Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] standard [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
2 | Even accounting for the generally lower standard of software then , I reckon the reviewers were feeling generous . |
3 | AH3 : Rooms with private bath or shower and w.c. in better two or three star hotels in residential and fashionable areas with generally better standard of decor and furniture than AH1/2 grade . |
4 | Rooms with private bath or shower and w.c. in better two or three star hotels in residential and fashionable areas with generally better standard of decor and furniture than AH1/2 grade . |
5 | Practically on arrival I was caught up with what was a slightly better standard of rugger and tennis , No 4 Flying Training School ( FTS ) . |
6 | They often receive a far lower standard of care than patients in this country . |
7 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
8 | As can be seen from the explanation of the practicalities of the Optional Procedure , it does require a far higher standard of preparation before proceedings are raised . |
9 | People that had once been poor , often virtually on the breadline , were now much more elegantly dressed and had achieved a far higher standard of living . |
10 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
11 | This was chiefly because they could foresee benefits to their own company in using recorders capable of recording many more parameters to a significantly higher standard of accuracy . |