Example sentences of "[prep] be compared with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this is done , there is a tendency for other artists to be compared with the leader to their disadvantage . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 3 | I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council . |
| 4 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 5 | In collaboration with Imperial College , the methods developed in the earlier regional studies have now been adapted to the urban environment in order to enable environmental factors and epidemiological patterns and 'hot spots ' to be compared with the natural background geochemistry and with the environmental contamination of soil , water and air arising from industrialisation and urbanisation . |
| 6 | None of this , though , for Ifor or for Cis or , I presume , for the rest of the family , was to be compared with the fact that Richard Walter Jenkins Junior , aged eleven , passed a scholarship to the Secondary School and went there : the first Jenkins of that line ever to do so . |
| 7 | This approximate total of 5500 jobs is to be compared with the 1974 estimates of 17 000 jobs by the early 1990s . |
| 8 | The path was narrow and climbed steeply between thickets of gorse which were in flower ; nothing to be compared with the dramatic spring show but enough to provide a few patches of welcome colour against the sombre background of the moor in November . |
| 9 | This is to be compared with the thermal energy in any mode of oscillation at 4 K : . |
| 10 | ‘ Not to be compared with the tycoon , eh ? ’ eh asked nastily . |
| 11 | This is to be compared with the amount of information transmitted in the other two exercises . |