Example sentences of "by compare [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People most strenuously seek to evaluate their performance by comparing themselves to others , not by using absolute standards . |
| 2 | But I was disappointed with the churlish leader — ‘ A Hard Act To Follow ’ — which was a negative piece damning Faldo by comparing him with Nicklaus . |
| 3 | In fact the early mechanical clocks were adjusted by comparing them with sundials . |
| 4 | Their size can be assessed by comparing them with the original spread in the chronic sickness rates ; this will be discussed at length in the next section . |
| 5 | What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group . |
| 6 | But before turning to Buid relations with neighbouring lowlanders , I will bring out the specificity of Buid attitudes toward violence and aggression by comparing them with other Philippine groups who have a less negative attitude toward these phenomena . |
| 7 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |
| 8 | The significance of these percentages can be gauged by comparing them with the South East 's share of total manufacturing which stood then at about 27 per cent . |
| 9 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 10 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 11 | By contrast , High Anglican polemicists repeatedly sought to discredit the Whigs and Nonconformists by comparing them to Catholics and Jesuits . |
| 12 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 13 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 14 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 15 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 16 | The reader may like to reflect on his/her own planning approach and assess its validity by comparing it with the following checklist of factors which facilitate effective planning . |
| 17 | Furthermore we may appear , by using an epidemiological approach , to have added to the stigma of heroin use by comparing it with a ‘ disease ’ . |
| 18 | The development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning , because the bird learns its song by comparing it with a template rather than because of any consequence of singing a better chaffinch song . |
| 19 | Before going on to examine the more detailed contributions of Russian Formalism to specific areas of literary studies , it might be worth pausing to assess the Formalist position by comparing it with the assumptions which it had set out to replace , and which to a certain extent continue to inform ( albeit implicitly ) critical studies still being produced today . |
| 20 | As adults we similarly cope with anything new by comparing it with something we already know about . |
| 21 | As others in the class were quick to respond , the only way by which one knows that a country is unique is by comparing it with others . |
| 22 | In the course of the book Nash delineates popfiction by comparing it with the classics and tabloid journalism ( Chapter 1 ) , with naturally occurring conversation ( Chapters 2 and 3 ) , and finally with narrative techniques pertaining to film-making ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 23 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |
| 24 | Just as one can know whether one is short or tall only by comparing oneself with others , so one can know whether one 's own political system is " short " or " tall " only by putting it alongside other systems and noting the differences . |