Example sentences of "compared with " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year a total of 24,000 attended compared with 14,500 in 1989/90 . |
| 2 | Or , the effect of a painting may be compared with those of other means of communication , such as photography , film or television . |
| 3 | When this is done , there is a tendency for other artists to be compared with the leader to their disadvantage . |
| 4 | Compared with what we find in Naipaul 's novel , however , Conrad 's Costaguana is a country of the mind : it has the air of having been built to accommodate his meanings . |
| 5 | ‘ Mephitic ’ might be compared with Fraser 's ‘ ulcerous ’ in ‘ Resentment wells up like an ulcerous vapour ’ . |
| 6 | They have their world , not much compared with yours , |
| 7 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 8 | He sets up long , colourful and emotional speeches that are in turn both funny , beautiful and violent , and his work can not be compared with anything that has preceded him . |
| 9 | As Eversley ( 1989 ) has recently shown , while only 2 per cent of Roman catholics hold managerial and professional positions compared with 4 per cent of protestants , they are over-represented in the bottom third of the Northern class structure , but generally within the framework of a traditional dual protestant — catholic labour market . |
| 10 | About 4,600 people in Britain have contracted AIDS , of whom half have died , compared with about 600 four years ago . |
| 11 | When compared with 1985 figures , there was an overall increase of 40% . |
| 12 | The report forecasts that the UK fast food market is set to continue growing through the 1990s at between 5% and 6% at constant prices , compared with 10% value growth in turnover during the mid-1980s . |
| 13 | Two pairs of legs per segment , compared with one for centipedes , the gardener 's allies . |
| 14 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 15 | Although the angle on the blade is quite large when compared with the normal , nevertheless it must be kept well sharpened . |
| 16 | In 1986 , they spent 14.4% of total expenditure on fuel , compared with 7.4% for non-pensioner households . |
| 17 | Nevertheless InterCity cheerfully reveals that the VIP/first-class/full-dining trains contribute by far the largest share of the special-trains earnings — 50 per cent — compared with the 23 per cent from private charters , 18 per cent by standardclass charters , and 5 per cent by the steam market . |
| 18 | If Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet is compared with Balanchine 's Ballet Imperial , it will be seen that Balanchine rarely breaks away from the classical technique as practised in petipa 's day when Tchaikovsky wrote the music . |
| 19 | Nor can it be compared with the ballerina 's dance in Rhapsodie where she wafts to and fro as if in a dream before breaking into her solo . |
| 20 | This can be easily recognised if Bizet 's music for Carmen is compared with De Falla 's fur The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 21 | If his dances are compared with those derived from similar sources by later choreographers , Bournonville 's generalisations of style become evident . |
| 22 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 24 | First , at currents of more than a few amps , capacitors that can carry the current without suffering di/dt stress , heating stress , and MHz ringing tend to be physically large , and expensive compared with normal power supply capacitors . |
| 25 | This delay allows the micro to determine the signal peak value between zero crossings , each being compared with the last one ( IN0 ) and with a threshold value ( THRESHOLD ) . |
| 26 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 27 | Compared with the mysteries surrounding the deaths of President Kennedy or Marilyn Monroe , the controversy surrounding Spandau 's 93-year-old inmate is about as interesting as the fall of a dead leaf . |
| 28 | In its last financial year ending December 1988 , Pearl reported pre-tax profits of £66.2m compared with £48.34m a year earlier . |
| 29 | Annual average consumption in the UK is running at 7.5 kilograms per head compared with 16.8kgs in Germany , 17.5kgs in Italy and 21.5 kgs in France . |
| 30 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |