Example sentences of "[noun] set [art] [adj] standard " in BNC.

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1 Stanyer sets a high standard , but the response from practitioners was scarcely more enthusiastic .
2 If one of them is aware that she is providing an example for the others , she will have an additional incentive to set a high standard .
3 Theories of normative income redistribution set a desirable standard or target , whereas the more positive theories are an attempt to predict something about the nature of redistribution in the empirical world which may or may not be consistent with one or more or any of the views of desirability .
4 The Securities and Investments Board 's Conduct of Business Rules sets a lower standard and allow agents to keep commission , though they are required to disclose the fact that it has been received .
5 Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer .
6 Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ?
7 Under pressure from the American government , the three rival consortia developing four systems to set the technical standard for high-definition television provisionally agreed to combine those systems .
8 Professor Williams believes that the decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Morgan sets the correct standard of knowledge .
9 But , people , both like the Royal Family , do be er , veterans of debauchery , and at the same time setting the highest standards .
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