Example sentences of "compare [prep] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when G. P. Jones moves from noting the greater prominence of pronouns in Shakespeare compared with other Elizabethans to the statement that his sonnets have ‘ a substantial autobiographical element ’ , and that the ‘ fluctuation between thou and you ’ shows ‘ the poet 's uncertainty about his personal , social and professional connection with his patron is at its most acute ’ , then I feel that such speculations deflect attention from the real focus of interest , the pronouns as forms of relationship . |
| 2 | The idea of the ‘ marketing concept ’ is taken up in Chapter 31 , and is compared with other approaches to marketing . |
| 3 | Murphy ( 1978 ) reports a simple study on effectiveness where interpreted information to deaf people was compared with oral lectures to hearing people . |
| 4 | The Conservatives suffered a considerable loss of seats , but their share of the vote was static compared with 1986 thanks to the declining support of the former Alliance parties . |
| 5 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 6 | Women go to their doctors six times a year compared to four visits to the surgery by men . |
| 7 | The vertical bars above each base represent the percentage efficiency of binding when that base was mutated to the one shown in smaller type below ( compared to binding efficiency to the wild type probe ) . |
| 8 | Aptly compared by one historian to General Grant 's Chattanooga railway of 1863 , it established military history . |
| 9 | House procedures used once to be compared by class-conscious critics to a public school debating chamber ; these days it was more like break-time in a comprehensive . |