Example sentences of "could be compared with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway , with its long winters , small farms , preponderance of stock rearing and the importance of rural off-farm work , could be compared with Orkney , Wester Ross and North Wales . |
| 2 | Germany , with good soil , mixed farming , greater involvement of women on the farm and the importance of urban off-farm work , could be compared with South Derbyshire , Leicestershire and part of Speyside . |
| 3 | France , on the other hand , with its full-time farmers , upland , stock-rearing farms and farm-gate sales of produce , could be compared with South and Central Wales , parts of North Yorkshire and Speyside . |
| 4 | The situation in Norway could be compared with that in Wester Ross , North Wales and , to a lesser extent , North Yorkshire . |
| 5 | The Gorbals of old could be compared with parts of Stepney and Whitechapel , or the Bowery and Bronx of New York City . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it would not be an easy matter to construct a home-made optical system using digital signals so that this technique could be compared with the analogue one . |
| 7 | You could then make up some sentences in which AH could be compared with another long vowel , say AW , like this : |
| 8 | Fiah was perhaps the only African in Tanganyika who could be compared with those behind West Africa 's press of the same period , men like Akikiwe , Danquah and Jackson . |
| 9 | It could be compared with chemistry because of its systematic techniques such as content analysis but the European techniques of interpretation had no such systematicity . |
| 10 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 11 | In this way the restorative effects of sleep without Stage REM could be compared with those of sleep without Stage 4 . |
| 12 | The same questions as those in the mental test were also given to some pupils as a standard written test so that performance on it could be compared with the two mental test versions . |
| 13 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 14 | In Wasim and Waqar , Pakistan had a pair of superb fast bowlers who could be compared with the best in any era of cricket . |
| 15 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 16 | An urban area could be compared with a rural area . |
| 17 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 18 | In both those cases the express words used and the relevant clause could be compared with other express words used elsewhere . |
| 19 | This could be compared with an estimate of the same prevalence from some previous survey to give a measure of secular change . |