Example sentences of "[be] compared [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When these figures are compared with the amounts of net personal income paid in the same period , it can be seen ( column ( 4 ) ) that about 40 per cent of net personal income in these three regions was financed out of net dissaving ( or losses ) . |
| 2 | One of the main departures from this sense of completeness is the detachment of the maxilla from the rest of the skull , and as an indicator of this first stage of breakage , the numbers of isolated maxillae present in the bone assemblage are compared with the numbers of skulls . |
| 3 | When these are compared with the word ’ river ’ and its definition ( which might contain words like ’ stream ’ , ’ water ’ , ’ flow ’ , etc. ) , we can immediately see a greater overlap with the geographical definition of ’ bank ’ . |
| 4 | A similar result is obtained if the senses of ’ bank ’ are compared with the word ’ swim ’ . |
| 5 | The newt 's legs , advanced though they are compared with the fin of a coelacanth or a mudskipper , are not very efficient . |
| 6 | When the hourly rates agency workers receive are compared with the notional hourly earnings of many regular staff , excluding the value of such fringe benefits as holiday and sick pay and pensions ( the so-called " bottom-line comparison " ) , many " temps " appear substantially better off than people in traditional employment . |
| 7 | Because BR has no direct competitor in the UK , some performance indicators are compared with the average of 14 European railways : |
| 8 | So to sum up : if the words in a language are compared with the cards in a pack , the numbers in each suit would be like the open set classes . |
| 9 | ‘ See how sleek and fat and well-fed they are compared with the spindly , underfed Romanian horses . ’ |
| 10 | The results of cytology are compared with the method of sampling in Table III . |
| 11 | These were still everywhere small numbers , especially if they are compared with the very much bigger ones in the other great ministries of all the major states . |
| 12 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 13 | Now uranium erm is , is er a non-renewable resource like oi oil and coal and gas but there 's an awful lot of it in the world and this is erm the reserves of the energy they can give are compared to the remaining reserves of coal or and er gas , you can see it 's one of the largest energy resources on on earth . |
| 14 | Thinking to the future , this will enable more accurate attributions to particular factories or regions as unmarked pieces are compared to the illustrated example . |
| 15 | So as we get a platform on a level of erm if you like , performance , where we are compared to the Ferraris , the McClarens etc. , and any other ones down the field . |
| 16 | Interestingly , the dielectric loss appears to match the loss modulus more closely than the loss compliance when data are compared for the same system . |
| 17 | These candidate strings are compared against the 26-way tree of words ( figure 3.3 ) . |
| 18 | Realizations of ( Ε ) by both male and female speakers are compared in the two outer-city communities and in the small country town of Lurgan , seventeen miles from Belfast ( see 4.3.6 ) . |
| 19 | Blood flow measurements in the three groups are compared in the Table and in Figure 1 . |
| 20 | People who are mentally , physically and visually handicapped have been described in terms of their ‘ dependence ’ and this has been compared with the ‘ independence ’ enjoyed by intelligent , able-bodied adults in relation to the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 21 | The petrological analysis has not been compared with the distribution of die-sets , yet the sheer volume of material , about 200 vessels from about twelve sites , one being the settlement of West Stow in Suffolk , might seem to argue strongly that the products are from a single workshop . |
| 22 | The attack upon the clerical ministers in the parliament of 1371 has sometimes been compared with the similar attack in 1340–1 . |
| 23 | The figures of the Roman war potential ( which is what men of military age means ) ought to have been compared with the Carthaginian war potential , but Polybius never does that . |
| 24 | Similarly , the longterm outcome of adult patients treated with elemental diet has not been compared with the outcome after steroid treatment in a prospective fashion . |
| 25 | Casting and smithing in Nigeria reached a standard from the 10th century onwards that has been compared to the art of Benvenuto Cellini . |
| 26 | The effect of this change could be profound : it has been compared to the revolution that science produced in the consciousness of men and women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 27 | Discs have to that is The La 's , who have been compared to The Beatles , for Chrissakes , and The Stairs , who are , let's face it , a doped-up R&B group . |
| 28 | The stratigraphic record has been compared to the traditional life of a soldier — long periods of boredom interrupted by moments of terror ( Ager , 1973 ) . |
| 29 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 30 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |