Example sentences of "[verb] [art] standard [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 UK court cases have recently raised the question of whether the principle of " retrospective liability " for past pollution that met the standards of the day will be widely applied .
2 They actually pay a much as any other human being does , given the standard of the property .
3 There was no real Academic plan and there were no grounds for confidence that the resource levels necessary to support the standards of the courses leading to the Council 's awards would be maintained .
4 Coloured strips are often used to indicate VIP 's or groups , and in some cases colours are used to indicate the standard of the rooms and rates , e.g. standard rate of discounted rates .
5 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 ) .
6 That shows the standard of the management that we are being asked to endorse if we pass the Bill .
7 Chairman , could I just mention to the Committee , on Shropshire child care links , erm , the County Council of course , is also the registration body that erm , registers childminders and day care , and erm , while obviously this is very much to be supported and ties in with Social Services ' own requirements to promote child care , it should not be seen , and we should perhaps , Bruce make a , we can have discussions with , we should be careful to endorse , the giving of this money does n't necessarily imply or endorse the standards of the people on their books , who may be people that the County Council in another arm , are investigating and in some cases , taking action to close down .
8 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 .
9 If you 've actually got a standard for the key tasks , you can actually measure the what we call the performance gap and it becomes much more logical .
10 However the original Codasyl proposals were considered by many to have a ‘ physical schema flavour ’ as well as presenting a standard for the logical schema .
11 So long as HMI monitor and control the standards of the inspections , the changes proposed will bring many positive benefits .
12 well I , I wanted therefore to put take project into the national press and to promote the product , given that that was the larger product in the market place and therefore if you want that would set the standards for the rest of the market place , that 's what I , I felt we needed to do that with the increasing number of competitors moving into market place
13 The responsible manager must ensure that his company is greener than green on all the major issues according to current opinion , demonstrate to the world at large that this is so , and , for the future , to help form opinions and set the standards for the company 's own as well as the common good .
14 The DBTG report did not suggest a standard for the Device and Media Control Language ( DMCL ) , that is the language controlling the physical access to storage devices , because this would be dependent on the particular hardware used .
15 Although Tivoli has the open systems distributed management market pretty much to itself , Moss knows that the providing a standard to the industry can not generate a revenue stream much further into the future .
16 The Poles did not look much of a side at all when they lost 3-0 at Wembley in June and , although they have improved since under new management , there is nothing in their results to suggest that they have recovered the standard of the team that put Sir Alf Ramsey 's England out of the World Cup in 1973 .
17 HAVING SET the standard with the Donald Byrd , ‘ Blue Break Beats ’ and ‘ Blues ‘ N ’ Soul ’ compilations , Blue Note continues the modern(ist) repackaging drive : Art Blakey , Jimmy Smith and more Byrd gems hit CD .
18 The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor .
19 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 .
20 Casting and smithing in Nigeria reached a standard from the 10th century onwards that has been compared to the art of Benvenuto Cellini .
21 MPEG-2 sets the standard for the compression of digital signals , the most complicated and expensive element of any digital broadcasting system .
22 ‘ We had a similar set-up some years ago and if it were reintroduced I think the standard of the women 's game would rise ’ .
23 Manager Frank Gray said : ‘ I think the standard of the Third Division is higher than a lot of people expected .
24 Industrial tribunals as we heard yesterday from Ian have decided they were wrongly dismissed and that indicates the standard of the union locally but poses the question of why it was impossible for our officials , from the General Secretary downwards , to effect any influence whatsoever on the attitude of Liverpool City Council .
25 By the urbanity of his almost patrician deportment , Coleman tended greatly to raise the standard of the profession in public esteem , and he powerfully contributed to obtain for veterinarians the grade of commissioned officers in the army .
26 A clear link existed between the attempt to raise the standards of the least privileged and that most thorny of all American issues , race .
27 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 .
28 It is not surprising to find that the widespread species have been used extensively to correlate rocks between different continents — they form the standard for the Silurian period , where the graptolite faunas are nearly the same all over the world .
29 J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) .
30 The leaflet , Raising the Standard for the Built Heritage , is part of the Government 's Citizen 's Charter initiative .
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