Example sentences of "compare with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the superior economic performance of the northern United States compared with the south , political economists had a simple explanation ( now vigorously disputed by economic historians ) : slavery . |
| 2 | First , looking at hardware spending plans this year , the review shows cutbacks in the UK , the US , France , Canada and Spain compared with the year before . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 4 | Between 1983 and 1989 , the latest period for which comparable figures are available , more than twice as many jobs were created in Britain compared with the rest of the EC . |
| 5 | Chronic superficial gastritis was the commonest histological abnormality regardless of NSAID intake ; similar numbers of patients with this abnormality , who were also postive for H pylori , wre identified by Helico-G and Biolab Malakit compared with the standard ( or biopsy related ) tests . |
| 6 | But what he said had little effect on Sally-Anne compared with the sight of his face at last . |
| 7 | A committed runner himself and one of the original running shoe repair specialists , Davis claims that compared with the boom years of the mid-eighties fewer people now look to the skills of the cobbler . |
| 8 | All that was a drop in the Clyde compared with the crowd at Celtic Park in April 1898 , when 50,000 turned up to see THE game … and the rest ! |
| 9 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 10 | Nothing here to compare with the vision of a Leonardo da Vinci or the breathtaking intellectual feats of an Einstein . |
| 11 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 12 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 13 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 14 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 15 | Although there is nothing in the early Merovingian period to compare with the concern shown by the eighth-century Anglo-Saxons as to what constituted the prohibited degrees of marriage , there was considerable worry about uncanonical sexual relations . |
| 16 | We chose all our services in London — knock ten per cent off to compare with the rest of Britain . |
| 17 | Market buildings , in particular , have proved especially elusive in the small towns and there is little to compare with the forum or macellum of the cities . |
| 18 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |
| 19 | There was little in the West to compare with the fanaticism shown by Eastern monks or lay people as well as bishops over the minutiae of dogma . |
| 20 | Of course , not all strategic options are of that type , but , where they are , this approach may at least get one into the right position for estimating the cash benefits to compare with the investment outlay . |
| 21 | But how do they compare with the damage caused by other energy sources ? |
| 22 | How does it compare with the country as a whole ? |
| 23 | How do these results compare with the government 's conventional cash-based accounts ? |
| 24 | When someone who was putting on the records said : ‘ Fourth movement , called The Storm , ’ I wondered how the music would compare with the storm outside . |
| 25 | We got better food in the RAF than most people in wartime Britain but it did n't compare with the Darrowby fare . |
| 26 | How does this compare with the practice in British domestic legislation ? |
| 27 | This does not compare with the ease of reference to actual original documentation in the manual system outlined earlier in this chapter . |
| 28 | Whilst the company had grown significantly during the Wadeville years little could compare with the move to Germiston . |
| 29 | The saltings also provide winter feeding areas for flocks of finches and pipits , although the numbers are not large compared with the winter finch flocks of downland and shingle beaches . |
| 30 | Overall , the number of truly adherent isolates ( defined as those which attached to >40% of the cells ) in the control group compared with the colitis groups ( one of 23 control versus 15 of 101 colitics ) was not significantly different ( χ 2 =1.84 , p=0.18 ) ; similarly , no difference was evident when the ulcerative colitis patients were analysed with respect to disease activity . |