Sentence examples for the former constituting from inspiring English sources

The middle fan facies includes braided channels and interchannels, with deposits of the former constituting the majority of the succession (Fig. 5).

The former constitutes insider trading under federal securities law.

That is not to discount Leicester or Spurs, but if the former constitute a 24-point mini-league of their own, the goal must be 16 points.

To assure the appointment of Manchus to government posts, equal quotas were set aside for the Manchus and the Chinese, although the former constituted only about 3 percent of the population.

The former constitutes a closer integration, both serving the function of expressing the process (Halliday1994: 146).

The former constitutes about 1% of the total mass of particles.

The former constitutes anatomic and morphological characteristics, such as alveolar bone dehiscence, thin buccal mucosa, crowding, presence of aberrant fraenula and ectopic tooth eruption.

Rivers play a major role in assimilation or carrying off of municipal and industrial wastewater and runoff from agricultural land, the former constitutes the constant polluting source, whereas the latter is a seasonal phenomenon.

While the former constitutes an ideology and discourse that was created as a response to problems of a definite historical period, the latter relates to the instrumental level and embraces the means by which particular policies are devised and implemented.

The former constitutes a scenario equivalent to that given by agents with fixed radius in the continuous domain, whereas the latter corresponds to a variable radius (in the continuous domain).

"Partner employment status matters more than children in certain family arrangements, suggesting that the former constitutes a glass fence, potentially impacting women's access to cutting-edge international knowledge production and elite academic positions".