Example sentences of "relative to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it was the abandonment in 1981 of established procedures for settling the pay and conditions of civil servants , abolition of the Civil Service Department in the same year , deterioration of levels of pay relative to the private sector , efficiency scrutinies in departments in search of savings , attempts to limit index-linked pensions , or the reduction in numbers of staff , there was no doubting Mrs Thatcher 's hostility to much of the ethos of the civil service . |
| 2 | The canonising of many of these into ‘ sainthood ’ , and its corresponding condition within non-Christian religions puts them temporarily into a surrogate position relative to the Created God , which is similar to that into which Jesus Christ may be put . |
| 3 | When fully immersed , the effective weight of the lower tank is only 60 tons ; this means that relative to the lower tank , the weight of the upper tank will be 180 tons greater . |
| 4 | Both nodal position and enclosing box excursion domains are divided into sub-files recording , in the first case , the XYZ coordinates of the parts position in space relative to the specific assembly/sub-assembly origin . |
| 5 | It is well known that the absolute velocity is given by where is the velocity measured relative to the rotating frame at a vector distance r from the axis of rotation . |
| 6 | The ability to alter dividends is said to give companies more freedom relative to the external dependence on banks who may impose unilateral changes in interest rates or loan allocation . |
| 7 | Note that the relevant velocity is that of the source frame relative to the external observer at the instant that the light is detected . |
| 8 | The struggle for independence forced the ‘ homogenization ’ of the national liberation movement relative to the imperial power . |
| 9 | The velocities relative to the systemic velocity ; ) are 740 to 980kms -1 and -760 to — 920kms -1 , respectively . |
| 10 | Isotope fractionation has been corrected for by measuring the 13 C ( to within 0.5–1.0 relative to the standard rock , PDB ) , except for OxA-3214 and OxA-3215 , for which an assumed value of -26 was used . |
| 11 | For example , in Mattila 's study the highest score on the dental index carried a 10-fold increased risk of acute myocardial infarction relative to the lowest score . |
| 12 | The size of the EC budget relative to the combined budgets of member states is small . |
| 13 | The company information provided was aggregated and a ‘ correction factor ’ applied to account for the missing output , relative to the total output of the Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 14 | A correction factor consequently needed to be applied to account for the ‘ missing ’ output — relative to the total output of the Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 15 | Transnational corporation investments might appear minor relative to the total GNP of most countries , but they were extremely important in the context of particular branches of the economies of poor and some richer but small countries . |
| 16 | Although this may at first seem to be an absolute method of reading the bar widths , it is actually reading the widths of the bars relative to the total width of the bar code . |
| 17 | The radioactive potassium has a very long half-life ( 1250 million years ) so that the amount lost is extremely small relative to the total amount of potassium present and can not be measured . |
| 18 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 19 | The number of firms is larger , the smaller fixed costs ( C ) relative to the total sales ( δM ) , the greater the preference for variety ( ) , and the more account taken of the indirect effect ( γ ) . |
| 20 | In selecting only one thread of policy — on the national issue — we are in danger of misconstruing its significance relative to the overall context . |
| 21 | As the total amount of paid employment relative to the working population diminishes then we must either break down the barrier between employment and work or be condemned to live in a society permanently divided between the employed and growing numbers of the unemployed . |
| 22 | In general , the more heavily firms discount the future ( i.e. the higher their cost of capital ) the smaller will be the present value of future losses of profit caused by punishment , relative to the immediate gains from cheating on an agreement . |
| 23 | There is quite an extensive bibliography on this artist , ( that is relative to the virtual absence of any monographs on most women artists of the past ) including a number of appreciative biographies — starting with one published in 1810 , then another 1892 and the still definitive volume published in 1924 . |
| 24 | No matter how rigorously designed empirical studies may be , their value is always relative to the explicit formulation of the theory they are designed to serve . |
| 25 | This is illustrated in Fig. 5.12 , which allows for more grid dates at the short end of the maturity spectrum relative to the long end because of the greater difficulty of fitting the yield curve at the short end . |
| 26 | The most severe effect was obtained with the Gln-250 mutation , which dramatically impaired DNA-PK-mediated phosphorylation relative to the wild-type Jun-Core protein ( compare Q 250 A and WT ) . |
| 27 | Do you think in terms of scales and modes relative to the chordal structure you 're playing over , or do you think more in terms of the overall picture ? |
| 28 | Dipole-induced absorption is due to a dipole change in a particular direction relative to the molecular orientation in the crystal , so that rotation of the sample leads to changes in relative band intensities if polarized incident radiation is used . |
| 29 | The potential for the oceans to act as an enhanced sink for anthropogenic CO 2 remains , although the absolute increase in the rate of oceanic CO 2 sequestering possible may still be small relative to the global carbon budget . |
| 30 | Dismal though it might seem relative to the great hopes earlier , this was perhaps the high point for the accommodation of the nationalists . |