stringent

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: To address this problem wheelchair services have been making eligibility criteria ever more stringent to suppress demand.

Modifies a noun

• precaution: We insist on a policy of stringent safety precautions, ensuring our clients are never too far out of touch with the western world.
• criterion: These stringent casualty criteria are a major obstacle in using more cameras along these roads.
• requirement: Scania cabs have to meet the world's most stringent safety requirements.
• regulation: Goat Milk Bath Soak with Honey is made in Germany to stringent European regulations.
• safeguard: He appears to be better at hiding behind outdated GM laws than he is at introducing more stringent public safeguards.
• standard: Such meat is subject to far less stringent standards.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Increasingly stringent regulations govern the disposal of confidential patient files.
• overly: The project's long incubation wasn't caused by overly stringent privacy controls, said Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust.
• sufficiently: GNVQs: Are GNVQs sufficiently stringent in assessing skills, knowledge and understanding?
• fairly: There are fairly stringent conditions attached to the provision of affordable housing in the village.
• extremely: The extremely stringent requirements for product registration set down in European law reflect this.
• quite: In addition, Councils may well subject vehicles to quite stringent tests which go beyond the main criteria of the MOT.

Infinitive complement

restrict: Certain owners may wish to make their security policy more stringent to restrict access to their bandwidth.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Company cars have proved to be less popular since the taxation rules have become more stringent.
• meet: An ECDIS is an official, type-approved display system ( more than an ECS ) that meets stringent IHO defined criteria.
• make: The procedures for registering foreigners in the country were also made more stringent.

Preposition: in

world: The EU regulations are among the most stringent in the world.

Preposition: than

• other: Having said that the rejection figures from the insurance companies do vary, so it may be that some are more stringent than others.
• standard: However, member states must also work toward achieving guideline quality standards which are more stringent than the minimum standards.