Example sentences of "relative to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason is the rise in the price of labour relative to the price of raw materials . |
| 2 | In the decade prior to nationalisation , electricity tariffs had hardly increased at all in money terms , and the average domestic price of electricity had fallen faster than in any other decade in history , both in real terms and relative to the price of its major competitors , gas and coal . |
| 3 | Well relative to the price of the machine , it 's hardly costly is it . |
| 4 | The effect is for labour costs to rise relative to the price of the product . |
| 5 | The effect of this rapid increase in the cost of materials , relative to the price at which final output was sold , was to make some old plants less profitable . |
| 6 | Reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject . |
| 7 | Another is to reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject , either by shifting to a more suitable setting or by moving in to a bigger close-up so that the dark background is reduced in size . |
| 8 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 9 | Brian Petley , who is head of basic metrology at Britain 's National Physical Laboratory , says the technique was so sensitive that Professor Dehmelt was able to measure the mass of the proton relative to the electron with an accuracy of one part in 100 million . |
| 10 | This is largely a matter of forming the habit of noting the wind from smoke or some other indication and of orientating yourself relative to the sun or an obvious feature such as a coast line , i.e. remember something along the lines of ‘ Into wind is into sun ’ , or say to yourself , ‘ I must land with the sun over my left shoulder ’ , etc . |
| 11 | The fact presupposed is that the Earth revolves on its axis so that places on the Earth have varying positions relative to the Sun . |
| 12 | Potential falsifiers of that theory consist of sets of statements referring to planetary positions relative to the sun at specified times . |
| 13 | At the appropriate times of the year , caged migrant birds regularly hop in the direction relative to the sun in which they would normally migrate . |
| 14 | The seasons occur because the spinning Earth is tilted on its axis relative to the sun . |
| 15 | The distance is told by the rate of the dance ; the direction by the angle of the centre part of the dance , during which the dancer wags her abdomen : the angle of this part of the dance relative to the vertical is the angle of the food source relative to the sun . |
| 16 | Stars near the sun have both well some have blue shifts and some have red shifts , so they 're moving in all directions relative to the sun . |
| 17 | If a perfectly ordered surface structure is assumed , the position of the s th atom in the j th unit cell can be written where W j is the vector of j th unit cell displaced from the origin by W j , u and v are the vectors of a unit cell , and w s is the position of an atom relative to the unit cell origin . |
| 18 | It is not intended to form part of an offer relative to the contract of insurance . |
| 19 | For proximal CRP activating sites located around -41 relative to the transcription start , both subunits of the CRP dimer are able to contact RNA polymerase . |
| 20 | Five is relative to the law of potentiality which shows that nature tends to build on a system of five-fold construction ; e.g. five toes on each foot , five fingers on each hand , five senses . |
| 21 | Although some protection is provided by appeal to the Mental Health Review Tribunal or nearest relative right to discharge , in practice both are rarely undertaken or successful , relative to the total sectioned . |
| 22 | At the sub-national level , the peripheral/least favoured regions might be expected to exhibit lower labour costs relative to the core regions . |
| 23 | Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for . |
| 24 | If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other . |
| 25 | one can be moved in discrete steps relative to the other . |
| 26 | A squint means that the eyes are not straight ; one is directed inwards or outwards relative to the other . |
| 27 | The problem for many that have entered alliances is that , though the alliance can strengthen both firms against outsiders , it can also weaken one partner relative to the other . |
| 28 | Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface . |
| 29 | The belief that the sea acting at one fixed level can not cut a very wide bench may be derived from the knowledge that sea level relative to the land has changed often in the recent geological past . |
| 30 | So , if a laser is shone directly into a gas the motion of the atoms relative to the laser will broaden considerably the range of frequencies absorbed . |