Example sentences of "[noun pl] compared with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no significant difference between cases and controls in oral contraceptive use : 12 of the 16 hypertensive women had recorded use of oral contraceptives compared with 13 of the 16 controls . |
| 2 | Better still , look at its insurance ratings compared with close rivals ' : the Golf GTi and Rover 216 GTi fall into group 14 , the Escort XR3i into group 15 , the Furio nestles happily in group 11 . |
| 3 | It may seem grudging then to criticise the book for only including four essays on women 's visual images compared with seven pieces on different themes and genres in women 's writing . |
| 4 | The British Merchant Navy now consists of 545 vessels compared with 1682 vessels in 1975 . |
| 5 | Infra-red spectroscopic studies and nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of potentized solutions compared with straight dilutions also suggest the presence of long-chain molecules , although these studies have yet to be confirmed . |
| 6 | Only 4 per cent of housing stock in English rural districts compared with 6 per cent of the total English housing stock exceeded the official overcrowding index in 1971 , but almost 38 per cent of housing in rural districts was defined as ‘ under-occupied ’ . |
| 7 | Rural England has significantly higher proportions of ‘ non-permanent buildings ’ than does urban England : 1.3 per cent of the stock in rural districts compared with 0.5 per cent in urban districts . |
| 8 | We found lower values of vitamin E in these subjects compared with healthy controls ( 12.5 µM v 16.4 µM , p<0.005 ) and lower vitamin A values in patients with colorectal carcinoma compared with controls ( 1.33 µM v 1.5 µM , p<0.005 ) . |
| 9 | There appeared to be no increase in the airborne micro-organism level from embalming autopsied cases , although the wipe samples from gloves ( not surprisingly ) showed much higher levels from autopsied subjects compared with intact subjects . |
| 10 | Reduction in average intellectual ability ( IQ >2 SD below population mean in 8–10% , of subjects compared with expected 2% ) |
| 11 | Some 4 million more householders own their own homes compared with 1979 . |
| 12 | Ninety-two per cent of those in old people 's homes compared with 82 per cent of those in other sorts of homes had this amenity — a difference which fell short of statistical significance — but more of those in old people 's homes had a room of their own , two-thirds against half . |
| 13 | Compared with the number of dogs who are registered , entries to shows are quite small : fifty to a hundred entries compared with 3,000 registrations for 1986 . |
| 14 | And a British teacher I knew used to point out to me the oddness of Chinese children 's drawing styles compared with those of Western children . |
| 15 | During the four weeks to March 12th , there were 439 new registrations for jobs and training at careers offices compared with 553 in the previous month . |
| 16 | Despite the conclusion of a Comprehensive Programme of Integration in 1971 , progress on this front has been pitiful in many respects compared with that achieved within the EEC . |
| 17 | It has ‘ about average ’ socio-economic characteristics compared with other LEAs in the country , but there are stark contrasts between areas of the city . |
| 18 | In that cohort , council tenants have their first child much sooner after marriage than owner occupiers ( median interval thirteen months compared with thirty months ) and also have their third births much sooner after their second . |
| 19 | The stone free interval between stone dissolution and trial entry proved to be important — those stone free>nine months had a recurrence rate of only 12.7 ( 6.0 ) % at 42 months compared with 55.4 ( 12.5 ) % in those stone free |
| 20 | It 's still a business in crisis but reduction in the scale of losses compared with 1986 means that managing director Paul Marsden and his management team can take satisfaction that their efforts to revive one of the giants of ICI Chemicals & Polymers are on course . |
| 21 | In many cases , both the minimisation of environmental impact and cost savings compared with previous practice have been achieved . |
| 22 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 23 | FSO sold just 99 cars compared with 480 in the same month last year . |
| 24 | There are now 25,000 swans on waterways compared with 19,000 in the last count in 1983 , according to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 25 | Table 10 ) Sample sizes are small ( 35 bones compared with 2135 from the scats ) , but it would appear that the numbers and proportions of isolated teeth and jaws are low compared with the numbers of vertebrae and pelves/scapulae . |
| 26 | The same thing probably applies to smaller communities compared with larger ones . |
| 27 | The advantages compared with ordinary civil procedure were largely limited to Rome , since each province had only one jurisdictional magistrate . |
| 28 | Akiyama et al showed that in transformed cells the turnover of Β 1 integrins is increased , leading to a decrease in the intracellular pool of pre-Β polypeptides compared with normal cells . |
| 29 | Nietzsche was more enthusiastic about Wagner 's music than ever : " What are all other artistic memories and experiences compared with this latest one ! |
| 30 | The average male unemployment rate was 7.3 per cent in urban areas compared with 10.5. per cent in the rural areas . |