Example sentences of "comparing [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 2 | Much to the disappointment of the Board , surveys conducted in 1940 produced negative results : typical of them was the meticulous investigation , in late 1940 , of a group of 1,119 London County Council children evacuated to rural areas ; comparing them with an equivalent group of London children in 1938 , the study concluded that ‘ a period of evacuation of several months did not cause any significant difference in the rate of growth of evacuated children ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 8 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 9 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 10 | The reader may like to reflect on his/her own planning approach and assess its validity by comparing it with the following checklist of factors which facilitate effective planning . |
| 11 | By estimating the expected number of each chromosome and comparing it with the observed number , any significant departures can be recorded . |
| 12 | As the title implies , it begins with a basic description of action research within the educational context , comparing it with the natural science and historical/sociological research traditions , termed empiricist and interpretive . |
| 13 | It follows that if we know the exact pitch of the siren , it is theoretically possible to work out how fast we are moving towards or away from it simply by listening to the apparent pitch and comparing it with the known " true " pitch . |
| 14 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |