Example sentences of "[noun] compare [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | Jesus compared himself to the bridegroom . |
| 3 | Mandelbrot compares it with the phenomenon of scaling noises . |
| 4 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 5 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 6 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 7 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |