Example sentences of "compare with [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 2 | The porcelain produced at Chelsea was said to compare with Dresden 's fine china and there was always keen competition amongst dealers who waited at the doors to purchase pieces as soon as they emerged from the ovens . |
| 3 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 4 | Compared with Burton 's or that of Sir John Gell [ q.v. ] for 1659 his diary is somewhat slight , but as the only internal account and commentary on the debates it has unique value . |
| 5 | Mark Lees , the Cambridge coach , knows the Light Blues face a serious deficit of talent this year , compared with Oxford 's three world bronze medallists and strong supporting cast . |
| 6 | George was a small man compared with Lennie 's massive bulk . |
| 7 | That represents £5,960 per horse ( compared with Pipe 's £3,925 ) . |
| 8 | And in terms of prize-money per run , Nicholson 's owners have earned £1,525 compared with Pipe 's £1,183 . |
| 9 | Its defence document posted yesterday claims the bid has no industrial logic and undervalues USH whose share price closed at 152p compared with Meggitt 's 134p a share offer and 151p partial cash alternaive . |
| 10 | We may well wonder whether the ambiguity in the word servus does not hide a fundamental ambiguity running right through the period ; and if we had asked the abbot of Saint-Germain , he might have answered that the servitude of serf and slave alike was a small matter compared with man 's servitude , since the Fall , to the devil ; and that all men were slaves . |
| 11 | She had been too busy looking after people to pay much attention to the way her life was going , but compared with Lottie 's life and his brother and sister-in-law 's , theirs had been very humdrum . |
| 12 | Neither did his eagerness to oppose the Pilgrims of Grace in 1536–7 , which must be compared with Dacre 's expedient withdrawal to London and with the discrete disappearance of Sir Thomas ( later first Baron ) Wharton [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | As Hollywood kept on discovering at its own expense — and this was a relatively costly movie compared with Nicholson 's previous works — good and successful literature does not necessary transfer easily to the big screen . |
| 14 | And now societies still interested in the conversion possibility will be carefully weighing up the reception given to the Guardian scheme compared with Abbey 's . |
| 15 | Compared with BBC 's recent Sunday romp A Time To Dance the Lovejoy romance was highly affecting . |
| 16 | The table of the Nations in Genesis 10 reminds us of the map of Anaximander ; the Book of Job , probably an exilic work , has often been compared with Aeschylus ' Prometheus . |
| 17 | This compared with Salter 's figure of £850 . |
| 18 | The number of phonemes correctly identified by RM1 can not be directly compared with HWIM 's figures since the phoneme lattice in HWIM essentially had a label for every phoneme in the system , given as a matrix of probability scores . |
| 19 | The New Zealand backline looked erratic compared with England 's , but the New Zealanders are better players than Hamilton would suggest . |
| 20 | The population of France was perhaps as high as 20 million , compared with England 's 4.5 million , and the extent of the lands over which the French king claimed suzerainty , together with the richness of their agricultural resources , made France potentially the wealthiest kingdom in western Europe . |
| 21 | In the event France sent 10,000 ground troops ( compared with Britain 's 45,000 ) . |
| 22 | ( A weakness is his habit of repeating lines merely for this purpose : Heine 's Allnächtlich im Traume , not to be compared with Schumann 's setting , suffers badly in this respect . ) |
| 23 | Compared with Mitroff 's earlier paper , there is much more emphasis here on linking stakeholder analysis with research into cognitive schemas , and a greater recognition that there may be problems both in identifying the schemas , often held unconsciously , and in bringing them together to inform the corporate debate about strategy . |
| 24 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |
| 25 | By 1842 France had only 350 route miles and by 1850 only I , 870 , compared with Germany 's 3,735 miles and Britain 's 6,621 . |
| 26 | But these are humdrum mid-life crises when compared with America 's presidential wannabes and has-beens . |
| 27 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 28 | Even the figure of the men actually under arms — which Polybius gives as two hundred and ten thousand for 225 B.C. — can hardly be compared with Hannibal 's army unless it is properly analysed . |
| 29 | Western observers argued that Gorbachev 's stronger power base and his age ( 58 compared with Khrushchev 's 70 in 1964 ) made him less vulnerable to a coup than his reformist predecessor . |
| 30 | The DECpc AXP/150 is priced at £5,350 , which sounds expensive compared with DEC 's two new Pentium ready models , DECpc DT and DECpc MTE , priced at £1,395 and £2,095 respectively , especially as almost all the software for it has to run in emulation mode using Insignia Solutions Ltd 's SoftPC , which provides support for MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows applications . |