Example sentences of "comparable to [det] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the legislature finds that limitations on the common law principle are needed for reasons of policy or good administration then they can be adopted by legislation , e.g. by a short limitation period , presumptions as to validity , even ( which I mention but do not necessarily think appropriate since the matter has not been discussed ) a power in the courts to limit the effects of any order for recovery comparable to that conferred on the European Court of Justice by article 174 of the E.E.C . |
| 2 | For a distance of 1.5kpc and beaming into 3.4 steradian ( an assumed value based on the pulse width ) , this represents 6.1x10 34 ergs -1 or about 1.8% of the spin-down energy loss of 3.4x10 36 ergs -1 , comparable to that seen in the Vela pulsar for similar assumptions . |
| 3 | Consequently , the sufferer increasingly cuts himself or herself off from the reality of life as presented by others and continues to blame them for their failure to provide unconditional love and " understanding " comparable to that experienced in the relationship with alcohol or with other substances or behaviour that lead to alteration of mood . |
| 4 | Thus RENFE unions achieved a position of influence over the day-to-day organization of railway work comparable to that exerted by the unions in BR . |
| 5 | The free volume fraction of 2.5 per cent is low compared with the S-B estimation but is comparable to that derived from the Gibbs-Di Marzio theory . |
| 6 | Systems comparable to this operated in the east , in Ugarit and the land of the Hatti , where ‘ guilds ’ of artisans were able to pursue their various callings in the town bazaars , and some development along these lines may have been possible in Minoan Crete . |
| 7 | Even here , however , the shortage of filmmaking competence was felt , causing the American company to terminate the project in 1924 with a complaint that ‘ the productions failed to reach a quality comparable to those made in the States . ’ |
| 8 | At that time no other vertebrates were there to steal eggs and gulp the larvae , no risks comparable to those threatened in the water by shoals of hungry fish . |
| 9 | The lead isotope data can be explained if the U/Pb ratios in the sources are comparable to those observed for the lavas and the U/Pb fractionation occurred at the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere . |
| 10 | Foucault 's distrust of conventional forms of history , as we have seen , is a consistent thread in his project , as is his insistence that his historical method is limited to addressing specific problems — often comparable to those posed by the social sciences — to historical documents and practices in order to make them intelligible . |
| 11 | Inserts to b and c show the changes expected in the Pb isotopic composition of a model array of data over a period of 130Myr with μ ( 238 U/ 204 Pb ) values comparable to those found in the erupted basalts . |
| 12 | Sedimentary features in modern lacustrine depositional settings comparable to those found in the Upper Permian sequences are summarized in Table 1 . |
| 13 | The levels detected upstream in the Friends of the Earth study are broadly comparable to those measured by the ministry in samples nearer the coast - where official models would predict a higher amount of radioactivity . |
| 14 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |