Example sentences of "[adj] compare with the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For the Sun and the Daily Mirror , where it is possible to compare with the numbers in 1978 , both show significant increases — the Sun from thirty-two to forty-nine and the Daily Mirror , even more , from twenty-six to forty-five .
2 Market buildings , in particular , have proved especially elusive in the small towns and there is little to compare with the forum or macellum of the cities .
3 How does this compare with the precautions needed for other file organizations ?
4 How does this compare with the practice in British domestic legislation ?
5 What do you see as the role of Government in promoting UK exports and how do you feel this compares with the support received by other European businesses ?
6 This compares with the average of 16% in the U.K. as a whole .
7 Thus , assuming that a single 65W tube costs £2 , the expected hourly depreciation cost over its expected lifetime is 0.027ph-1 ; this compares with the energy consumption of 0.21ph-1 if electricity is charged at 3.2pkWh-1 .
8 This compares with the analysis done by the business units which tends to be more detailed , operational and more concerned with the competitor 's performance in individual markets .
9 As , which is approximately true for large values of r , the value of equation ( 6.20 ) tends to This compares with the value if records are stored in random order .
10 In adapting it to a.c. operation , Heydweiller found it necessary to incorporate the extra variable resistor of resistance R 2 compared with the Carey Foster version .
11 This compared with the $100 per tonne prediction for the end of the century being made by the CEGB at the time of the 1983–5 Sizewell B Inquiry .
12 But the aim is to discover not merely whether there is more radioactivity in the brains of the trained compared with the control chicks , but just where in the brain it is located .
13 One region , with the dog-latin anatomical name Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale ( henceforward , IMHV ) , and another , the Lobus Parolfactorius ( henceforth LPO ) , ‘ lit up ’ in the trained compared with the control animals ( Fig 10.2 ) .
14 The location of the environment is immaterial compared with the language environment , the breadth of knowledge of teaching staff and the peer group , and the fluency of communication .
15 The London-based committee was in contact with ministers , tried hard to persuade the island legislatures to initiate measures of amelioration to make the West Indian position more tenable in British eyes and managed to raise some petitions on slavery 's behalf , though few compared with the abolitionist flood .
16 However , the cost of these trips is minimal compared with the cost of an executive 's failure in an overseas assignment .
17 Available geological data from these areas suggest that uplift and removal of section ( in Hercynian and later episodes ) has been minimal compared with the rest of the area .
18 It is often argued that the costs of regulation are front-end loaded , with the majority of costs being met with the startup of the SROs , subsequent running costs being minimal compared with the turnover of most financial institutions .
19 The little ones with their mothers were , I think , fortunate compared with the others .
20 The high growth of the real money stock after 1979 compared with the growth of real GDP is partly reflected in the high rate of inflation during the 1980s — an annual average of 9.3 per cent , compared with 2 per cent growth of real GDP .
21 How do these compare with the achievements of boys ?
22 It 's really elaborate compared with the simplicity of the furniture is n't it .
23 The workers in section 61 were angry because they felt , firstly , that the quotas of production allocated to white workers were unfair compared with the quota allocated to them ; secondly , because conditions of work were different for Asian workers — their washing times , lunch breaks and toilet breaks were restricted ; and thirdly because , although most of the workers were Asians , the union branch had an overwhelmingly white shop steward 's committee ( there was only one Asian shop steward ) which was not only uninterested in their struggles but actively opposed to them .
24 Conservatives complain that interviews with them were broadcast out of peak time and that the programme 's interview with Mr Kinnock was soft compared with the grilling of Mr Major .
25 But , once it has spread so that its dimensions parallel to the wall are large compared with the boundary layer thickness , the motion over most of its area closely resembles that in a fully turbulent boundary layer to be described in Sections 21.5 and 21.6 .
26 The saltings also provide winter feeding areas for flocks of finches and pipits , although the numbers are not large compared with the winter finch flocks of downland and shingle beaches .
27 Much of the information can be derived from studies of dilute solutions ; an absolute measurement of polymer chain size can be obtained from light scattering , when the polymer is large compared with the wavelength of the incident light .
28 Fortunately , the direct e.m.f. is usually very large compared with the input potential difference ( ; 0.6 V for a silicon transistor ) so that to a fair approximation .
29 Up the long stone stairs from the kitchen , into the green enclosed light of the pantry passage , then on up the next staircase , its turns mean and sudden compared with the twin sweeps of the main stairs , Nicandra plodded her careful way to Aunt Tossie 's bedroom door .
30 If the green is weak compared with the red , trouble is afoot .
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