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

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1 In the United Kingdom this is the Employment Department , with John Fuller of the Qualifications and Standards Branch as Coordinator .
2 A combination of higher taxation and more rigorous academic standards led to a dearth of first-class amateurs .
3 Formal consent standards attaching to a discharge may also be a criterion for action in a persistent pollution .
4 A new Technical Conservation , Research and Education group has been created to co-ordinate research and conservation skills developments , and ensure that our practical conservation standards remain at a high level .
5 The new system is designed to high quality standards to appeal to large corporations and blue chip companies such as banks and building societies .
6 Thus it is of considerable interest to ascertain if English law mandated this result and , if it did , whether , yet again , our legal practices fall below the minimum standards prescribed by the European Convention .
7 In a new charter for cleaner buses , Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) urges that bus companies should be given financial incentives to fit new engines to comply with EC emission standards expected to be introduced in 1995 .
8 There is a much greater homogeneity and community of interest and value systems about the Western European states which are parties to the convention than is the case with the world community generally ; it is possible to prescribe with much greater precision and consistency the standards sought to be attained and , once attained , their observance is rendered much more likely , even without special enforcement procedures , by the social and economic interdependence and intercourse with prevails in Western European society as compared with the larger world community .
9 Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) .
10 What is unfair can not sensibly be subject to different standards depending on the source of the discretion to exclude it .
11 I seemed to hear trumpets and see colourful flags and standards fluttering in the sea breeze .
12 She had first seen it on one of the standards fluttering in the throne room .
13 Standards tend to be set by comparison with what is consistently achievable under the circumstances .
14 Italian standards tend to be slightly more old fashioned and individual and therefore higher than many new resorts .
15 Paar Scientific has launched a liquid density standards service for density meter users .
16 The tests offer for pushchairs and baby buggies comes from Cheshire 's trading standards service as part of National Consumer Week .
17 The works comprises an old works designed to Royal Commission standards completed in 1965 , being the first activated sludge plant in West Lothian and a new works with similar process completed in 1975 .
18 Each sector is made up of 6 specialist units plus 3 units based on standards developed for the NQV Level 2 Business Administration award .
19 Standards developed by the Languages Lead Body will be incorporated into National Certificate Modules , which will continue to be offered at five levels of difficulty .
20 These awards , which can be achieved through either a workplace or a National Certificate route , are based on the standards developed by the Administration Lead Body .
21 The maritime safety committee of the International Maritime Organisation has agreed that the higher standards referred to by the hon. Gentleman should be phased in , starting in October 1994 .
22 But the vast increase in the Nazi vote came primarily from the impoverished middle classes who had seen their savings and living standards smashed in the wake of the Versailles Treaty and the Depression .
23 For most people living standards rose in the later nineteenth century .
24 The main outstanding problem with the design is that energy consumption levels are too high to meet energy efficiency standards applying in Germany , the United States and other countries .
25 It can not be stressed too often that it is essential to only install commercially designed and built microwaves which conform to the international safety and performance standards appropriate for industrial use .
26 But we can separate the two issues , reserving the question of individual responsibility as one to be taken up only after we have decided whether the group as a whole has met the standards appropriate for it .
27 Will my right hon. and learned Friend agree to visit Basildon this year to observe the excellent education standards enjoyed by my constituents ?
28 There had been a revolt in Alexandria and the Caliph 's army , Mowbray 's group amongst them , had massed outside the city : the air thick with the beat of their kettledrums , the wind snapping at the huge green banners , and the silver crescents on the standards dazzling in the scorching sunlight .
29 According to MacDonald ( 1978 ) the standards debate in England was as much stimulated by an idealised ‘ distillation from the past ’ as any so called ‘ objective ’ measures .
30 Additional standards relating to disinfection may apply to high risk areas .
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