Example sentences of "the [adj] problem is [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second problem is that the effects of inflation make the relationship between calculated rates of charge for credit and its real-life costs already difficult enough to grasp — virtually incomprehensible . |
| 2 | The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population . |
| 3 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 4 | The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand . |
| 5 | The real problem is that the Government refuses to accept what the Maastricht Treaty is about . |
| 6 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 7 | ‘ Publishers are concerned about dwindling hardback sales ; but the real problem is that the price of most hardbacks deters people from buying them . |
| 8 | I mean , the real problem is that the rating system is out of date , it 's based on a rating valuation which was last updated in 1973 and has n't been updated since . |
| 9 | The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most . |
| 10 | The basic problem is that the ‘ givens ’ are not clear enough . |
| 11 | The basic problem is that the way in which the Act confers rule-making powers is deficient [ except for certain powers dealing , for instance , with the regulation of unit trusts ] . |
| 12 | The current problem is that the child takes all his clothes off when with his father in the supermarket . |
| 13 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 14 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 15 | The only problem is that the Dutch have not really been very good at the game since Dr Euwe retired . |
| 16 | The only problem is that the Soviet side insists there is nothing new . |
| 17 | The only problem is that the terminally ill patient has in effect lost his autonomy , and it does n't work for him , and that 's what the bill is all about . |
| 18 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
| 19 | The only problem is that the ground now might well have gone against this horse . |
| 20 | The only problem is that the number of treatment combinations resulting is usually considerable so that large blocks must be tolerated or confounding introduced . |
| 21 | The movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism , and there 's a sustained central performance from Iain Glen , but the big problem is that the subject himself is not fascinating in the way the Krays were . |
| 22 | The main problem is that the stored sound can be lost when the thin layer of aluminium which coats a CD 's plastic surface is oxidised , losing its ability to reflect laser light . |
| 23 | The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them . |
| 24 | ‘ The main problem is that the illness makes her foodpipe so sore that she drinks only milk and rarely eats solids . |
| 25 | But Galtung concludes that the main problem is that the target of loyalty , which is the family , is ill-adapted to operating at the level on which new institutions will emerge . |
| 26 | The main problem is that the policy approach that has evolved is no longer seen as efficient . |
| 27 | Possibly the main problem is that the Keynesian model is only short-term and in the short-run , it is not always easy to predict the effects of policy changes , and the management of the economy , therefore , may become very erratic . |
| 28 | The underlying problem is that the legislation only touches the surface of the disadvantages that women face , which are more deeply rooted than individual instances of overt discrimination . |