Example sentences of "[conj] in contrast to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 2 | Cardinal Glemp was persuaded to recant in meetings with British Jews who , to their credit and in contrast to many of their American compatriots , took the route of quiet persuasion rather than shrill denunciation . |
| 3 | In the District , and in contrast to the national trend , Tutorial Classes virtually doubled between 1925 and 1931 — from thirteen to twenty-five and their membership was composed of about one-third of students from manual occupations . |
| 4 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 5 | Near the top of the hill stood the large white building which was the San Martino Museum and above it , and in contrast to the museum 's firm elegant lines , could be seen the solid brown ramparts of St Elmo 's Castle . |
| 6 | Nevertheless in a very large institution such as the University of London , with large and geographically scattered subject collections , a divide and rule system is inevitable , and in contrast to Hindle 's findings , a survey on the ‘ Overlap of acquisitions in the University of London Libraries ’ found that duplication in this kind of situation was in fact relatively small . |
| 7 | And in contrast to other Disney architects , he gets right down to the specification of interiors , controlling the design of carpets , fabrics , furniture , accessories and even restaurant tableware . |
| 8 | Under these conditions AER regeneration does not occur , and in contrast to what has been observed in the chick , there is no obvious effect of AER removal on limb outgrowth ( Figs 1 a , b and 2 a ) . |
| 9 | In Holman 's view — and in contrast to beliefs held in some quarters — social work practice tends not to encourage contact between parents and children in care , or the reunification of separated families . |
| 10 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |
| 11 | Thus it can be concluded that the LTP , and in contrast to Bliss 's group , other labs reported that there was an increase in the number of these receptors in hippocampal neurons following induction of LTP , thus moving the focus of interest about mechanism from the pre-to the postsynaptic side . |
| 12 | In the latter case ( unless the wife is purchasing the property or the mortgagee is advancing monies when the ordinary search Form 94A is appropriate ) a search on Form 94C should be made , although such a search does not confer priority for the registration of any dealing ( Land Registration ( Official Searches ) Rules 1990 ( SI No 1361 ) , r9 ) and in contrast to Form 94A requires a fee of £8 ( Land Registration Fees Order 1992 ) . |
| 13 | In RENFE , basic pay has been supplemented by a plethora of bonuses and allowances ( in 1983 , there were well over 100 separate remunerative headings in addition to basic pay ) , and in contrast to BR , employees receive age-related increments at four-yearly intervals . |
| 14 | Like Jubert , and in contrast to Campana , Captain Augustin Cochin of the 146th Regiment sat on the Mort Homme — from April 9th to April 14th — without once seeing a German infantryman ; a not uncommon experience at Verdun . |
| 15 | This type of remembering , which comes unbidden , through the sense of taste or touch or smell , is what Marcel of course calls ‘ involuntary ’ or ‘ affective memory ’ , and in contrast to intellectual memory it recaptures past experience in its lived immediacy . |
| 16 | Of the active membership ninety percent were homeowners , but in contrast to the two neighbourhoods presented above , their average length of tenancy was twenty-five years . |
| 17 | But in contrast to past surveys — where any momentary upturn , however slight , was seized upon as evidence of imminent recovery — optimists are now those who do not think that things will get any worse . |
| 18 | But in contrast to the sturdy independence of the encircling nations , many of the island-groups within have still to shake off the mastery of foreign powers , and remain in subjugation . |
| 19 | But in contrast to conventional psychologists ' shuddering rejection of everything psychoanalytic , feminists retain an interest in and commitment to psychoanalysis as an account of the intricacies of gendered subjectivities , and their development . |
| 20 | But in contrast to the Cameroon line , the Madeira lavas are derived from an enriched MORB-type source with low 207 Pb/ 204 Pb and 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and high 143 Nd/ 144 Nd . |
| 21 | The ‘ possible worlds ’ which had interested earlier thinkers now seemed realized in other societies , as history and anthropology became developed ; but in contrast to human societies , nature seemed fixed and uncompromising . |
| 22 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 23 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 24 | Admittedly even he was sometimes touched by doubt , but in contrast to many other leading political figures his faith in the American connection was remarkably strong and consistent . |
| 25 | Also , along two sides of mosaic 6 are strips of thorn pattern ( dark on light , as in mosaic B but in contrast to mosaic C , at North Hill ) . |
| 26 | But in contrast to Germany , the French population suffered relatively little from commodity shortages . |