Example sentences of "were compared with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Referrals from GPs were compared with other referrals focusing particularly on women .
2 The validity of the LIT is based upon the existing research which supports imitation as an index of a child 's knowledge of grammar and the high correlations obtained when scores on the LIT were compared with other measures of language production .
3 Predictions about outcomes were compared with actual results with a view to learning from experience and thus improving future investment decisions .
4 The findings were compared with 42 age and sex matched controls .
5 Standardised mortality ratios ( SMR ) were compared with one another by χ 2 2 tests .
6 When sensory thresholds in patients over 50 were compared with sensory thresholds in patients under 50 , no significant difference was found either before or after operation ( Fig 5 ) .
7 These were compared with similar figures derived previously from the orthopaedic departments of 17 district hospitals randomly situated throughout England .
8 The patients were compared with 18 healthy volunteers ( 11 women and seven men , with a mean age of 33 years , range 21 to 64 ) .
9 485 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome were compared with 1800 control infants .
10 The cases were compared with 1800 control infants , who were randomly selected from all births in the study regions , except home births ( less than 1% ) .
11 Fifty consecutive referrals in 1988 were compared with 50 consecutive referrals in 1990 with respect to demographic characteristics and patterns of drug misuse .
12 The royal martyr 's sufferings were compared with those of Christ , ‘ Blessed Lord ’ , ran the central prayer at Matins ,
13 The numbers of deaths were compared with those expected from national rates for men of corresponding age and year of birth .
14 When those patients with none or one recorded diabetes related problem were compared with those with two or more problems they were found to have significantly better control .
15 When those patients attending a practice with more than 10 items ( n=173 ) were compared with those with 10 or fewer ( n=135 ) they showed significantly better diabetic control .
16 The other significant finding was that when the eleven patients receiving clozapine and extra psychotropic medication were compared with those on clozapine alone , the latter showed deterioration in logical memory ( the ability to memorize a passage , and repeat it in logical order ) .
17 To assess the degree to which this occurred comments in the potential risks condition from each five second section were compared with those from the description condition over the same five seconds .
18 In our previous immunohistochemical study , the mucosal IgG subclass proportions of 10 ulcerative colitis patients were compared with those of eight Crohn 's colitis patients , but no normal counts were available for comparison at that time .
19 The features of these patients were compared with those of patients without calculi .
20 Data were compared with those obtained in 18 normal subjects .
21 The results of these tests were compared with those in age and sex matched patients with DU and with H pylori infection .
22 To evaluate the possibility of bias in the group with follow up , the data from the initial history and physical examination of the 90 children in whom we obtained a follow up were compared with those from the 84 children with no follow up .
23 These results were compared with those from age and sex matched control patients with normal renal function with ( n=9 ) and without ( n=9 ) H pylori infection .
24 Symptoms were compared with those before treatment and were scored as follows : ( 0 ) no symptoms ; ( 1 ) major symptoms cured , patient pleased with result of treatment ; ( 2 ) some improvement , patient not wholly satisfied with result of treatment ; ( 3 ) no change in symptoms .
25 In 40 of the 55 patients , biopsy of the flat mucosa was repeated during one of these subsequent surveillance examinations and the proliferative patterns found in these samples were compared with those of the baseline biopsy samples .
26 Serum IGF-I , IGFBP-1 , and insulin concentrations were compared with those obtained from 29 age and sex matched controls selected from a large study of normal adolescents previously reported .
27 The results were compared with those for two widely used conventional hypertonic ORS , WHO-ORS ( 331 mOsm/kg ) and UK-ORS ( 310 mOsm/kg ) .
28 These results are consistent with scintigraphic evidence of a delay in oesophageal transit of a radiolabelled liquid meal in PSS patients with impaired peristalsis and of fewer but more prolonged episodes of postprandial reflux when PSS patients were compared with those with normal peristalsis and equally severe oesophagitis .
29 The results were compared with those obtained when culturing colonic specimens in the absence of the lymphocyte preparation .
30 Their clinical features were compared with those of CF patients with the F508/F508 , W1282X/W1282X , W1282X/F508 mutations , which are known to be associated with a severe disease .
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