Example sentences of "compare [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 2 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 3 | Jesus compared himself to the bridegroom . |
| 4 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 5 | Subtitled Diana Unclothed , it compared her to the Lady of Shallott , Greta Garbo , Sleeping Beauty and Mother Theresa . |
| 6 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 7 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 8 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 10 | Others have compared it to the sensitivity of the medium and the magnetism of the hypnotist . ’ |
| 11 | The hobbyist 's name ‘ Quetzal ’ compares it to the Central American bird of that name almost legendary for its fabulous colours . |
| 12 | Once this is decided , you can look at your original operational requirements and compare them to the products in the representative 's portfolio . |
| 13 | Compare it to the way a bobby pounds his beat or to the leisurely stroll Prince Philip adopts when he follows his wife on a walkabout . |
| 14 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 15 | The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use . |
| 16 | I mean when you compare it to the new one in the which is awful . |
| 17 | I du n no , go and compare it to the turd on the floor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 20 | ‘ Nothing could be more sterile and parched than the islands in Bass 's Straits ’ , wrote Gould later , comparing them to the idyllic and verdant plains of the Upper Hunter River in Australia . |
| 21 | Comparing them to the English Baroque woodwinds , it is clear that they became the prototype and standard for English makers well into the 18th century . |
| 22 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |
| 23 | Comparing it to the fixtures that were recently posted on rec.sport.soccer , the corrections are as follows : — |
| 24 | In the ground attack side we 're comparing it to the jaguar that it 'll replace , the harrier G R seven and also the tornado G R four and then in the multi-role arena for air defence , air superiority and attack we 're comparing our aircraft against the French Raphall the American F eighteen E which is the the future variant of the F eighteen , the F fifteen E , the multi-role but primarily air to surface machine and also the F sixteen C. Those are the ones we 're currently looking at . |
| 25 | The friar sat for a while admiring the beauty of St John 's Chapel , comparing it to the grimness of St Erconwald 's . |
| 26 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 27 | You 'd have to compare it to the Rickenbacker 650 reviewed last month — roughly the same price , but a much slicker guitar — or maybe a Hamer Special , if your tendencies are more Gibson-orientated . |
| 28 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |