Example sentences of "compare it with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointed at the value put on his company by the stock market , which compared it with other electronics groups , he decided to spin-off Vodafone and Chubb . |
| 2 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 3 | I mean , James Frazer would have read her novel , cos I think that 's all you can call it , Coming of Age in Samoa , because it 's mainly fictional , he would 've read her novelistic account , and then he would have compared it with other accounts , which had been published in German and other languages , and accounts of , of Samoans themselves , and he would have said , look there 's something wrong here . |
| 4 | We then turn to a model where the motives for capital accumulation are set explicitly in terms of the life-cycle savings theory treated in Lecture 3 , and compare it with alternative approaches ( Section 8–4 ) . |
| 5 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
| 6 | Compare it with other theories , try and look for the limitations of it . |
| 7 | What happens if , let's have a look , and compare it with critical illness . |
| 8 | A taboo is something beyond reason and as we saw , what Freud does in the book is compare it with neurotic prohibitions which are kind of personal taboos , and in fact the sub-title of the book is some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics . |
| 9 | Now the National Gallery , London , is borrowing the picture , minus the rest of the exhibition , but with the intention of comparing it with other works by Leonardo in their collection . |
| 10 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |
| 11 | Korth ( 1979 ) illustrated the breakage resulting from coyote predation , comparing it with physical abrasion , but he did not document the breakage in any systematic way . |
| 12 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 13 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 14 | The best way to do this is to compare it with real paddlers . |
| 15 | And under the " public good " defence it may be relevant to the jury 's task of evaluating the merit of a particular book to compare it with other books of the same kind , and to hear expert evidence about the current climate of permissiveness in relation to this kind of literature . |
| 16 | The Milky Way , presumably a translation of Ludwig Kuhn 's earlier German text of 1978 , is an attempt to give an up-to-date view of the Galaxy and to compare it with other galaxies . |
| 17 | The local area , of course should be a springboard not a straitjacket , and pupils need to be encouraged to move out from their locality to see it in a wider context , to compare it with other places , and above all , whatever period is under study , to begin to understand why the changes they have documented took place . |