent action to reduce waiting times for first appointments . |
| 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 | Raise the kids , raise the money : Ann Roberts finds US schools have demanding standards for parents |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Scottish athletes and officials yesterday angrily rejected as ‘ useless ’ an offer by the Scottish Commonwealth Games Council to extend the time limit to achieve the qualifying standards for New Zealand . |
| 9 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
| 10 | The setting of particularly high standards for uniformity and internal consistency makes it impossible to speak of the existence of almost any ‘ ism ’ in policy . |
| 11 | • Friends of the Earth has slated new European standards for the control of diesel vehicle emissions as ‘ too weak ’ . |
| 12 | BRITAIN can not reach European standards for safe bathing beaches because of salmonella in the water , the Government 's pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority , said yesterday . |
| 13 | The Anglo-French Intergovernmental Commission , which sets safety and security standards for the project , announced the decision after receiving advice from the Tunnel Safety Authority . |
| 14 | It is a virtual certainty that the developed world will have to set standards for itself , probably through commitments within the ECE or OECD framework , before attempting the infinitely difficult problem of persuading the South to join it in global agreements . |
| 15 | IN 1988 regulators from the dozen richest countries devised a new set of capital standards for commercial banks . |
| 16 | These imperfections make it all the more important for regulators to enforce the BIS minimums and set higher standards for riskier banks . |
| 17 | The conference recommended increasing the chances of a second appeal as well as toughening the standards for legal representation ( there are reports of cases where people sentenced to death had been represented by law students ) . |
| 18 | This time round , how patiently will touchy Poles put up with working to German standards for German bosses in German-owned firms ? |
| 19 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 20 | If one country 's chemical companies face tough standards for water discharges , that is no reason to penalise imports of chemicals from other countries that impose weaker standards . |
| 21 | The idea of having different standards for males and females has not been elaborated by the English courts . |
| 22 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 23 | All major denominations strove to raise standards for lay preachers ; methods chosen included free circulating libraries and denominational courses and examinations . |
| 24 | The minimum international standards for dolphinariums insist on the mammals having a pool at least 10 metres deep , 30 metres wide and 150 metres long . |
| 25 | All too often his own officials negotiate for lower European standards for fear of any possible impact on UK firms . |
| 26 | Over the past few months , for instance , our Government has single-handedly ensured that the new directive on efficiency standards for boilers ended up far weaker than initially proposed by the commission . |
| 27 | Further , the universities were the acknowledged custodians of academic standards for Tutorial Classes as well as for other courses of broad intellectual and cultural interest . |
| 28 | Together with the Reichsjugendgerichtsgesetz ( RJGG , Juvenile Court Act ) of 1923 it tended to replace punitive measures with pedagogical , child-oriented principles and to set standards for national youth departments in every part of the country ( Sachsse and Tennstedt , 1988 , p. 99 ) . |
| 29 | For example , we were impressed by the work of national statutory bodies in Britain ( the Local Government Training Board , the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work and the Care Sector Consortium of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) in developing and promulgating models and standards for paraprofessional training . |
| 30 | Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward , although they are beginning to be developed . |