Example sentences of "compare [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | This may mean setting up materials for children to investigate , setting up discussions between children to explore each other 's views and in some cases referring children to secondary sources to compare their beliefs with the information provided there . |
2 | Finally , two sets of adults most involved with the formal teaching of ‘ stranger-danger ’ , viz. primary schoolteachers and community involvement police officers , will be asked to repeat the experimental tasks , predicting how children would respond , in order to compare their predictions with the children 's actual responses . |
3 | The company produced 211,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1991 , although it was unable to compare its emissions with the previous year . |
4 | Just as in 1876 — Morel frequently compared his efforts with the outburst against the Bulgarian atrocities — the campaigners were outraged by Foreign Office insistence that wider considerations of the balance of power should be taken into account when deciding how far to push their humanitarian crusade . |
5 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
6 | After you have done this , compare your key-words with the list below . |
7 | Using the Black-Scholes model , evaluate the following calls and puts and compare your answers with the market values given below and account for any discrepancies : . |
8 | For example if you 've got between thirteen and twenty for an activist that 's a very strong preference , however for a reflector a very strong preference is eighteen to twenty , because by nature most of us tend , you know most of us tend to stand back and think so what we actually need , what we wh what we can see is that when we compare our scores against the general norms it 's a much more accurate picture of our learning style . |
9 | If we compare our rates with the best , they were double those of the Netherlands in 1979 as we have seen , and by 1985 had worsened to two and one half times the Dutch rates . |
10 | A significant night , at least in journalistic terms , and there would be journalists here this evening , no doubt comparing their analyses of the bygone seventies , their predictions for the 1980s . |
11 | The models will then be tested by comparing their predictions with the behaviour of people making idealised decisions in the laboratory . |
12 | Try to view your work as dispassionately as you would any other programme you might watch on the television — but do n't be too hard on yourself , you are now comparing your efforts with the work of skilled professionals ! |
13 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |