Example sentences of "compare [pers pn] with the [noun sg] " 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 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 4 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 5 | They have determined the number of BL Lac objects per unit volume of space , and compared it with the space density of quasars and other types of active galaxies ( submitted to the Astrophysical Journal ) . |
| 6 | First they measured the background — the number of gamma rays in the natural environment such as those produced by the concrete in the laboratory and compared it with the number of gamma rays when the electrochemical cell was present . |
| 7 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 8 | Mandelbrot compares it with the phenomenon of scaling noises . |
| 9 | For a confirmation of this , you only have to look at some of Turner 's paintings of the Dales and compare them with the reality to see how much poetic licence has been taken for the sake of the " phantasmagoric " . |
| 10 | Good locks are n't cheap … unless you compare them with the sort of loss and distress even a minor burglary can cause . |
| 11 | Consider the question ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ There exist pains I do n't feel , pains in other minds ’ ? ’ , and compare it with the question about afternoon on the Sun . |
| 12 | The sponsor of the project must evaluate offers and calculate the total cost of using a selected finance package and compare it with the cost of other sources of finance . |
| 13 | Compare it with the sentence : ‘ That sensation is excited in our minds by the presence to our organs of any one of numerous objects . ’ |
| 14 | Once the module has been restored compare it with the module which was reported in the error message using the DCL DIFFERENCE command . |
| 15 | Once the module has been restored compare it with the module which was reported in the error message using the DCL DIFFERENCE command . |
| 16 | So let us start with present-day society and compare it with the situation twenty years or so ago , and then compare that generation with its predecessor . |
| 17 | My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that you must er appertain now the actual situation of these plaintiffs and compare it with the situation that would have prevailed if the breaching of contract alleged , had not occurred . |
| 18 | Compare it with the signature on the letter . |
| 19 | The significance of these percentages can be gauged by comparing them with the South East 's share of total manufacturing which stood then at about 27 per cent . |
| 20 | Researchers from the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment spent FOUR YEARS examining case histories of child deaths in the area and comparing them with the rest of the country . |
| 21 | Initially , we examined the main effect of phonological processing by combining the results from the two experimental tasks and comparing them with the control tasks . |
| 22 | When she walked into Matthew 's sitting-room , Sara could not help comparing it with the drawing-room downstairs , it was so clean and fresh and comfortable . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |