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

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1 Unfortunately , the surviving harpsichord by Hitchcock has lost its stop knobs : it would have been most useful to compare them with the painting .
2 A broader academic aim is to relate the effects identified to other processes of retail change and to compare them with the impact of other major developments .
3 The champions have tremendous belief in their own ability , and while it 's premature to compare them with the great Kilkenny sides they look well enough equipped to retain their title .
4 However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document .
5 It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition .
6 does that compare them with the customers ?
7 They compared them with the names on the above catalogue and with those on two other farm catalogues , one dated 1873 , the other 1919 .
8 Once this is decided , you can look at your original operational requirements and compare them to the products in the representative 's portfolio .
9 Good locks are n't cheap … unless you compare them with the sort of loss and distress even a minor burglary can cause .
10 All we 've got to do is to take his fingerprints and compare them with the beauties on this envelope .
11 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 .
12 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 " .
13 We shall examine the results of his experiments and compare them with the results that we would expect if the records were perfectly randomized .
14 Compare them with the main reasons supporting the argument .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time .
21 Their size can be assessed by comparing them with the original spread in the chronic sickness rates ; this will be discussed at length in the next section .
22 Researchers from the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment spent FOUR YEARS examining case histories of child deaths in the area and comparing them with the rest of the country .
23 Initially , we examined the main effect of phonological processing by combining the results from the two experimental tasks and comparing them with the control tasks .
24 In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words .
25 The significance of these percentages can be gauged by comparing them with the South East 's share of total manufacturing which stood then at about 27 per cent .
26 Process control consists of checking items as they progress through the production process , comparing them with the relevant standards , and taking any immediate corrective action to prevent further faults .
27 This will be achieved by analysing the criteria used to select expert system applications and comparing them with the criteria used to evaluate the feasibility of traditional data processing projects .
28 Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign .
29 Right , what what we 'll do is I mean we can confuse the Chow test looking at the residual sum of squares er from each of these sums as the regressions on sub samples , comparing them with the residual sum of squares on a regressionary of the whole sample and the computer will actually do it for us .
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