Example sentences of "when it is compare " in BNC.

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1 But the pathway to discovery was established and the scale on which resources were expended to make these discoveries represents a fantastic extravagance when it is compared with the few thousands of pounds available to Florey and his colleagues , and even with the subsequent development of the original penicillins in the United States .
2 The lightness of Courtney 's sentence is obvious when it is compared to other recent sentences .
3 ‘ Salutary neglect ’ is a description that fits the colonial policy of the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century , particularly when it is compared with the fairly active government of the late seventeenth century .
4 Doubts about Mancini 's version are reinforced when it is compared with the account produced early in 1486 by the anonymous continuator of the Crowland chronicle .
5 The result is that British primary legislation , as drafted at present , is presented in , as it were , a ‘ naked ’ state when it is compared with Community legal texts .
6 Doubts about Mancini 's version are reinforced when it is compared with the account produced early in 1486 by the anonymous continuator of the Crowland chronicle .
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