Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] be compared to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 2 | It has also been suggested that rape in marriage can not be compared to other forms of rape , since the effect on the victim must needs be far less traumatic . |
| 3 | President Kaunda told delegates that Zambia 's experience could not be compared to that of the Soviet Union or of East European countries which had recently opted for political pluralism . |
| 4 | And although they emphasised purity and traditional observance in religion , their position in other spheres might justifiably be compared to that of , say , the Vichy regime in occupied France during the Second World War . |
| 5 | The efficiency of an operation should therefore be compared to a predetermined standard or target . |
| 6 | Percentage measures of performance should therefore be compared to that expected from random selection . |
| 7 | His language and style can indeed be compared to an artist 's brush , quivering with fever and emotion . |
| 8 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 90 ] = 1.99 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 90 ] = 2.63 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 9 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 133 ] = 1.98 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 133 ] = 2.61 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 10 | This z-score can then be compared to the value of z required for 90% , 95% and 99% significance level ( obtained from statistical tables ) : ( z [ df 87 ] = 1.66 , p < 0.1 ) , ( z [ df 87 ] = 1.99 , p < 0.05 ) , ( z [ df 87 ] = 2.63 , p < 0.01 ) . |
| 11 | If this causes difficulties for some , Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the tendency to inflate the effect of individual agency can only be compared to the position of many Marxisms in which resistance and revolution are hardly the privilege of the individual as such , but rather of collective class action . |
| 12 | Considerably lesser wines , however , are made from an isolated plot of vines around the south-western edge of Ambonnay — obviously these vines can not be compared to those situated north of the village . |
| 13 | Lord Kilmuir 's harsh recollection of his summary despatch may usefully be compared to Macmillan 's sepia portrayal more than twenty years after the event . |