Example sentences of "compare [pers pn] with the " 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 The champions have tremendous belief in their own ability , and while it 's premature to compare them with the great Kilkenny sides they look well enough equipped to retain their title .
4 does that compare them with the customers ?
5 They compared them with the names on the above catalogue and with those on two other farm catalogues , one dated 1873 , the other 1919 .
6 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 .
7 He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states .
11 She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid .
12 The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession .
13 Mandelbrot compares it with the phenomenon of scaling noises .
14 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 ’ .
15 The author charts this progress and compares it with the British decision to choose the advanced gas cooled reactor ( AGR ) in 1965 .
16 Good locks are n't cheap … unless you compare them with the sort of loss and distress even a minor burglary can cause .
17 All we 've got to do is to take his fingerprints and compare them with the beauties on this envelope .
18 Then the reader is advised to read the accounting policies and compare them with the policies used in the previous year and with those competitors use .
19 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 " .
20 We shall examine the results of his experiments and compare them with the results that we would expect if the records were perfectly randomized .
21 Compare them with the main reasons supporting the argument .
22 In this paper we describe the results of restorative proctocolectomy in 18 patients over the age of 50 whom we have treated in the past six years and compare them with the results achieved in younger patients .
23 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 .
24 But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily !
25 Write down a list of everything that you regularly eat and drink , and compare it with the following recommended lists of foods and drinks to increase and decrease .
26 The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one .
27 Compare it with the sentence : ‘ That sensation is excited in our minds by the presence to our organs of any one of numerous objects . ’
28 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 .
29 The argument was that if the right hemisphere can store a representation of the auditory set and compare it with the visual probe letter then there should be an advantage in reaction time to letters presented in the LVF compared to the RVF .
30 This was an uncached design and it was unable to reach the dizzy heights attained by its rivals — compare it with the Western Systems machine which had an identical Conner drive but was cached .
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