Example sentences of "[noun sg] compared with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my part , I conclude that the life prisoner should be informed of the judge 's advice on tariff , together with any comments the judges , or either of them , may have made about the responsibility of the prisoner for the crime compared with that of any co-defendant tried with him . |
| 2 | In Varese ( the home town of Northern League leader Umberto Bossi ) it won 37 per cent of the vote compared with 27 per cent in the April 1992 general election , and in Monza its share of the vote increased from 20 to 32 per cent . |
| 3 | The PPP list headed by Jagan received 52.3 per cent of the vote compared with 43.6 per cent for the PNC list , headed by incumbent President Desmond Hoyte . |
| 4 | Bush polled 88 per cent of the vote compared with 2 per cent for Buchanan ( who had not campaigned in the state ) and 17 per cent for uncommitted delegates . |
| 5 | The party came third , with 13.0 per cent of the vote compared with 31.1 per cent in the general election in 1988 . |
| 6 | In the Republican contest in Connecticut Bush won 67 per cent of the vote compared with 22 per cent for Buchanan , 2 per cent for Duke , and 9 per cent for uncommitted delegates . |
| 7 | The SPÖ [ not Social Democrats as stated on p. 36528 ] registered its worst result in the province since 1945 , but the centre-right liberal Freedom Party of Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs — FPÖ ) nearly doubled its share of the vote compared with 1984 [ see p. 33357 ] and doubled its share of seats . |
| 8 | In the Republican contest in Pennsylvania Bush received 77 per cent of the vote compared with 23 per cent for Pat Buchanan . |
| 9 | The Labour candidate secured 49 per cent of the vote compared with 25 per cent in 1987 while the Conservative share fell from 51 to 32 per cent ; the Liberal Democrat received 11 per cent and the Social Democrat 2@1/2 per cent , whereas the Liberal/Alliance candidate had had 23 per cent in 1987 . |
| 10 | The final result was close , with Jordan polling 52 per cent of the vote compared with 48 per cent for Agnos . |
| 11 | Kim Young Sam , the first president without a military background to be elected in South Korea since 1960 , topped the poll in every region apart from Seoul — where he won 36 per cent of the vote compared with 37.6 per cent for Kim Dae Jung — and Kim Dae Jung 's home region of south-west Cholla province . |
| 12 | Sardines , she thought , travelled in luxury compared with human beings forced to use the railways at Christmas time . |
| 13 | Tumour extracts also contained higher concentrations of immunoreactivity compared with normal tissue , in assays using antibodies L289 and 109–21 . |
| 14 | The difference between the study periods , however , was a maximum of 10 weeks in the previous study compared with 14 months in this study . |
| 15 | Cost of using executive search compared with in-house recruiting : |
| 16 | Work is at around 2.5mph and the system saves about two-thirds of chemical compared with overall application . |
| 17 | In 1981–2 , for example , over 41,000 young people entered the Programme compared with 30,600 in 1980–1 . |
| 18 | However , CVS may be associated with a higher risk of pregnancy loss compared with second-trimester amniocentesis . |
| 19 | That is why we enjoy higher inward investment compared with those two countries . |
| 20 | Of patients in group A , six ( 50% ) had detectable antibody with a perinuclear pattern on immunofluorescent staining compared with three of 19 ( 16% ) in group B. All patients in group A were symptomatic at initial presentation ( 11 patients hadright upper quadrant pain , eight had cholangitis , two had pruritus , and two had symptoms related to hepatic decompensation ) . |
| 21 | The concept of clustering would increase the input-output capability compared with monolithic servers , and would also enable users to consolidate proliferating local network servers , thus regaining some control . |
| 22 | They can not be ignored , but should always be given low weight compared with other terms in the search . |
| 23 | But it also had potential drawbacks , because the use of a church 's income , or part of it , to provide for members of a family could assume a disproportionate weight compared with religious observance . |
| 24 | Anala ( 1974 ) thought that mussels should be the preferred prey for H. lapillus as they offered a richer source of food than barnacles ; 4.844 k cal g — 1 dry weight compared with 3.827 . |
| 25 | ‘ The last BMRC survey indicated a 90,000 business readership compared with 59,000 two years ago . ’ |
| 26 | But even the problems of these companies seem to pale into insignificance compared with those of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 27 | And it should be remembered that despite a tremendous volume of criticism that heralded the Bennett appointment as the Commandant of Pathfinder Force , it was but a murmur compared with that when he was appointed AOC of No 8 ( PFF ) Group at the tender age of 31 . |
| 28 | They 're confident of staying within a five million pound budget … a fairly conservative figure compared with other flying thrillers . |
| 29 | This figure compared with 1,159 deaths reported in Jammu and Kashmir . |
| 30 | According to the 1987 General Household Survey ( GHS ) 17 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 22 per cent of those aged 75 + consulted a GP in the 14 days before interview compared with 15 per cent for the general population ( Figure 7.9 ) . |