Example sentences of "standard of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was associated with André L. Simon in the foundation of the Saintsbury Club in 1931 and , two years later , with that of the Wine and Food Society , the aim of which was ‘ to raise standards of cooking throughout the country and to provide practical demonstrations of the arts of the table ’ . |
| 2 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |
| 3 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 4 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
| 5 | Such investigations indicate clearly and forcefully that poverty is still very much with us , and that any complacency about rising standards of living in the post-war period inevitably banishing poverty must be quickly dismissed . |
| 6 | Under this heading the commitment to reduce disparities between the standards of living in the various countries and regions of the Community was given greater emphasis . |
| 7 | In higher education , we naturally believe that a fundamental aspect of the student 's programme of studies consists of getting the student on the inside of just such internal standards of reasoning in the discipline he or she is studying . |
| 8 | Almost immediately , a flourishing black-market in foodstuffs sprang up which allowed those with money , influence or access to scarce goods to have a slightly better standard of living at the expense of those with none of these commodities . |
| 9 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 10 | In fact , he would like more people to enjoy his level of popularity : ‘ If this is a cult of personality , then I should like all the poorly developed countries to enjoy such personalities capable of ensuring a rising standard of living for the people . ’ |
| 11 | As a result of the introduction of machines and the growth of markets , relatively unrestricted by government , the standard of living for the average British person — judged in terms of food , clothing , shelter , health , life expectancy , infant mortality , education and material possessions — increased on an unprecedented scale over these years . |
| 12 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 13 | A strategical handicap of increased dependence on imported food and the incalculable cultural loss involved in commitment to an overwhelmingly industrial society were other results to be set against a higher standard of living for the majority . |
| 14 | He could have boasted to world leaders of the model communist state he and his comrades have created , now widely recognised in the world , with happy contented people enjoying the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc . |
| 15 | On one hand the public demands ever more complex and advanced technology while at the same time mistrusting and denigrating the scientific/technological base that helps to produce today 's high standard of living in the developed world . |
| 16 | Such a development must be welcomed as being in line with the requirements of dynamic competition and capable of increasing the competitiveness of European industry , improving the conditions of growth and raising the standard of living in the Community … |
| 17 | This system is based on the home salary and aims to ensure that the expatriate 's standard of living in the home country is maintained while he is working abroad . |
| 18 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 19 | Such tiny personal estates owned by eminent persons underline the initial impression of a thoroughly spartan standard of living in the North Country . |
| 20 | His prescriptions for a ‘ dignified and durable tourism ’ were : first , to limit the number of visitors and levy a $150–200 fee that would go directly into a conservation fund ; second , include conservation awareness as part of the visit ; third , improve the existing facilities rather than build new ; and fourth , work to improve the standard of living in the adjacent city of Siem Reap . |
| 21 | While some members may have experienced a steady rise in their standard of living in the latter half of the period , others were in no position to benefit . |
| 22 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 23 | The assumption behind the Bacon and Eltis thesis is that only industrial production can maintain and improve the standard of living in the country . |
| 24 | For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery . |
| 25 | Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America . |
| 26 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 27 | Very little is known about wages and prices or the standard of living before the Industrial Revolution : this project aims to explore some of this ground by the systematic collection of data from estate records , tax rolls , JPs ' records , merchants ' papers and other sources . |