Example sentences of "up to [art] standard " in BNC.

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1 ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system .
2 This course permits students with a general qualification in biology at degree level to undertake further study in specific areas of biological science up to a standard roughly equivalent to a specialised Honours degree .
3 But instead of bringing civilian scientists up to the standard of their military colleagues , many Soviet scientists feel there has been a levelling down .
4 Still , if you do n't mind suspending your disbelief as you walk into the cinema , Deceived is a cut above recent thrillers like Shattered and A Kiss Before Dying , though hardly up to the standard of Fatal Attraction or Jagged Edge .
5 Once revved up to the standard , frenetic pitch of activity , one day becomes a limitless bank account with which you can do everything … and anything .
6 Not all were up to the standard of Miss Clarke , most were a lot older .
7 But under these centralization plans , Wolverton had to forfeit from its smithy most of its hammers and drop stamps to Derby , to bring , it was said , this works up to the standard and capabilities of Wolverton .
8 Top marks to Fender for continuing to care for us , the poverty-stricken masses , but while the Squier Hank was a nice enough guitar , we felt that the pickups and hardware were not really up to the standard of an early-to-mid '80s Squier or Tokai .
9 ‘ Oh , I think Miss Grenfell is right , ’ she said guardedly , ‘ my work is not up to the standard you require . ’
10 Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition .
11 ‘ It 's not yet up to the standard of EDS , of 12% ( of revenue ) pre-tax , but we aim to get there within the next few years .
12 Although the New Zealand team had a top wicketkeeper in Ken James , who was compared to Bert Oldfield , in ability , the Kiwi fielding was never up to the standard of today 's players .
13 They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now .
14 It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology .
15 Some students were reduced to learning their work parrot-fashion in order to keep up to the standard , while at the same time lacking any real understanding of what they were taught .
16 Although this is n't up to the standard of the Lotus add-in for placement of graphics on-screen , at least it 's slightly more accurate when it comes to the final report .
17 This 1989 lives up to the standard of the previous vintage : smoky , lightly spicy dry white of immense charm and character .
18 Once the lessons began I realized that I was not nearly up to the standard of the others .
19 Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others .
20 They were marvellous at the Reading Festival , bloody marvellous in fact , and ‘ Let's Not ’ is well up to the standard of first time around classics like ‘ Trumpton Riots ’ and ‘ Dickie Davies Eyes ’ .
21 I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control .
22 Although such legal standards result in pollution concentrations being reduced to an acceptable level in a ‘ polluted ’ area , pollution in a ‘ clean ’ area is allowed to increase up to the standard .
23 Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’
24 ‘ As long as it 's up to the standard of all the other music we play and in line with what listeners ’ tastes require us to provide , although opinions will inevitably vary regarding both criteria , especially as we 're a non-specialist station with specialist programmes . ’
25 In some Peel Park and Torness departments , for instance , TOP has not yet had the impact required to bring the programme up to the standard achieved at Hunterston .
26 We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK .
27 ’ The car came up to the standard required .
28 The best that the Government can do is propose to bring the worst regulator up to the standard of the inadequate , when we need regulation aspiring to the standards of the best .
29 Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain .
30 New workstations installed after 1st January 1993 must comply fully from the outset , and all others must be brought up to the standard by December 31st , 1995 .
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