Example sentences of "[art] [noun] with [adj] [be] that " in BNC.

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1 The difficulty with this is that unless there are well-established efficiency measures for the services of the department neither it nor its users will know whether they are getting value for money .
2 The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science .
3 The difficulty with this is that it is an appeal to the future , and it concedes the debate about the present to the Right .
4 The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow .
5 The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose .
6 The difficulty with this is that if Individuals-do not choose consciously to subvert democracy — as Mills has argued — why is it that the military and the large corporations as institutions have to dominate the political system and subvert liberal democracy ?
7 The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant .
8 The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation .
9 The snag with this is that it is often impossible to avoid the triggering events altogether and in any case it might be better to face them squarely and control your reactions to the events rather than the events themselves .
10 The snag with this is that the suppressed feelings are still experienced internally rather than avoided or prevented .
11 The Prime Minister won a strong ovation when she added : ‘ The trouble with Labour is that they 're just not at home with freedom .
12 The trouble with that is that others may not be astute as they are in identifying impending crises , and will take some convincing if a crisis is not obvious .
13 ( The trouble with that was that so many All Blacks and Springboks and older British Internationals were at the University he would be better advised to wait a year or two . )
14 The trouble with this is that if it did n't work it might be because the conditions and catalysts are wrong .
15 The trouble with this is that the viewer , to whom the sea appears to be uniformly blue in the sense of ‘ appears ’ in question , may , in fact , think that the sea merely reflects the colour of the sky , or even that colours exist only in the mind .
16 The trouble with this is that , although the plants are meant to bloom at the same time , invariably some flower later or earlier , and ruin the whole carefully thought-out scheme .
17 The trouble with this was that the laws of mechanics and electricity , before quantum mechanics , predicted that the electrons would lose energy and so spiral inward until they collided with the nucleus .
18 . And the idea with these is that when you get reimbursed for expenses , you put the receipt into the expense envelopes then at the end of the month , erm , you would staple the envelope and attach it to your company expense claim or you know , throw it at the person who 's going to give your money back or whatever .
19 The problem with that was that every time me and James played , we played with varying degrees of attack on our guitars so we were constantly out of tune with each other because the strings were flapping around so much . ’
20 The problem with these is that at the moment they end we say " Thank God that 's over ! " and return to eating " normally " — " normally " being all the rubbish we ate before .
21 The problem with this is that most people still want , at some stage in their lives , formal ( that is to say legal ) recognition of their commitment to one another .
22 However , the problem with this is that a group of children see the same entertainer time after time .
23 The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training .
24 The problem with this is that although all that shows in column C is a time , the cell really contains the whole date serial number and this will mess up the arithmetic discussed later ( see Step 8 ) to calculate duration .
25 The problem with this is that in doing so you are taking a risk : perhaps you are misunderstanding what you read , and so your notes become an incorrect version of what was said .
26 The problem with this is that it will drive up the exchange rate and thus make it harder for firms to export .
27 But is , is , I mean w w what we 've said so far is that the problem with this is that there is n't enough land and therefore it encroaches on the middle peasant and , and that 's the problem , that 's the reason you had to change your policy .
28 The problem with this is that discovering what untrained ( or ‘ naive ’ ) speakers feel about their own language is not as easy as it might sound .
29 The problem with this was that although Dawn was interested in the chick , once she was airborne she also realised that she had freedom and that 's very attractive , too !
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