Example sentences of "the [num ord] problem was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second problem was the influx of men trying to enter the ministry by the end of the century ; if we look at ministers actively engaged in church work in 1901 we see that three out of every ten Primitive Methodists , four out of every ten Wesleyans , five out of every ten Congregationalists and seven out of every ten Baptists had entered the ministry in the 1890s . |
| 2 | The second problem was of a more subtle kind , and was well formulated by Lessing himself . |
| 3 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 4 | The second problem was overcome by specifying TYPE=QUANTILE . |
| 5 | The first problem was order in the Church of England . |
| 6 | The first problem was not simply a lack of data : indeed , for two years , the EPA , which was funding the programme , could not decide where to start . |
| 7 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 8 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 9 | The first problem was where did I film ? |
| 10 | The next problem was , he admits , entirely of his own making . |
| 11 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 12 | The next problem was far more serious . |
| 13 | The next problem was who should go to the hotel to act as a witness . |
| 14 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 15 | The next problem was the site . |
| 16 | The next problem was premises . |
| 17 | The next problem was how to move the 160 tonne load across Scotland . |
| 18 | The next problem was to bring in a small phone box . |