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

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1 He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area .
2 They have determined the number of BL Lac objects per unit volume of space , and compared it with the space density of quasars and other types of active galaxies ( submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ) .
3 First they measured the background — the number of gamma rays in the natural environment such as those produced by the concrete in the laboratory and compared it with the number of gamma rays when the electrochemical cell was present .
4 The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states .
5 She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid .
6 The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession .
7 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 .
8 He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen .
9 A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun .
10 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 ) .
11 Others have compared it to the sensitivity of the medium and the magnetism of the hypnotist . ’
12 The hobbyist 's name ‘ Quetzal ’ compares it to the Central American bird of that name almost legendary for its fabulous colours .
13 Mandelbrot compares it with the phenomenon of scaling noises .
14 THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ .
15 The author charts this progress and compares it with the British decision to choose the advanced gas cooled reactor ( AGR ) in 1965 .
16 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 .
17 But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily !
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Compare it with the sentence : ‘ That sensation is excited in our minds by the presence to our organs of any one of numerous objects . ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Compare it with the signature on the letter .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Once the module has been restored compare it with the module which was reported in the error message using the DCL DIFFERENCE command .
29 Once the module has been restored compare it with the module which was reported in the error message using the DCL DIFFERENCE command .
30 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 .
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