Example sentences of "difference is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 2 | The difference is that she never felt guilty about it , whereas I , who have devoured baby and child books since my first pregnancy test was positive , do . |
| 3 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 4 | The difference is that they take place within an agreed plan and programme . |
| 5 | The main difference is that in music publishing the company 's interest is predominantly in the music and the lyrics — the written song or composition — rather than the recorded sound . |
| 6 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 7 | The difference is that each line has to be searched to establish the presence or absence of a target set of letters ( the order of the target set is not important — only whether or not the whole set is present ) . |
| 8 | The greatest difference is that the Marshall plan was reviving economies which , even in the case of Germany , had experienced bureaucratic control for a relatively short period . |
| 9 | The difference is that , in America , politicians are more likely to follow public opinion on this question , not try to change it . |
| 10 | The other difference is that the vast majority of successful candidates would undoubtedly fail the exams for entry to the higher levels of the bureaucracy . |
| 11 | The only difference is that all that acting , all that recording , all that boring , frightening flying to gigs gave her the cash to fulfil that dream . |
| 12 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 13 | The difference is that , with the invention of new techniques , the gap between postulating an entity and identifying it physically is much shorter than it was in Mendel 's case . |
| 14 | The only real difference is that it now seems to have been taken over by the 22 clubs who , having escaped Football League control , no longer find their pursuit of commercial success frustrated by the decisive voting power of their poor relations . |
| 15 | Of course the difference is that Rooney 's view — that it is wrong to knowingly give the patient a drug that will harm her — probably has universal support . |
| 16 | Now essentially this also relies on the children 's using their imaginations to find answers — as in the case of the ‘ sewer ’ and the ‘ Lost Valley ’ contexts — but the difference is that ( a ) each ‘ find ’ is given due weight and attention , is publicly shared , evaluated , accepted or rejected , ( b ) the focus within which their imaginations can have free range is defined from the beginning , i.e. the puzzle is clear — ‘ what could be a logical solution ? ’ is the name of the game , and ( c ) the problem-solving does not have to be hurried by action . |
| 17 | The only difference is that those that are aware do it better . |
| 18 | The difference is that the tank provides for the passive task of soaking items rather than for the active role of washing . |
| 19 | The major difference is that a limit on HLCAs per farm exists in the French LFA ( either 30 or 40 LUs per farm depending on LFA zone ) but not in the UK , encouraging farm expansion , capital developments and overstocking in the UK uplands . |
| 20 | The strongest ecological difference is that between those who can accept whaling in principle so long as it is properly regulated and those who do not accept whaling in principle at all . |
| 21 | The method is similar to that used in chapter 6 , where we predicted the regional median unemployment rate for each local area within that region ; the difference is that the prediction from a linear equation will only be the same for two cases if they have identical mortality rates . |
| 22 | The grouping of the predator species in terms of incisor loss is almost exactly the same as other indicators of mandibular damage , and the main difference is that the snowy owl , which produced slightly ambivalent results for mandibular breakage , has low proportions of incisor loss ( Table 3.8 ) . |
| 23 | The main difference is that the solutions of the Ernst equation now contain the metric functions explicitly rather than the field potentials as in the stationary axisymmetric case . |
| 24 | The main difference is that in Africanus ' case Titius is a trustee and construed also as the beneficiary of a further trust , while in Scaevola 's Seia is coheir , trustee of one trust , and beneficiary of another . |
| 25 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 26 | The second difference is that in the colleges advanced instruction is usually timetabled , if not a formal part of the course , whereas in universities and polytechnics it is generally neither of these . |
| 27 | The difference is that FABMS for the first time uses a beam of uncharged atoms instead of charged ions for the process . |
| 28 | The only difference is that where the vaccine manufacturers use two strains of human flu viruses-one that grows well in hen 's eggs and the other with the currently circulating strain of flu virus so as to get the right antigens — the object in the latest work is to obtain a non-disease causing flu virus that will grow in humans but will also protect against the particular strain of wild type flu that is in circulation . |
| 29 | Another major difference is that the Sizewell PWR will have four high-head safety injection pumps instead of the two pumps used in the US , plus additional safeguards equipment . |
| 30 | The difference is that the insects live that way because they are following their only instinct in that sphere and this excludes them from all other forms of living . |