Example sentences of "[noun] compared with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) The remeasured quantity and rates would be abstracted each week and on completion compared with the breakdown provided by the estimator . |
| 2 | It is certainly not a very edifying tale , but it is small fry compared with the massacre in Romania last weekend at Timisoara , and the further shootings reported to have taken place in Bucharest yesterday . |
| 3 | They were however years of pleasure compared with the five which were to follow , when , with his successor Neville Chamberlain first out of 10 , Downing Street and then dead in six months , Baldwin became a target of resentment for the perils to which the nation found itself exposed . |
| 4 | One could almost claim that setting course south of Paris for Geneva nearly 250 miles away was a pleasure compared with the more northerly targets . |
| 5 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 6 | Now is n't that an anonimous vote compared with the first one ? |
| 7 | Significant ( p<0.001 ) suppressions of urinary PABA excretion were found in rats pretreated with antibiotics compared with the control group ( B1 , 4.9 ( 1.6 ) µg ; B2 , 31.0 ( 4.7 ) µg ; B3 , 40.9 ( 5.5 ) µg ) . |
| 8 | A randomised trial of elderly hypertensive patients in primary care reported a non-significant excess of fatal cancers of the bronchus in the group given atenolol compared with the control group ( an excess risk of 1.89 , 95% confidence interval 0.88 to 4.08 ) . |
| 9 | They agreed a contract that will bring Mansell £3million a year , a pittance compared with the £12 million he was offered to rejoin Ferrari and the £8 million a year he was on at Renault-Williams . |
| 10 | In practice the planning style will fall between these two extremes , with the degree of input from the planning department compared with the business units varying from company to company . |
| 11 | Given that Scotland has little going for it in the way of geography , nothing special in the natural resources department compared with the seriously oil-rich countries and now a minimal industrial base , he argues that the asset in which we have consistently under-invested is our people . |
| 12 | The impedances of the series components are multiplied by a factor m compared with the prototype where m lies between zero and unity . |
| 13 | First the impedances of the shunt components are divided by a factor m compared with the prototype where m lies between zero and unity . |
| 14 | The main benefit to the United States of the Smithsonian Agreement lay in the new exchange rates which embodied a 9 per cent devaluation of the dollar in relation to other currencies compared with the pre-August rates and thus increased US competitiveness . |
| 15 | The demolition and clearage of the old site allowed the erection , during the following year , of the new Fire Station , complete with practice tower , the position giving easier access to the surrounding neighbourhood compared with the restricted access from the old fire station position on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Linden Gardens . |
| 16 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 17 | What interested me was how the editorial approach to these readers compared with the neighbouring ad : ‘ A weak Gordon 's & Tonic ( please do not adjust your magazine ) ’ , it said , wetly . |
| 18 | Thus in university towns and cities , there is often comparatively little gonorrhoea compared with the large urban areas , where shifting populations seem to be one of the reasons for an increased prevalence of the venereal diseases . |
| 19 | Once established , a pool needs very little maintenance compared with the many delights it offers . |
| 20 | Figure 3 shows a comparison of pitted erythrocyte counts in the current drinkers compared with the ‘ reformed ’ group . |
| 21 | Now , I know our views on this will differ somewhat , but even the European Commission has publicly expressed its concern just recently over the levels of unemployment across Europe and about the international competitiveness of European industry compared with the rest of the world . |
| 22 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 23 | Published works of the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s all tended to follow this approach , and while there were occasional signs of shifts in direction , these were mere rustlings in the undergrowth compared with the revolution taking place elsewhere in British archaeology . |
| 24 | The study that gall bladder bile from cholesterol gall stone patients had a higher concentration of mucin despite a similar total protein concentration compared with the controls supports this possibility . |
| 25 | The high resolution of SPOT pictures compared with the rival Landsat series is easily apparent from the results of these tests , and from the more novel images of the SPOT simulations . |
| 26 | As previously reported , the H pylori positive patients with DU and the H pylori positive healthy controls had similarly exaggerated integrated gastrin responses to eating compared with the H pylori negative healthy controls . |
| 27 | However , in volume terms , exports were up seven per cent in the last three months compared with the previous three months and was up 13 per cent on a year ago . |
| 28 | Dr Wesnes said that using volunteers with ‘ fake ’ Alzheimers Disease enabled a new drug to be evaluated within three months compared with the three to five years for a full-scale trial on ‘ real ’ patients . |
| 29 | The Independent on Sunday is the only quality Sunday newspaper to have increased sales over the past six months compared with the previous year . |
| 30 | Two pots , labelled A and B , were visibly poor growers compared with the other three . |