Example sentences of "by comparing [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 3 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 4 | Eventually the children will understand , for example , that four is greater than three by comparing a set of four things with a set of three things . |
| 5 | According to this model we recognize objects by comparing a list of basic elements of the visual image , like lines , edges , and angles , with a list , stored in memory , of the attributes associated with a particular object . |
| 6 | Consumers judge quality by comparing the service they receive against expectations of what they should receive . |
| 7 | We tested for a mating preference for large crests by comparing the attractiveness of models with short crests to the same models with crest feathers lengthened ( Fig. 1 ) , using three models of each sex to ensure that responses were not biased by unique characteristics of any one specimen . |
| 8 | After all , we are only able to see a chair , so that we can sit down , by comparing the look of the chair with the ‘ look ’ of the space around it . |
| 9 | External reliability can be measured by comparing the test scores obtained by one tester working with the same group of children on two separate occasions separated by a short time interval . |
| 10 | The phospholipid spots were detected by Phospray dye vaporisation and identified by comparing the migration of standard single phospholipis with their mixtures ( Figs 1 and 2 ) . |
| 11 | When this is not the case there will almost certainly , however , be periodic attempts to reconcile the two sets of accounts , by comparing the profit shown in the financial accounts with that revealed in the cost accounts . |
| 12 | He brushed aside charges that the Government had reneged on its election promises last year by comparing the Government borrowing crisis with the early years of the Thatcher Government in which , he said , taxes had to rise before they could be brought down after borrowing was stabilised . |
| 13 | This can be achieved by comparing the candidate letter strings with a list of n-grams . |
| 14 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 15 | ( Or , in the dark , by comparing the feel of the chair with the ‘ feel ’ of air , or a nearby table . ) |
| 16 | This distance relation score measures the degree of attraction between a lemma and its collocates , by comparing the frequency of a collocate in the concordances with the frequency that would be expected were all words distributed in the text at random . |
| 17 | By comparing the frequency of fluent restorations in different conditions , it is possible to see whether preceding context affects the recognition point of a word . |
| 18 | The performance of any individual title in the category can thus be assessed by comparing the issue record on its date label with the ‘ mean issue per book ratio ’ . |
| 19 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 20 | The enthalpy of hydration for sodium chloride is the sum of the individual hydration enthalpies of the sodium and chloride ions : The hydration enthalpies of individual ions can be estimated by comparing the hydration enthalpies of a range of ionic compounds with a common ion . |
| 21 | The effects of solvent absorption in a solution may be partially compensated by comparing the transmittance of matched cells , one containing solution and the other pure solvent , ideally in a double-beam spectrometer . |
| 22 | Empirical analysis of the redistribution of income by the tax and social security systems has traditionally proceeded by comparing the degree of inequality in incomes before and after taxes and benefits . |
| 23 | We have investigated the differences in the architecture of the corresponding open complexes by comparing the positioning of holoenzymes reconstituted respectively with native or with truncated α-subunits ( containing the first 235 or 256 residues of a ) at two ‘ up ’ promoter mutants of the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters ( respectively lac UV5 and gal 9A16C ) . |
| 24 | For this reason , it was planned to carry out evaluation of this type of material by comparing the performance of an experimental group using a Swedish audio commentary with that of a control group using an English commentary . |
| 25 | Thus the abilities of left and right hemispheres on tactile tasks can be assessed by comparing the performance of the right and left hands . |
| 26 | Moreover , we could test the restrictions by comparing the likelihood for the unrestricted equations in ( 3.43 ) with the restricted version where the right-hand sides of equations ( 3.48 ) replace γ and δ in equation ( 3.43b ) . |
| 27 | If the rational expectations hypothesis is not rejected by this test we can test the structural neutrality hypothesis by comparing the likelihood from the system in equation ( 6.20 ) with the likelihood from the same system with the restriction imposed that β 11 equals β 12 . |
| 28 | By comparing the film Apocalypse Now ( 1978 ) with the story on which it is based — Joseph Conrad 's " Heart of Darkness " ( 1902 ) — you might gain ideas about differences between film and writing as media , or differences between an early twentieth-century text and a late twentieth-century text ; you might also get ideas about narrative by comparing how the two narratives are the same and how they differ . |
| 29 | Further , by comparing the size of the mushroom bodies to the brain as a whole it has been shown in the Hymenoptera that the sawflies come lowest in the scale and the social Hymenoptera highest , while the solitary bees occupy an intermediate position ( Hanstrom , 1926 ; Pandazis , 1930 ; Gejvall , 1936 ; Goossen , 1949 ; and earlier workers ; cf. also Zuberi , 2963 , on termites ) . |
| 30 | Before providing a framework within which to see the information industry , we can get some sense of scale by comparing the size of the electronic media markets with print-on-paper markets . |