Example sentences of "was [adj] compared [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of TV at the BBC was stately compared with the hasty start of ITV . |
| 2 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 3 | Even so , Dr Neil 's modest home was larger and better appointed than most around Vetch Street , and was vast compared with the one stifling room she had briefly occupied in Crow Court . |
| 4 | Sir Ralph Whitton 's murder was simple compared to the complexities surrounding Mowbray 's . |
| 5 | The Government 's preferred three-month measure shows output was unchanged compared with the previous three months , and only 0.5 pc up on a year earlier . |
| 6 | Conservatives complain that interviews with them were broadcast out of peak time and that the programme 's interview with Mr Kinnock was soft compared with the grilling of Mr Major . |
| 7 | It was unusual compared with the other countries in that it actually represented a decline ( of 2% ) from the 1971 figure . |
| 8 | How would we know a jar was full compared with an empty jar . |
| 9 | But the discomfort was mild compared to the pain which engulfed the rest of his body , filling his veins like liquid fire . |
| 10 | Connelly felt himself losing consciousness but he was aware of being slapped hard across the face , even if the pain of the blow was negligible compared to the mind-numbing suffering he felt from his burned hand . |
| 11 | The north-facing slopes of the Montagne de Reims bore the brunt of the hostilities , yet the damage done to the vineyards during the Battle of the Marne was negligible compared with the inhuman slaughter and tragic loss of lives in the trenches . |
| 12 | Well it was useless compared to the amount I 'd been using , y'know . |
| 13 | Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East ( and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles ) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher 's gain — so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened . |
| 14 | Opposition came primarily from students but was minor compared with the pervasive feeling that the war was laying to rest the ghost of the unsuccessful US involvement in Vietnam 20 years earlier . |
| 15 | If only an ordinary copy ( not an office copy ) has been delivered to you , then the date to search from is that on which the land certificate was last checked with the entries on the Register , this being the date given in the land certificate which will be supplied by the seller on appropriate requisition — " What is the date on which the land certificate was last compared with the entries on the register ? " |