Example sentences of "[subord] compared [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nehemiah 's work can best be understood if compared with Greek events . |
| 2 | The rise in graduate unemployment is particularly shocking when compared with equivalent figures in other European countries . |
| 3 | When compared with healthy individuals , plasma concentrations of stearic acid ( C18:0 ) was significantly decreased . |
| 4 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 5 | The goal of one consultant general surgeon for 30000 population is modest when compared with international comparisons or even with Scotland , where there is currently one consultant for 31000 population , and Northern Ireland , where there is one for 28000 . |
| 6 | With regard to HDL levels , in general diabetic women have lower HDL-cholesterol levels than diabetic men when compared with non-diabetic controls ( Gordon et al , 1977 a ; Beach et al , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | This figure is relatively small when compared with many American cities , but that is no cause for satisfaction . |
| 8 | Truly , a former astronaut , who had served in the post for two years [ for his appointment see p. 37437 ] , had been criticized by the Bush administration for his support for the shuttle programme , which was deemed insufficiently cost-effective when compared with rival launching systems . |
| 9 | However , definitional factors pale into insignificance when compared with recent changes in household size . |
| 10 | Although it is by no means axiomatic , this notion of competitive intelligence usually brings with it an extra dimension , when compared with environmental analysis ( and , to a lesser degree , with issues management and marketing intelligence ) . |
| 11 | Likewise , the more naturalistic appearance of the central , sixteen-petalled flowers in mosaic 7 and mosaic C , North Hill , when compared with similar , smaller flowers in mosaic 10 , suggests that they are later . |
| 12 | Also , the device immediately to the right of this — a stylised calyx — when compared with similar devices in other parts of the pavement , is seen to be poorly drawn . |
| 13 | But the main point on the comparison I think here Chair , is that your homes are not expensive , when compared with similar provision and there 's still some unevenness in terms of funding between your homes and the independent sector . |
| 14 | Or they may incorporate values for the degree of error of past forecasts when compared with actual results achieved . |
| 15 | Simplified , formula-like techniques are inconsequential when compared with personal growth as a means of overcoming difficulties . |
| 16 | The plan is expected to involve about 40 redundancies — mainly sub-editors - as management believes the company is overstaffed when compared with new newspapers . |
| 17 | Those respondents who insisted on strict anonymity — to the extent of removing coding on the questionnaires and sending them back in plain brown envelopes — not surprisingly pointed to the anonymity factor as an attractive feature of headhunting when compared with in-house recruiting . |
| 18 | The fact is that the birth rate declined by almost half between the 1900 and the late 1930s , and by an even higher proportion when compared with nineteenth-century levels . |
| 19 | If the empiricism in question has the attraction of method and restraint , at least when compared with certain other things , it is not something in which anyone , including its proponents , can persist . |
| 20 | For example , Pain et al have shown that in experimental tumour bearing animals , protein synthesis was decreased in skeletal muscle but increased in liver when compared with non-tumour bearing controls . |
| 21 | Of those women who were single and in their late twenties in 1921 , 50 per cent remained unmarried a decade later : this figure is particularly striking when compared with that for men , of whom only 30 per cent failed to marry . |
| 22 | In contrast , lamina propria mononuclear cells from all groups responded to CaI stimulation , the increase in PAF activity being similar among them and significantly greater when compared with that of unstimulated cells . |
| 23 | It is for this — and other reasons — that some scholars have argued that both Britain and France exerted influence upon the formation of Nato well in excess of their physical strength — especially when compared with that of the United States . |
| 24 | As an arrangement of " L " -shapes around a central square , therefore , the Culver Street mosaic , when compared with that from the Victoria Inn , again suggests further , complicated relationships between mosaic A , North Hill , and , indirectly ( through the Oceanus mosaic ) , the Cupids mosaic from Middleborough . |
| 25 | Here , like all nuclear reactors , Hinkley C stood out as unique when compared with other means of generating electricity . |
| 26 | Conservative governments elected since 1979 have argued consistently that one reason for Britain 's traditionally weak economic performance , when compared with other developed economies , has been the degree of regulation , control and taxation imposed on producers and potential entrepreneurs . |
| 27 | Without some assessment of what proportion of cases are likely to respond to homoeopathic treatment , an estimate of its efficacy when compared with other therapies is impossible . |
| 28 | Our wc is particularly noisy when compared with other people 's . |
| 29 | Director of product marketing for engines , A J Brown , realises that , when compared with other database vendors , the Menlo Park , California-based company is late in announcing its move to NT , but said it wanted to be sure there was enough customer demand . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , while director of product marketing for engines , A J Brown , realises that , when compared with other database vendors , the Menlo Park , California-based company is late in announcing its move to NT , he said it wanted to be sure there was enough customer demand . |