Example sentences of "problem [was/were] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was that no one stayed with him , and England subsided to 174 all out . |
| 2 | Their problem was that no one knew how to go about it . |
| 3 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 4 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 5 | ‘ The problem was that an insurance broker is not asset-backed . |
| 6 | The problem was that the EC is split between the smaller countries which want the Commission to review a takeover when combined turnover of the two companies involved exceeds Ecu2bn ( about £1.4bn ) ; and the larger ones , like the UK , France and Germany , who think a Ecu5bn threshold is sufficient . |
| 7 | The problem was that the will of the people could vary from week to week , from speaker to speaker , making consistency almost impossible . |
| 8 | The main problem was that the socio-political implications of scientific and technological change were not thought through thoroughly . |
| 9 | The problem was that the provisions of the Coal Act had never been tested in court . |
| 10 | The problem was that the spire was just a little too tall and too thin for its own good . |
| 11 | The new initiatives of the left made a start by identifying strategic sectors of the economy in which to intervene , rather than adopting a blanket approach to all firms in their area — but the problem was that the local authorities were still geographically limited . |
| 12 | The problem was that the robots were usually too big and would not fit into the existing booths . |
| 13 | The only problem was that the coastline awarded to Poland lacked a single port larger than a fishing village along its entire length and was therefore virtually useless to a modern state . |
| 14 | One problem was that the Normans were taking far more out in payments than their predecessors . |
| 15 | Mr Appleby said he was told that one problem was that the crew did n't have time to clear the ferry properly because of the tight turnaround schedule en route . |
| 16 | One general problem was that the very number of international organisations had divided the democracies and had created several different Western Europes . |
| 17 | Another problem was that the show business element attracted a different kind of spectator . |
| 18 | One problem was that the RHA needed to ensure that any mental illness initiative was not inequitable with respect to the other neglected client groups . |
| 19 | The problem was that the premises of his own theory required the answer to this question to remain always in abeyance , while his text enacts rather than resolves the equivocality of the choice which it sets up . |
| 20 | Our major problem was that the authorities were late in finalising the small print . |
| 21 | The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote . |
| 22 | The central problem was that the chronically unemployed could not be covered by insurance . |
| 23 | SVR General Manager Michael Draper has confirmed that the problem was that the wheels of the 8F were coming into intermittent contact with the frames . |
| 24 | A basic , underlying problem was that the Soviets never accepted Kissinger 's concept of ‘ linkage ’ whereby the Kremlin would desist from harming Western interests in return for concessions . |
| 25 | The problem was that the cultural experience offered by an education in science and technology was in practice a completely different kind of experience . |
| 26 | But the main problem was that the PNP plank of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ turned out to be fairly meaningless . |
| 27 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 28 | Thus , if the original problem was that the monetary sector as a whole was critically short of base money , then the attempt by individual banks to improve their own position by raising interest rates will be self-defeating . |
| 29 | ‘ A second problem was that the Aberthaw Fisher , the heavy-lift ship best suited for the job , was already involved in another charter . |
| 30 | The basic problem was that the switch from autarchy to internationalism had not been fully effected : a free-market economy could not exist as long as its component parts — especially investment , supply of raw materials , and the purchasing power of the domestic market — were still closely controlled by the state . |