Example sentences of "problem [is] [that] it [is] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The first problem is that it is easy to determine the incorrect stem of a word ( e.g. mother → moth + er ) .
2 Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) .
3 The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be .
4 The problem is that it is hard .
5 The problem is that it is hard to equate this kind of growth with that of any known animal group .
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