Example sentences of "be compared to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim 's flight to whatever is to become of him can be compared to the movement of these flowers , and to the Romeward journey in Virgil . |
| 2 | But these costs have to be compared to the high potential throughput of the system . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure the safety advances we have seen recently can be compared to the quantum improvements that came , say , when continuous brakes were first built into trains or when inter-locking signals and points were first introduced . ’ |
| 4 | Although he will always be compared to the Rangers winger Willie Henderson , a diminutive showman who won the hearts of the other Glasgow , Johnstone had more than impudent skill on his side . |
| 5 | The process of evaluating and matching symptom pictures as a whole , which takes place in this more intuitive process , might be compared to the difference between a mathematician and a child when presented with a simple sum such as 4 + 3 . |
| 6 | This can then be compared to the isotopic composition of the material in nature , thus helping to determine the origin of the object . |
| 7 | In all truth , no place in Scotland could be compared to the Gorbals of Glasgow . |
| 8 | The encrusted surfaces of Oulton 's canvases could be compared to the thick layering and tortured reworking of paint in the art of Kossoff or Auerbach , whose paintings evoke a continuous grappling with doubt , like the late works of Titian or Rembrandt . |
| 9 | If one reads nothing else , the account of Oswald 's voyage ( in Act iv , lines 1682–1882 ) should be compared to The Ancient Mariner . |
| 10 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 11 | And what 's more damaging is that everything I do now will always be compared to the past . ’ |
| 12 | How could such predictable junk fare , however hard , be compared to the excitement of conquering Il Duce or Caveman , climbing the tremendous granite routes of Chair Ladder and Bosigran , embarking on any route at Carn Gowla , or even just soloing on the sensuous jug pulling of Sennen — all untamed and wonderfully sculptured cliffs , free from the canker of distracting metal . |
| 13 | The use of ‘ I ’ in soliloquy may be compared to the use of ‘ here ’ in soliloquy . |
| 14 | Among the Dutch paintings on offer are two by Pyke Koch in the style termed Magisch Realisme , which may be compared to the German Neue Sachlichkeit . |
| 15 | What in fact these experiments provide , in the absence of vocal speech , are a series of artificial analogues which can , with interest , be compared to the early learning efforts of perhaps a 2-year-old infant . |
| 16 | To quote Bentham , ‘ The liberty of the press has its inconveniences , but the evil which may result from it is not to be compared to the evil of censorship ’ . |
| 17 | Moreover , through the agency of these men , many Scottish gentlemen found places as midshipmen on board East Indiamen and , with experience gained in that rank , could be advanced in the hierarchy of ship 's officers , although it must be conceded that an appointment as midshipman , or fifth or sixth officer of an Indiaman was not to be compared to the value of a writership or cadetship in the Company 's own service . |
| 18 | If this causes difficulties for some , Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the tendency to inflate the effect of individual agency can only be compared to the position of many Marxisms in which resistance and revolution are hardly the privilege of the individual as such , but rather of collective class action . |
| 19 | The stages in this programme may be compared to the steps of a ladder . |
| 20 | As capital of the avant-garde art scene in Europe , Cologne can be compared to the mouse that roared . |
| 21 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 90 ] = 1.99 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 90 ] = 2.63 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 22 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 133 ] = 1.98 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 133 ] = 2.61 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 23 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 90% , 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 87 ] = 1.66 , p < 0.1 ) , ( z [ df 87 ] = 1.99 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 87 ] = 2.63 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 24 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |
| 25 | This theoretical position can be compared to the ethnomethodological account of social rules ( e.g. Coulter , 1983 ; Garfunkel , 1967 ; Wieder , 1971 ) . |
| 26 | Slop , arising from the assembly of components in their minimum metal condition or due to an estimated wear pattern , can be included to produce positional uncertainty in the mechanism , which can then be compared to the positional requirements necessary for correct operation . |
| 27 | They need to be compared to the evidence of such documents such as the Institute of Race Relations ‘ Policing against Black People ’ with its accounts of police harassment , assault and deaths in custody , and the Anti-Fascist journal Searchlight 's files on racial assaults on black people by the civilian population . |
| 28 | In one view , the ‘ imaginary war ’ must continue , substituting new adversaries for the cold war enemy and in this sense the Gulf war would be compared to the Korean war — as the conflict which defines the new world order . |
| 29 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 30 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |