Example sentences of "compared to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torpedo Moscow are on £80 a man to win — a huge amount of money by their standards , even if it is buttons compared to the wealth of United 's £4,000-a-week stars . |
| 2 | In the category , ‘ crimes of dishonesty ’ , the province was considerably more honest than England and Wales and a paragon of virtue compared to the United States . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the United States ' courts can put more teeth into the State Farm ‘ list ’ through their greater concern for the provision of reasons and a filly developed record as compared to the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | The second effect is the inferior performance of the CED when compared to the OALD . |
| 5 | The Pacific countries are now America 's largest trading partner — they first outstripped the Europeans in 1985 , when they sold goods worth $121 billions to the United States , compared to the $116 billions'-worth that came from Southampton , Marseilles , Rotterdam and Hamburg . |
| 6 | On football pools the odds of becoming a millionare are much better , and they 're a virtual certainty compared to the chance of winning the £250,000 Premium Bond prize . |
| 7 | Valencia 's 1–0 victory , which dented Barcelona 's chances of overhauling Real Madrid at the top of the table , was almost incidental compared to the performance of Mr Garcia de Loza . |
| 8 | These results are very encouraging when compared to the performance of more traditional , hand-built , grammars created without the benefit of a corpus to learn from . |
| 9 | Certainly , compared to the Rothschild days , it had run out of steam . |
| 10 | During that same period of time Italy 's average growth in industrial production has been four percent , compared to the U K's one point nine . |
| 11 | One life is nothing compared to the survival of our system . |
| 12 | If the noise from the uninhibited , cheering , stamping , singing 8,3000 crowd had felt intimidating to Sampras when the fourth set score reached 5–3 and he was also trailing by two sets to one , it was nothing compared to the tumult during the changeover after the American had held the 9th game to 15 , with an ace . |
| 13 | Compared to the GLC 's plan to make London immune to all-out thermonuclear war by placing signs on lamp posts , it was small beer . |
| 14 | Compared to the bungalow the tack room was a miracle of neatness . |
| 15 | Antoine Bloye is a negative exemplary narrative which seeks to highlight the hollowness and sterility of a fragmented petty-bourgeois existence compared to the authenticity of working-class solidarity . |
| 16 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 17 | And probably the most important factor of all , until the beginning of March 1982 ( the Argentine invasion of the islands took place on 2 April ) , the Falklands was very much a ‘ backburner ’ issue compared to the EEC budget , the Middle East , pressure on defence-spending , the NATO decision to deploy cruise missiles , and a host of other apparently more pressing concerns , as the Franks Report makes clear : |
| 18 | that was — uh hu — ‘ expensive ’ — well at least they — can — get hold of ‘ loose ’ tickets … over here you have to buy a package with trip , hotel and tickets for the three first games — comes in around GBP 1400 which might not be that bad compared to the price you mention . |
| 19 | She says I would like to go up to Manchester soon and I 'm hoping my car is on the road because the trains to Manchester are pretty costly compared to the price of the petrol in my car . |
| 20 | It has a recommended price in the United States of US$350 and is sold in the UK for £399.95 ( compared to the UK SelecTronics ' Bible price of £299.95 ) . |
| 21 | According to the survey , carried out by MORI for the Woolwich Building Society , the average monthly mortgage repayment in the province is £130 , compared to the UK average of £236 . |
| 22 | But those are nothing compared to the effects of crime on the victims , particularly elderly ones . |
| 23 | These injuries , severe and painful though they were , are only a small part of the story when compared to the effects of the severe closed head injury . |
| 24 | The subunit composition of the purified endonucleases was investigated and compared to the level of subunit production in minicells . |
| 25 | The beetles , wasps , and squirrels that feast upon the oak tree are minuscule , compared to the tree itself . |
| 26 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , compared to the leave they get in the big houses I suppose it is ; half a day a month for some of them , and then no leave at all if they 're known to come from the workhouse , or one of the settlements . |
| 28 | I would also be interested to know what other paths they had walked and what their perceptions were of these compared to the Staffordshire Way . |
| 29 | There has been modest improvement in this situation as a result of the establishment of select committees but secrecy is still a significant feature of the British executive , especially compared to the American . |
| 30 | The passive role of the black family in the children 's sport jars with the discordance of a cracked bell when compared to the part played by the white family , usually a source of encouragement from which affirmative , strengthening and , when necessary , consoling influences come . |