The phrase "a standard has" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the existence or establishment of a standard in a particular context, such as regulations, practices, or measurements.
Example: "A standard has been set for the quality of materials used in construction to ensure safety."
Alternatives: "a criterion exists" or "a benchmark has been established."
A standard has been published to establish a uniform protocol of constraint testing (American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) International, 2005; Designation: F 1223-05.
After a standard has been prescribed, these statutes make it unlawful for any one to pack for sale or transport for sale, or sell, the article in a container unless it conforms to the standard.
Such a standard has already applied to presidential primaries in the state, as of February, after the residency requirement for petition collectors was challenged by Mr. McCain and others.
To be successful, a standard has to be built so that it can keep abreast of rapid technological advancements by accommodating modifications that don't obsolete earlier devices that were developed to the original version.
This is a standards body; it organizes meetings that allow competing groups to define standards, shepherding them from a "working draft" to "candidate recommendation" and "proposed recommendation," and finally, if a standard has been sufficiently poked and prodded, granting the ultimate imprimatur, "W3C recommendation".
Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes, that a name, a phrase, a standard has meaning only when associated with the considerations which gave birth to the nomenclature.…To those who would paralyze our government in the face of impending threats by encasing it in a semantic straitjacket we must reply that all concepts are relative.
The error has been calculated in relation to a standard, having the form of an ideal low-pass filter.
Many said it was the first time such a standard had been spelled out by a court.
After Carolina and Cincinnati had instant success with Cam Newton and Andy Dalton a standard had been set for the rest of the league.
This isn't the first time a complaint about a double standard has applied to Gronk's partying ways.
"Key indicators" provide a way of measuring whether a minimum standard has been attained.
