Example sentences of "[subord] compare [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , small private and club aircraft accidents are frequently more difficult to investigate because compared with the scheduled passenger transport flight the route to be followed and the flight procedures carried out are far less definitive and predictable . |
| 2 | Second , both policies represented a welfare loss when compared with the optimal tariff and equivalent quota policies , with the relative welfare loss from the UK quota policy being greater than that from the EC policy ( -5.98% as opposed to -2.18% ) . |
| 3 | The text of the 1905 Convention is much fuller when compared with the terse formulation of its predecessor , and it contains a number of changes of principle . |
| 4 | However using the lexicon car , cars , cat , cats , do , dog , dogs , done , ear , ears , eat , eats ( after Appel and Jacobson ) , the features of the dawg can be clearly demonstrated , especially when compared with the equivalent trie . |
| 5 | Even when compared with the 1983 landslide victory , the Conservative share of the vote increased in the South East ( including Greater London ) , East Anglia , West Midlands and East Midlands , and registered only a marginal decline in the South West ( albeit with a share of the vote still in excess of 50 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Several of the major accounts appeared to be excessively overdue when compared with the total ledger aged debt statistics . |
| 7 | The cost of hardware is often small when compared with the real cost of software which includes not only the purchase cost but also the staff time of the organisation in which it is to be installed . |
| 8 | When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range . |
| 9 | The stomach now appears more distended when compared with the fasted sequence and powerful pyloric contraction can be seen ( arrowed ) . |
| 10 | The sporadic model was definitely ruled out when compared with the multifactorial model ( χ 2 =17.05 ) . |
| 11 | However , these problems of task allocation were all minor when compared with the driving force behind the system : getting the tasks completed as quickly and with as few staff as possible . |
| 12 | Although the combination of cisapride and ranitidine significantly increased amplitude , duration , and propagation velocity of oesophageal contractions , the changes in oesophageal motility seem small when compared with the considerable reduction in acid reflux . |
| 13 | Harsh criticism was also levelled at Contributions Agency staff , especially when compared with the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | The manager must be able to act decisively by , for example , bringing in more lower paid staff to assist in mundane areas thus increasing productivity when compared with the same work being done at more senior level . |
| 15 | Consequently , many retailers in the run-up to Christmas were looking at poor weekly sales figures when compared with the same week in 1991 . |
| 16 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 17 | It still remains true , however , that when compared with the white population , black people have worse housing conditions . |
| 18 | However , good and indispensable as personal libraries are , they are of necessity puny when compared with the whole store of human knowledge . |
| 19 | This record becomes even more impressive when compared with the previous year in which the Brent Charlie MMSC team recorded a disappointing 10 LTIs . |
| 20 | The lower intensity signal of the control mouse NF-H gene relative to that of the NF-L transgene when compared to the two month old mice is consistant with the known early expression of NF-L during development . |
| 21 | Having avidly watched the US Open and then The Open on BBC , I was again disappointed to see what little imagination went into the BBC production when compared to the rival production from America . |
| 22 | The quantity of facilities provided for the exclusive use of pedestrians is significant , particularly when compared to the low level of provision available for the other green mode , cycling . |
| 23 | In contrast , the α-truncated polymerases produce a differential footprint for the open complex when compared to the wild-type enzyme . |
| 24 | Fig. 3 shows that the deletion of the upstream promoter ( -2300bp to -300bp ) enhances the expression of NF-L when compared to the Thy-1 control . |
| 25 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 26 | This effect has actually been observed by comparing a clock on the ground with one in a commercial airliner ; the clock in the airliner runs slightly slow when compared to the stationary clock . |
| 27 | The sudden stilling of the wind brought with it a silence so total when compared to the continual cacophony of the past hours that the shock of it , for a moment , held Mariana and Trent immobile . |
| 28 | However , these irritations perhaps paled into insignificance when compared to the British position . |
| 29 | When compared to the relational algebra , the relational calculus is more oriented towards expressing the user requests in a way that the user may construct . |
| 30 | One criticism , particularly when compared to the relational calculus , is that it is somewhat procedural and the user will need some programming experience to be able to formulate a particular request . |