Example sentences of "be that the former " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 2 | A difference between McGregor and Tuckman seems to be that the former sees some groups as fixed in their poor behaviour , whereas the latter implies that groups tend to move out of the ineffective stages into more effective behaviour . |
| 3 | A difference between Morelli and Friedlander is that the former explains his method , while the latter does not . |
| 4 | The difference between most ARC members and professional chefs , male or female , is that the former have not been through ‘ the system ’ . |
| 5 | What distinguishes suicide from euthanasia is that the former is the individual 's own act , whereas the latter involves the direct act of another . |
| 6 | For instance , coins of the tribe of the Carnutes inscribed with the name ‘ Yllycci ’ were present , whereas those with ‘ Giamilos ’ were absent ; the inference is that the former were produced before 52BC and the latter after that date . |
| 7 | An obvious explanation for such a result is that the former compound evokes more suppression simply because the UR ( of suppression ) evoked by the novel stimulus combines with the CR elicited by the CS+ . |
| 8 | The fundamental difference between water-clocks and mechanical clocks , in the strict sense of the term , is that the former involve a continuous process , for example , the flow of water through an orifice , whereas the latter depend on a mechanical motion that continually repeats itself and so divides time uniformly into discrete segments . |
| 9 | The litmus test between the great mind and the clever mind is that the former is always conscious of how little he knows , and the latter of how much he knows . |
| 10 | Pseudo-Ulpian suggests that the distinction between civil-law dispositions and trusts is that the former are in direct and the latter in precatory words . |
| 11 | The main difference between the ‘ Oracles ’ and the Created God is that the former were believed to be of ‘ divine ’ origin , whereas the latter would be of mankind 's own creation , and therefore under human control . |
| 12 | The difference between assurance and insurance is that the former is a guarantee under contract to pay money on the death of a named person or , in some cases , earlier during the person 's lifetime , and the latter is an undertaking by an insurance company to , in return for regular premiums , undertake the risks of repaying cash for any loss or damage . |
| 13 | One difference between a moral sacrifice and a religious sacrifice , for example , is that the former is what morality may require on a specific occasion . |
| 14 | The difference between the fragmentation described by Braverman and that analysed by Stone is that the former came about in order to de-skill and control through Tayloristic practices , while the latter came about partly in order to create a range of jobs which could be formed into a job ladder . |
| 15 | The difference between materialist , scientific thought and idealist , ideological thought is that the former recognizes the determination of consciousness and so returns to an empirical or ‘ real ’ world of practical activity to generate abstractions . |
| 16 | An obvious major difference between corporate and conventional crime is that the former 's victims often remain unaware . |
| 17 | The other most obvious difference between the researcher and the ordinary new member of a social group is that the former must keep detailed and accurate notes and records of everything observed and every impression gained . |
| 18 | The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other . |
| 19 | The distinction between adjudicatory and regulatory tribunals is that the former are making a binding decision following a reference by a person aggrieved by a decision which has already been made , whereas the latter are directly applying a system of government regulation rather than supervising or reviewing the proper application of the system of government regulation . |
| 20 | The difference between these two sections is that the former is supposed to show you where you should start pursuing the main themes of the chapter . |
| 21 | The only difference between copper wire and air is that the former carries the current . |
| 22 | The connection between the existence of a system of private property and freedom is that the former enables each individual to construct a ‘ private sphere ’ , rendering him or herself safe from coercive interference by others . |
| 23 | Second , a striking difference between the NCRA and the block exemption is that the former provides no immunity from prosecution , while the latter rules out prosecution ( at least for certain types of agreements ) for a limited period of time . |
| 24 | But , perhaps , the biggest single difference between the work of the TechDoc system and the more insidious desktop publishing package is that the former are designed to be used in conjunction with other systems . |
| 25 | The difference between the trained and the naïve rats is that the former have been electrically shocked , and therefore certainly stressed or pained , when attempting to enter the dark box . |
| 26 | Another important difference between this form of mass-production and unit mass-production is that the former invariably requires a lower labour force than the latter . |
| 27 | The distinction between complex subjects and multi-word terms is that the former contain more than one unit concept . |
| 28 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 29 | Where they differ is that the former group will look at interest cover rather than dividend cover or earnings per share . |
| 30 | The fundamental difference between the traditional City and Guilds awards and the new NVQ award is that the former were awarded by City and Guilds to students who had attended an approved course of study in a college which led to the student successfully passing the relevant City and Guilds examination . |