Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] be compared [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This entry may now be compared with the entry in the domain-specific dictionary : access[ addition build combine confident exception exception facility future good knowledge manager month mortgage notice society sum time want world give high instant instant interest money ] |
| 2 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 3 | The definitions and expansions of various words can then be compared with this list to check for membership . |
| 4 | This indication can then be compared with a national base of 100 to indicate whether a particular area is better or worse than average for finding buyers or owners of any product which is already specifically measured in existing national market research surveys . |
| 5 | Our outcome data can not be compared with the existing published works because previous reports on chronic constipation with and without faecal soiling often combined younger and older children or children with idiopathic constipation and anorectal disorders , or both . |
| 6 | As we saw earlier in this chapter , the likelihood ratio test statistic could then be compared with a chi-square variate with , in this case , two degrees of freedom since there are two restrictions on the model . |
| 7 | The apparent safety of the work could also be compared with the horror of the post-war mining tragedy at Egremont , five miles to the north , in which 104 miners died . |
| 8 | He sets up long , colourful and emotional speeches that are in turn both funny , beautiful and violent , and his work can not be compared with anything that has preceded him . |
| 9 | As a chamber music group the saxophone quartet of soprano , alto , tenor , and baritone has much to enjoy , and with sensitive artists at work can almost be compared with the string quartet in terms of balance , tonal variety , and expression . |
| 10 | Though his small decorative motifs can sometimes be compared with those by Keith Vaughan , the breadth and vigour of his illustrative work remained unsurpassed . |
| 11 | It has also been suggested that rape in marriage can not be compared to other forms of rape , since the effect on the victim must needs be far less traumatic . |
| 12 | President Kaunda told delegates that Zambia 's experience could not be compared to that of the Soviet Union or of East European countries which had recently opted for political pluralism . |
| 13 | For the recognition phase , a candidate string can either be compared with a list of grams of the same length as itself , or it can be divided into sequences of shorter grams ( in the same way as described above for the acquisition phase ) and compared with a list of grams of this shorter length . |
| 14 | One person 's score can then be compared with those of the other individuals ( the norm-group ) . |
| 15 | In terms of its power to drive biological research , the advent of the polymerase chain reaction can certainly be compared with the discovery of the techniques of molecular cloning some 20 years ago . |
| 16 | The composition of the material produced under a variety of conditions may plausibly be compared with simulations based on the data obtained from the drift-tube collapse . |
| 17 | However , bargaining structures may also be compared at the disaggregated industry or workplace levels which vary greatly within countries as well as between them . |
| 18 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 19 | The marine figures can not be compared with those at High Wycombe , and the quality as well as the subject of the central panel is exceptional . |
| 20 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 21 | And although they emphasised purity and traditional observance in religion , their position in other spheres might justifiably be compared to that of , say , the Vichy regime in occupied France during the Second World War . |
| 22 | While we might make this general point and follow through its implications when we want to compare , for example , Braniel people with Ballymacarrett people , it is much less easy to see how the relatively looseknit network structures of Braniel people might meaningfully be compared with each other . |
| 23 | The national liberal politician , Johannes von Miquel , wrote that ‘ the suggested constitution could not be compared with the Swiss or American model ’ , adding for good measure that ‘ great peoples do not copy ’ . |
| 24 | The scores obtained by a group of children for the odd items can then be compared with the scores obtained by the same children for the even-numbered items . |
| 25 | The chronological introduction of different alloys can then be compared between different cultures and geographical areas . |
| 26 | The efficiency of an operation should therefore be compared to a predetermined standard or target . |
| 27 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 28 | His language and style can indeed be compared to an artist 's brush , quivering with fever and emotion . |
| 29 | Tillich concludes from this that even the most profound expression of compassion within Buddhism can not be compared with agape because it lacks the power to accept the unacceptable and the desire to change man and his society . |
| 30 | Duro and Greenhalgh 's book will undoubtedly be compared with Cambridge 's Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience by Stephen Polcari ( £10.95 ) . |