Example sentences of "to compare [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the surviving harpsichord by Hitchcock has lost its stop knobs : it would have been most useful to compare them with the painting . |
| 2 | A broader academic aim is to relate the effects identified to other processes of retail change and to compare them with the impact of other major developments . |
| 3 | The champions have tremendous belief in their own ability , and while it 's premature to compare them with the great Kilkenny sides they look well enough equipped to retain their title . |
| 4 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 5 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You 'd have to compare it to the Rickenbacker 650 reviewed last month — roughly the same price , but a much slicker guitar — or maybe a Hamer Special , if your tendencies are more Gibson-orientated . |
| 8 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 9 | Leaving the Chamber now and again to compare it with the live BBC-2 coverage , Mr Brown also looked very telegenic . |
| 10 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |
| 11 | Having obtained a fairly comprehensive view of the farm situation in Great Britain as it relates to training an attempt was made to compare it with the position in Europe . |
| 12 | Its size , and the fact that it was printed on the Pitman Press at Bath , lead one to compare it with the ornithological publications of Poyser which it closely resembles . |
| 13 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 14 | WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said |
| 15 | Your Committee being by nature shy , retiring , modest people , would be the last to compare themselves with the Captains and Kings — more like your temporary , acting , unpaid Lance Corporals , — Dogsbodies one and all . |