Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] compare with " in BNC.
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| 1 | With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ . |
| 2 | They are also costly which is , perhaps , the major reason why they tend to be little used when compared with the cross-sectional , single survey . |
| 3 | Cancers in other specific body sites were also monitored and compared with surveys from other countries but more research requires to be done . |
| 4 | If we adopt here Le Page 's distinction between focusing and diffuseness in language states , a community like Belfast is relatively diffuse ( divergent within itself ) in comparison with more homogeneous communities , but relatively focused when compared with communities in which there is extensive code-switching and code-mixing ( such as the Caribbean communities studied by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | On the day after stopping SMS 201–995 treatment , these levels were not significantly decreased when compared with placebo . |