Example sentences of "standards [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall trend in peasant living standards during the period is hotly disputed . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | • Friends of the Earth has slated new European standards for the control of diesel vehicle emissions as ‘ too weak ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 6 | The NRA will introduce legally binding water quality standards for the first time for all types of water under its control ( rivers , canals and estuaries ) . |
| 7 | We will press for higher EC standards for the keeping of battery hens and for the care of animals in transit . |
| 8 | If a government wants to impose standards for the efficiency of new buildings , then it must also ensure that the materials are available , and that people are trained to use them . |
| 9 | Given the implications for all professionals of product liability , quality matters more than ever before — and that is why standards for the industry are important . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Cleaning standards for the kitchen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THIS MONTH the government will publish both a policy White Paper and a draft of technical standards for the cabling of Britain in the next two or three years . |
| 14 | His name was G Clifford Trout Jnr and his self-appointed task took the form of a crusade for animal and human welfare , by imposing morally acceptable standards for the nation 's livestock . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Attempts to improve auditing standards for the financial services sector |
| 18 | Melvyn Bragg 's wife Cate Haste , who wrote an essay on sexual standards for the report , said : ‘ I do n't think the watershed should be made later . |
| 19 | Safeguards on Detention : The Government should acknowledge that , in keeping with international standards for the protection of refugees , the detention of asylum applicants should be avoided . |
| 20 | Task groups are formulating standards for the areas of multiprocessor technologies , compliance technologies and native language system localisation . |
| 21 | The committee charged with looking into the habits of the EBRD , which last year spent more on itself than on helping ex-communist countries , has set strict standards for the inquiry . |
| 22 | Neither increased living standards for the majority nor the despair of mass unemployment in the depressed areas proved conducive to the growth of fascism in Britain . |
| 23 | Windows NT has yet to be endorsed in SIP because Microsoft Corp refuses to back open systems standards for the oil industry , Haynes says . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The UK is currently one of the two Member States with the highest hygiene standards for the production of milk and milk products . |
| 26 | It lays down standards for the media programme within the school , in terms of the provision of skilled personnel and plentiful materials in appropriate surrounds ; it specifies in some detail the media programme for the " school district " ( the American equivalent of the local education authority ) in similar terms of personnel , materials and distribution . |
| 27 | Finally , technical developments in TV broadcasting and receiving equipment mean that it is rapidly becoming inevitable that , for a time at least , most TV stations will be broadcasting in two formats , to take account of the new so-called high density TV ( HDTV ) — always assuming that standards for the system can be agreed . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | But it also fulfils a wider social purpose in setting standards for the markets and in discouraging aberrant behaviour . |
| 30 | Together , they have criticised slipshod , ineffective and oppressive rehabilitation methods , and called for higher standards for the education of young people with disabilities . |