Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] compared [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , however , only a brief-lived aberration if compared with the more complete Victorian revival which happened later . |
| 2 | The Perkins 4 ( no of cylinders ) 236 ( size in cub inches ) will fit into a LR but in a four cylinder such as yours space is limited and it is a tight fit The six cylinder with the extra room in the engine bay allows the engine to fit more easily The 189 Ibf h torque as compared to the 103 Ibf h of its original engine will certainly find any weakness in the transmission , the S2A gearbox will handle it better than an S3 |
| 3 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
| 4 | Thus , his willingness to enter budgetary talks without preconditions — a point made by Bush to congressional leaders on May 6 — was welcomed by many Democrats as evidence of a new realism on the part of the administration when compared with the use of accounting manoeuvres and optimistic forecasts which had characterized the 1991 budget proposal . |
| 5 | In contrast , the α-truncated polymerases produce a differential footprint for the open complex when compared to the wild-type enzyme . |
| 6 | But these and other financial swindles pale into insignificance when compared to the Equity Funding Scandal ( Blundell 1978 ; Dirks and Gross 1974 ; Soble and Dallos 1974 ) . |
| 7 | And , if some of the attacks of the Scottish press and public before the England semi-final seemed rather excessive , they pale into insignificance when compared to the Anglophobia that preceded , but mostly followed , the French quarter-final defeat in Paris . |
| 8 | However , these irritations perhaps paled into insignificance when compared to the British position . |
| 9 | The amounts of money involved , however , pale into insignificance when compared with the vast sums spent each year on older areas such as ‘ big physics ’ . |
| 10 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 11 | The discovery of the St Albans and Bury St Edmunds remains were certainly exciting , especially to the examiners , but they pale into insignificance when compared with the results of the research undertaken after the opening of the coffin of Edward IV ( d.1483 ) in 1788 , the subject of a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries on 26 January 1769 . |
| 12 | Economic growth is usually measured in terms of GNP and though this presents some problems they pale into insignificance when compared with the problems involved in the definitions of education which have included literacy rates , school enrolment rates , university attendance rates , expenditure on education , and so on . |
| 13 | Secondly , a difference in the ability of the two halves of the brain to utilise advance information in selecting the required stimulus feature for further processing should result in an asymmetrical effect of pre-cueing in the partial report condition as compared with the full report condition . |
| 14 | Second , both policies represented a welfare loss when compared with the optimal tariff and equivalent quota policies , with the relative welfare loss from the UK quota policy being greater than that from the EC policy ( -5.98% as opposed to -2.18% ) . |
| 15 | Shipments of cars to Middle East markets rose by 60 p.c. when compared with the Gulf war-affected levels of a year ago . |
| 16 | The subjects with influenza B showed a 19% increase in the reaction time for the 10 minute version of the variable fore period simple reaction time test when compared with the controls ( symptomatic value 440 ( SD 82 ) ms , control value 369 ( SD 79 ) ms , p<0.05 ) . |
| 17 | The relative risk of gastric body ulcer associated with the presence of the small fragment as compared with the homozygosity for the large fragment was 7.12 . |
| 18 | The products of the number of papers in a given subject field and from a given country , and the mean citation rate calculated for each journal are summed by journal and compared with the observed citation rate . |
| 19 | It is of interest that the acini isolated from the pancreas damaged by caerulein responded to caerulein in the incubation medium with the concentration dependant increase in amylase secretion but this response curve was shifted to the right as compared with the acini obtained from saline infused rats . |
| 20 | But in the general debate on privatisation , he illustrated the higher Civil Service 's preference for the first-class generalist with a philosophic overview as compared with the grubby technician . |
| 21 | On the one hand , the United States ' courts can put more teeth into the State Farm ‘ list ’ through their greater concern for the provision of reasons and a filly developed record as compared to the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | The question of what constituted a small distribution as compared with the value of the shares was a question of fact and degree for the Special Commissioner . |
| 23 | The new English also exhibited a considerable excess of ontological security when compared with the anxieties raised for pre-war English by the spectres of cynicism and ambiguity . |
| 24 | Usually it refers to a relative address , the location of the next record when compared to the address of the record being presently processed . |
| 25 | The differences in disease severity during the study were paralleled by a higher mean stool frequency for the placebo group as compared with the cyclosporin group , 2.7 v 1.6 stools/day ( Table II ) . |
| 26 | The lead is now sent to the Minsterley terminus of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool branch line , but if the Bishop 's Castle Railway were completed the ore destined for South Wales would be conveyed from Churchstoke Station via Craven Arms and the Central Wales Railway , thus effecting a saving of twenty miles in transit as compared with the present route . |
| 27 | Subsequently the British state evolved with a remarkable degree of' stability and continuity when compared with the state in Spain . |
| 28 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 29 | Equally , when Prost won the Portuguese Grand Prix a week ago , he received but a cursory welcome home from the McLaren pit when compared with the reception given to Senna 's victory in Jerez . |
| 30 | The proportion of cases among those with missing data was disproportionately higher in the Maori group , leading to a greater odds ratio when compared with the non-Maori children ( univariate odds ratio of those with full data was 3.42 and for those without full data 4.60 ) . |