Example sentences of "standards be [be] " in BNC.

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1 Stiffer emission standards are being introduced to reduce permissible levels .
2 There are and will be additional costs arising from the existence of JAA , not because the same job is being done twice , but because there is a need , if there is to be wide applicability , to ensure that common standards are being applied .
3 Do check that these standards are being maintained .
4 And most countries with nuclear power programmes are , are pa er er are , subscribe to the International Atomic Energy Agency which sets international standards er and they have inspectors who , who er check these standards are being observed .
5 Which er gives some sort of erm er comfort that in fact the international standards are being maintained .
6 If a high proportion of compositions submitted for GCSE employ the language of ‘ popular ’ rather than ‘ classical ’ music , this does not imply that creative standards are being compromised .
7 First , they take notice of what the customers want and incorporate their requirements into their products or services and , second , they have a quality monitoring programme within the organization to ensure that agreed standards are being met .
8 While such inspectors are usually required to satisfy their departments that local services are provided efficiently and that minimum standards are being met , their role has increasingly been educative rather than coercive .
9 HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS : ‘ SAFETY STANDARDS ARE BEING DICTATED BY ACCOUNTANTS ’
10 Safety standards are being dictated by accountants .
11 As standards are being finalised , consideration is given to arrangements for the assessment of candidates ' competence .
12 Landfills not meeting such standards are being closed : since 1980 more than 3,000 sites for household waste have been shut , and half the remaining 5,500 will shut over the next few years .
13 All such lodgings are inspected by Allocations Office Staff and are regularly revisited to ensure that the correct standards are being maintained .
14 The Allocations Office maintains a register of approved board lodgings and self-catering bedsits , all of which are inspected before inclusion in the register and visited subsequently to ensure that correct standards are being maintained .
15 SeaWatch director Sven Hansen says that recent international agreements to reduce pollution mean that it is particularly important to set up a system capable of ensuring standards are being met .
16 The RSPCA 's standards are being welcomed by the British Domestic Ostrich Association which is asking farmers throughout the country to adopt the recommendations .
17 I think with the advent of the Japanese vehicles erm and the fact that standards are being improved by all the manufacturers generally , that , yes , overall the number of claims overall will reduce .
18 If fierce enforcement powers had been available when basic accounting standards were being evolved , compliance with standards might have been more uniform , but the standard of financial reporting would not necessarily have been improved .
19 The attack comes only days after school inspectors said they had ‘ little confidence ’ that proper GCSE standards were being maintained .
20 Standards were being reviewed by a working party which will report to the Police Advisory Board at the end of the year , he said .
21 And they dismissed an inspectors ' report which doubted standards were being maintained .
22 This type of polemic about the decline of clear cultural standards is being heard everywhere these days .
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