Example sentences of "[subord] compare with 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 | Holidays in the United States of America are increasingly popular , and here the public power supply comes at a different voltage and frequency ( 110 volts 60 Hz ) as compared with the European standard of 230/240 volts 50 Hz . |
| 21 | The face of death offered different features to the Victorian family , as compared with the contemporary scene ; for them , death was not a taboo subject . |
| 22 | They are also helpful if they are arranged so that you are paid on or before the date of delivery of your goods or services as compared with the usual 40- to 70-day wait for your cheque . |
| 23 | Both US and Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Europe were to be eliminated entirely , without reference to the British and French deterrents ( this was a concession as compared with the Soviet position at Geneva ) ; and discussions should start immediately on the elimination of such missiles from Asia , and on shorter-range or tactical missiles . |
| 24 | But in the general debate on privatisation , he illustrated the higher Civil Service 's preference for the first-class generalist with a philosophic overview as compared with the grubby technician . |
| 25 | Now there 's been a lot of talk about the need to revive employment in Harrogate , and erm the possible future regeneration of the North Yorkshire economy as compared with the existing concern of Leeds and other authorities to regenerate the West Yorkshire authority . |
| 26 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 27 | ( In early January a high-level US defence advisory group had recommended that the USA should reduce its warheads to 5,000 , as compared with the current stock of 11,000 and the 9,000 permitted under START — see p. 38320 . ) |
| 28 | The lead is now sent to the Minsterley terminus of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool branch line , but if the Bishop 's Castle Railway were completed the ore destined for South Wales would be conveyed from Churchstoke Station via Craven Arms and the Central Wales Railway , thus effecting a saving of twenty miles in transit as compared with the present route . |
| 29 | It was an oscillating mechanism involving an extra wheel , as compared with the verge-and-foliot system . |
| 30 | One gain might come from the elimination of the discount in Gencor 's share price as compared with the total value of its subsidiaries — a discount that has recently been as high as 4 billion rand . |