Example sentences of "compared with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The increase in robbery was 9 per cent. , compared with a police total of 62 per cent . |
| 2 | Until then the Greeks believed that recent events were unimportant compared with the exploits of the heroes in Trojan times . |
| 3 | But any gloom on the grain front is as nothing compared with the problems for the oilseed rape harvest . |
| 4 | Problems with representing the segmental record of the words spoken pale into insignificance compared with the problems of representing the suprasegmental record ( details of intonation and rhythm ) . |
| 5 | Economic growth is usually measured in terms of GNP and though this presents some problems they pale into insignificance when compared with the problems involved in the definitions of education which have included literacy rates , school enrolment rates , university attendance rates , expenditure on education , and so on . |
| 6 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 7 | To determine the effect of cholecystectomy , the women who had had this operation were compared with the women who were discovered on ultrasonography to have gall stones ( n=48 , aged 25 to 67 , mean 45 ) , all but three of whom were asymptomatic . |
| 8 | Years 4 and 5 of the MPhys together provide increased breadth and depth of study , compared with the Honours BSc . |
| 9 | To take this into account , economists measure ‘ real commodity prices ’ — the Third World 's export prices compared with the prices of manufactured goods . |
| 10 | The subjects with influenza B showed a 19% increase in the reaction time for the 10 minute version of the variable fore period simple reaction time test when compared with the controls ( symptomatic value 440 ( SD 82 ) ms , control value 369 ( SD 79 ) ms , p<0.05 ) . |
| 11 | Out study is broadly in agreement with those previously reported observations , with the exception that our patients had longer durations of contraction compared with the controls in contrast to the findings of Gill et al . |
| 12 | The study that gall bladder bile from cholesterol gall stone patients had a higher concentration of mucin despite a similar total protein concentration compared with the controls supports this possibility . |
| 13 | Those unfamiliar with Berlin are , for the moment , at no disadvantage compared with the natives . |
| 14 | About how much larger are the modern supertankers compared with the tankers of 20 years ago ? |
| 15 | Contrasts in tessellation within the same mosaic are insignificant however when compared with the contrasts between the mosaics themselves . |
| 16 | But he was poor when compared with the parents of many of the children who attended his school , even when compared with some of the other teachers . |
| 17 | Despite having 48 North West seats , compared with the Conservatives ’ 29 and the Liberal Democrats ' two , Labour was bitterly disappointed by its performance . |
| 18 | Compared with the figures on page 26 cars are particularly likely to be financed by loans from banks or finance companies ; clothes , presents and luxury goods to be bought on mail order , and rarely financed by HP or loans ; and , as might be expected , domestic appliances to be bought using fuel board credit ( see Appendix I , Table 17 ) . |
| 19 | In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways . |
| 20 | Compared with the railways , the press network suffered very little from corruption or abuse . |
| 21 | Compared with the railways they were inflexible , unreliable and far from effectively networked . |
| 22 | When benefits have been claimed they have been small compared with the resources employed . |
| 23 | Wealth , rank , life itself then seemed cheap to me , compared with the interests of ( what I believed to be ) the truth , and the will of my maker . |
| 24 | Where the sediments are fine-grained the leaves form fossils of exquisite beauty , preserving even the finest veins , which can be directly compared with the leaves of their living relatives . |
| 25 | Seeds of Acer are rare compared with the leaves , which can be found in rocks dating back to the Cretaceous period . |
| 26 | Here , they were inspired by the energy produced by their exchange of ideas and approaches compared with the limitations of painting alone . |
| 27 | In the mid-1970s it was selling around thirty thousand copies compared with the Times 's sixty thousand . |
| 28 | The little ones with their mothers were , I think , fortunate compared with the others . |
| 29 | There are times and situations where one method becomes favourite compared with the others because of seasonal circumstances and variations in the terrain . |
| 30 | Finally , lack of exercise is also a risk factor for heart disease but it 's relatively small when compared with the others . |