Example sentences of "[prep] be compared with " 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 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 5 | It is harder to tap international markets for short-term capital ( though not impossible : Eurocommercial paper provides a way ) , but it is the cost of long-term capital that ought to be compared with potential investment projects . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No one can deny that he is more exciting , excitable and unconventional , with a mix of old and new Hollywood rolled up into a package that mixes James Dean with Humphrey Bogart , though Nicholson insists that he does not want to be compared with anyone . |
| 8 | A realistic comparison of costs requires like to be compared with like . |
| 9 | It provides lat/long data ; distance/bearing to destination/waypoint ; groundspeed ; heading ; relative altitude from starting point and absolute altitude based on local coordinates ; current time in hours , minutes and seconds ; and ETA at next waypoint based on current groundspeed ( with aural signal of waypoint passage ) , and also has a graphic display mode to enable current heading to be compared with true course . |
| 10 | Methods developed in earlier studies have now been adapted to the urban environment to enable environmental factors and epidemiological patterns to be compared with natural background geochemistry and with the environmental contamination of soil , water and air from industrialisation and urbanisation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This information is important if a child 's test score is to be compared with information from the standardisation sample in order to make judgements about relative severity of a linguistic problem or language delay . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed , adaptation often seems to be compared with some assumed saintly lifestyle and , as social services clients are often closely scrutinized , their short-comings are manifest . |
| 15 | Nor is he happy for his skills to be compared with those of a stand-up comic despite his highly persuasive double act with Ken Dodd , who later presented him with his own tickling stick . |
| 16 | ( A weakness is his habit of repeating lines merely for this purpose : Heine 's Allnächtlich im Traume , not to be compared with Schumann 's setting , suffers badly in this respect . ) |
| 17 | It should be noted moreover that such a Christology is not predicated upon saying that the difference between the sexes is of minimal importance , or simply to be compared with differences of race , with the implication that women can be said to be like Christ and so for example be ordained . |
| 18 | BELOW The remains of kilns after the firing experiment can be analysed and excavated to be compared with excavated examples . |
| 19 | This approximate total of 5500 jobs is to be compared with the 1974 estimates of 17 000 jobs by the early 1990s . |
| 20 | From Cuba to Japan is a long leap , and the ‘ economic difficulties ’ of the largest ELT market in the world are not to be compared with those of other countries . |
| 21 | A possible edge has to be compared with all other primitives before its existence as a viewed model edge can be established . |
| 22 | It was a start , but not to be compared with Stella 's debut as Ptolemy . |
| 23 | The Trias in this country was a time of desert conditions so that the forms exhumed from beneath its rocks will have to be compared with modern desert landforms . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is to be compared with the thermal energy in any mode of oscillation at 4 K : . |
| 26 | The likelihood ratio test statistic for testing the null hypothesis that the restrictions are correct is 8.58 , which has to be compared with a chi-square variate with eight degrees of freedom . |
| 27 | These values are to be compared with 2.07 , the critical value at the 5 per cent significance level under the ‘ t ’ distribution with 22 degrees of freedom . |
| 28 | The resulting test statistic is 5.49 , which has to be compared with 9.49 , the critical value under the chi-square distribution at the 5 per cent significance level with 4 degrees of freedom . |
| 29 | For their UK data ADD carried out such a test and obtained a test statistic of 17.93 which has to be compared with a critical chi-square value of 15.5 at the 5 per cent level and 20.1 at the 1 per cent level , with 8 degrees of freedom . |
| 30 | ‘ Not to be compared with the tycoon , eh ? ’ eh asked nastily . |