Example sentences of "compare [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Then the reader is advised to read the accounting policies and compare them with the policies used in the previous year and with those competitors use .
32 For a confirmation of this , you only have to look at some of Turner 's paintings of the Dales and compare them with the reality to see how much poetic licence has been taken for the sake of the " phantasmagoric " .
33 We shall examine the results of his experiments and compare them with the results that we would expect if the records were perfectly randomized .
34 Compare them with the main reasons supporting the argument .
35 In this paper we describe the results of restorative proctocolectomy in 18 patients over the age of 50 whom we have treated in the past six years and compare them with the results achieved in younger patients .
36 So let us start with present-day society and compare it with the situation twenty years or so ago , and then compare that generation with its predecessor .
37 But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily !
38 Write down a list of everything that you regularly eat and drink , and compare it with the following recommended lists of foods and drinks to increase and decrease .
39 The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one .
40 Compare it with the sentence : ‘ That sensation is excited in our minds by the presence to our organs of any one of numerous objects . ’
41 Consider the question ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ There exist pains I do n't feel , pains in other minds ’ ? ’ , and compare it with the question about afternoon on the Sun .
42 The argument was that if the right hemisphere can store a representation of the auditory set and compare it with the visual probe letter then there should be an advantage in reaction time to letters presented in the LVF compared to the RVF .
43 This was an uncached design and it was unable to reach the dizzy heights attained by its rivals — compare it with the Western Systems machine which had an identical Conner drive but was cached .
44 Compare it with the signature on the letter .
45 It is perhaps possible to recognize traces of the version of Nicolas of Damascus in the account of Josephus in Bellum Judaicum 1 if we compare it with the much more elaborate story told by Josephus in his Antiquitates Judaicae .
46 The aim , therefore , is to choose the import restriction that would be consistent with the tariff-induced outcome , i.e. the strategic outcome , and compare it with the actual quota imposed by the UK government .
47 The sponsor of the project must evaluate offers and calculate the total cost of using a selected finance package and compare it with the cost of other sources of finance .
48 Once the module has been restored compare it with the module which was reported in the error message using the DCL DIFFERENCE command .
49 Once the module has been restored compare it with the module which was reported in the error message using the DCL DIFFERENCE command .
50 My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that you must er appertain now the actual situation of these plaintiffs and compare it with the situation that would have prevailed if the breaching of contract alleged , had not occurred .
51 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 .
52 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
53 The Warwickshire nature trust is tiny when you compare it to the total amount of woodland managed for sports use .
54 I mean when you compare it to the new one in the which is awful .
55 I du n no , go and compare it to the turd on the floor .
56 compare it against the latest Merc
57 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 .
58 But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system .
59 ‘ 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 .
60 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 .
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