1.   As a prime minister he probably ranked with Ramsay MacDonald in humble origin and modest wealth.

2.   The days when bank managers ranked with doctors in local communities because of sound advice and fair treatment of customers have long gone.

3.   Cuvier wanted to turn natural history into a science that would rank with physics and chemistry.

4.   Although he is ranked with Rembrandt here, Vermeer feels closer and has cast a greater spell.

5.   Although few would rank him with Owen, who is widely considered the best of the Great War poets, critics gave Dearmer his due.

6.   Amelio himself described the current state of Italian film as only fair, but gracefully evaded the question of whether he ranks with the giants of postwar cinema.

7.   And the ratings rank with the best in baseball.

8.   And the view, while not pretty, is a thing of strange beauty that ranks with his best.

9.   Artistically, they rank with any team that has ever played their sport.

10.   As a mime, Pryor ranked with Charlie Chaplin and the black Ziegfeld Follies star Bert Williams.