Example sentences of "compare with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In doing all of this , we were in good or maybe bad company depending upon how you view it , for example Halla Burton had special charges last year of a hundred and eighty seven million dollars which compared with a hundred and eighty two million dollars of special charges the previous year and Baker Hughes similarly had charges of eighty million dollars and sixty million dollars .
2 Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level .
3 DEC paid well over the odds for the shares — Olivetti says that 28.53m shares were sold to DEC at 4,547.4 lire per share , which compared with a lowly 1,340 lire price in the market at the time of the transaction .
4 In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output .
5 Conklin ( 1977 : 4 ) estimates that in 1977 these four offences in the USA accounted for between $3–4 billions compared with the annual loss of around $40 billions resulting from various white-collar crime , of which consumer fraud , illegal competition , and deceptive practices account for at least half .
6 One was regional : the metropolitan dynamism of the South-east and the Midlands compared with the sluggish tendencies of Lancashire and Yorkshire .
7 The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families .
8 Menshevik critics of the regime claimed that compared with the prerevolutionary period Russia in 1922 had 30 per cent fewer schools overall and that 70 per cent of all children between 8 and 11 years of age were illiterates .
9 Menshevik critics of the regime claimed that compared with the pre-revolutionary period Russia in 1922 had 30 per cent fewer schools overall and that 70 per cent of all children between 8 and 11 years of age were illiterate .
10 The chart on the next page shows how industrial production has fared since last July compared with the past three recessions .
11 Sales volumes fell 0.2% in June compared with the previous month .
12 Real public spending since 1979 will have shown an average growth rate of 1.4% per annum compared with an annual rate of 1% under the previous Labour administration .
13 This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword .
14 The first important modern paintings sale of the year held by Guy Loudmer on 16 February contained nothing to compare with the outstanding works featured in his sales during the height of the speculative boom two or three years ago .
15 Indeed , they demonstrate little interest in or carry any vim into their academic work ; certainly nothing to compare with the avid desire for technique and expertise many take to the sports field .
16 Skye has no other scenic attractions to compare with the Black Cuillin but deserving of special mention is the capital , Portree , a bonny little town , and further north along the coast the Storr and its Old Man , conspicuous on the skyline .
17 Dublin may have a healthy homegrown vibe , but it wo n't produce a hybrid post-dance noise to compare with the messed up trance of , say , Happy Mondays .
18 But for the sheer number of performances , there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals .
19 NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in .
20 I consider the most likely candidate for forgery is therefore an unknown cylinder or an unknown acetate disc — in other words , a one-off , which would be difficult to compare with the genuine article , because there would be nothing with which to compare it .
21 Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier .
22 Dressing-up crazes and the appearance of huge inflatables suggest the stirrings of a new culture of spectatorship but there is nothing to compare with the Italian spectacle .
23 The CSO perspective is one that involves producing a market scenario to compare with the observed mixed economy that exists .
24 Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park .
25 erm Architecturally I suppose it does n't compare with a mediaeval university .
26 erm architecturally I suppose it does n't compare with a medieval university .
27 As an exercise for the legs , Whernside excels but in immediate interest can not compare with the neighbouring Ingleborough and Penyghent .
28 It is not a serious one for the discipline , nor even in human terms does it compare with the undesirable side-effects of technological innovations in practical life and scientific research .
29 First , to what extent are the experiences of women actually represented in the study of these life-areas ; secondly , how does this representation compare with the empirical role of women in social life ; and , lastly , do the subject categorizations themselves make sense from the perspective of women 's particular situation ?
30 Nothing , however , could compare with the wholesale carnage committed by men among the short-tailed , or sooty , petrel , known to the sealers as the mutton bird .
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