Example sentences of "trouble [is] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The trouble is that nobody knows where the road leads .
2 The trouble is that nobody can speak for the whole profession because of the various ways in which the profession is divided .
3 ‘ The trouble is that nobody seems able to tell me when I 'm likely to get any money !
4 One trouble is that one would n't know for which integers k , if any , the replacement of x by x + k would change the given polynomial into Eisenstein form .
5 The trouble is that what is measured differs from medium to medium , and , therefore , cost measurements differ almost completely between , say , TV and posters in what they are costs of .
6 But the trouble is that they do not account for anything like all the shares of most firms .
7 The trouble is that they seem not to .
8 Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories !
9 The only trouble is that they grow up .
10 The trouble is that they do not fluctuate around the ‘ right ’ average if ‘ right ’ is to be measured by purchasing power .
11 Whilst this particular breed of company may be able to deliver efficient , cross-platform solutions , the trouble is that they are mostly too small to have any major significance for the industry as a whole .
12 ‘ The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics , and they are entering too much into policy decisions .
13 Well , the trouble is that they 've got a closed
14 The trouble is that we do n't see .
15 The trouble is that we forget to let go of the tension .
16 The trouble is that we live in a part of the world in which many people depend on Unix — not to fight Microsoft and NT , but to earn their living — and there are too many unknowns .
17 Well , perhaps the trouble is that we wrote down Maxwell 's equations in a stationary frame of reference .
18 ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky .
19 The trouble is that we do n't know what that something is .
20 The real trouble is that we hand over £18 a week for every family in Britain — a total of £14,000 million — through the common agricultural policy .
21 Now the trouble is that we have been the victim of those successes .
22 The trouble is that we did n't have our leaflets ready because when you d er depend on large firms to help you , you know they 're always just so busy when you need them , so it was dragged out .
23 The trouble is that we do n't know erm , whether the manual will meet the standard .
24 The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries .
25 The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is .
26 ‘ The trouble is that there is such a high level of expectancy , ’ she says .
27 ‘ The trouble is that there is such a high level of expectancy , ’ she says .
28 The trouble is that there are some things even X-rays , penetrating as they are , can not reveal .
29 The trouble is that there are just not enough places available at the moment , and in recent years local authorities have been unable to provide more owing to the shortage of funds and the cash limits imposed on local authority expenditure by central government .
30 The trouble is that there are so many ways of continuing , so many alternatives and possibilities , that it would be wrong to advise him by saying that one procedure is better than another .
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