Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] standards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Older reporters fed up with the declining standards of Fleet Street ; younger ones condemned to the grind of sycophantic local newspapers owned by disinterested big groups ; good freelances — all were ready to start work . |
| 2 | In short , all existing and future minerals planning permissions must be brought up to the environmental standards expected today , and provision must be made for a regular upgrading of standards in the future . |
| 3 | The Chandos digital recording , made in the SNO Centre , Glasgow , is up to the best standards of the house , naturally balanced with a fine bloom on the sound and vivid detail . |
| 4 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 5 | The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards . |
| 6 | Concentrate instead on your own reputation by continuing to live up to the high standards you always set yourself . |
| 7 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 8 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 9 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 10 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 11 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |
| 12 | I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’ |
| 13 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 14 | All important to the reputation of the company is British Standard 5750 , the quality assurance scheme set up by the British Standards Institute and to which Stoddard Carpets Ltd. , were awarded full registration two years ago . |