Example sentences of "[noun sg] standard [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Collum felt that implementation of international standards in the future would fall more and more to the Accounting Standards Board , although ideally he felt leadership should come from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and , ‘ if it can ever get its act together ’ , the European Commission . |
| 2 | A further measure to improve living standards came with the decision to reduce customs duties on imported essential goods with effect from Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 3 | On the other hand , uprating many benefits in line with prices rather than earnings means that recipients have not shared as fully as others in the higher living standards achieved in the 1980s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For most people living standards rose in the later nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Battle standards hung above the fireplace . |
| 7 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 8 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 9 | Formal consent standards attaching to a discharge may also be a criterion for action in a persistent pollution . |
| 10 | The toys are painted in International 's Japlac , a fast-drying high gloss paint that complies with the stringent safety standard demanded in the toy industry . |
| 11 | Alloys of gold and silver with baser metals have long been controlled by established standards , first for coinage and then for plate , such as the English sterling standard guaranteed by a hallmark . |
| 12 | Closer to home we have to decide whether , for example , to recognise that an increase in food prices imposed as a result of welfare standards demanded by the middle classes would be rather like the poll tax . |
| 13 | The quality standards refer to the maintenance of central records of experts which must comply with the data protection laws . |
| 14 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 15 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 16 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |
| 17 | Emission standards come in a variety of forms , such as the maximum concentration of a substance in a given volume of gaseous effluent or the maximum opacity of a smoke plume . |
| 18 | Apart from one another in Switzerland ( c/n 208 ) , it is the only cargo jet of its kind in the world , and is designed to operate at or below the noise emission standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 19 | Small hospitals incinerators do not have to comply with the latest emission standards set by the Department of Environment until 1996 . |
| 20 | The Board sets a quality standard known as the Ware Standard which is the farmer 's guarantee to the consumer . |
| 21 | News that the US Federal Communications Commission 's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service , is now to review a single digital high definition television standard proposed by a a Grand Alliance of all four contending consortia is raising hopes that by mid-decade , all the key technologies and infrastructures will be in place for a full-scale merging of television and computer technology . |
| 22 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 23 | '70s tartan army standard re-released in the wake of its use in the current Boots 17 TV commercial |
| 24 | Protection of air quality in pristine areas is also achieved through the use of visibility standards introduced by the EPA in 1984 for 33 states and one territory ( the Virgin Islands ) in which national parks and wilderness areas are deemed to need visibility protection as mandated by the 1977 Clean Air Amendments . |
| 25 | These are the recommended minimum space and heating standards proposed by the Parker Morris Committee in 1961 , which were required to be incorporated in public housing design from January 1969 — yet another gain made in the early 1960s to be whittled away under the current government . |
| 26 | It will work initially from a base of existing systems and CAD/CAM standards established by the former Soviet Union which were exported to the republics and East European satellites . |
| 27 | It will work initially from a base of existing systems and CAD/CAM standards established by the former Soviet Union which were exported to the republics and East European satellites . |
| 28 | It states that a 100-cow herd with an average health standard calls in the veterinary surgeon 140 times a year . |
| 29 | The 1834 breed standards set by the Royal Jersey Agricultural Society and drawn up by distinguished island breeders showed parti-coloured engravings of the breed but made no reference to the colour of the coat as no importance was attached to such a superficial factor ; however , the light-coloured muzzle ring was specified , and a deep orange colour within the ears , while the skin was of a ‘ good ’ colour . |
| 30 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |