Example sentences of "by compare it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Furthermore we may appear , by using an epidemiological approach , to have added to the stigma of heroin use by comparing it with a ‘ disease ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As adults we similarly cope with anything new by comparing it with something we already know about . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |