Example sentences of "problem [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in any doubt whether a fact is implied you should ‘ play safe ’ and take the problem each way , that is , first on the assumption that the fact exists and then on the assumption that it does not exist . |
| 2 | But , as I have said , your opinion on this should not ( except in a completely unarguable case ) deter you from taking the problem each way . |
| 3 | It is well worth pausing from time to time to clarify what problem each person thinks he or she is solving . |
| 4 | The problem each system faced was that the matching process created a large number of partial solutions , and various heuristics had to be used to cut down the search space . |
| 5 | There is a problem that way , as he can not take his dogs over the border . |
| 6 | But Smart may have owed his freedom in some measure to a House of Commons Committee of Enquiry into the problem that year . |
| 7 | Industry statistics have shown that engineers can waste 40% of their time searching for information , and it is this problem that VirtualStation addresses . |
| 8 | Racism , patently , was a problem that required urgent attention . |
| 9 | er problem That 's right ! |
| 10 | They debated unhappily , reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion , until John Prophet suggested sadly that in the circumstances it might be well to consult the archbishop of Canterbury , and in some relief they agreed on this course , and carried their problem that same afternoon to Lambeth ; where Thomas Arundel , on the force of whose word and influence they could rely , advised them , in consideration of the desperate need , to issue the required letters patent , and he would be responsible for defending their action to the king , should it need any defence . |
| 11 | By mid-1990 the government acknowledged that the threat posed by " military rightists " was a more serious problem that which emanated from the insurgency campaign of the communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 12 | In explaining each point , I shall begin by posing a problem that the living machine faces ; then I shall consider possible solutions to the problem that a sensible engineer might consider ; I shall finally come to the solution that nature has actually adopted . |
| 13 | Just looking for a solution to the problem that 's all ! |
| 14 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |
| 15 | Self-belief has been a problem this season and has not been helped by narrow defeats against Wasps ( 11–7 ) , Saracens ( 13–12 ) and London Irish ( 12–9 ) and a 9–9 draw with Rugby . |
| 16 | The problem this poses for the educationalist is formidable because , as well as designing curricula that will help the surveyor cope with future changes , he has also to provide the basis of a training experience to enable him to cope with contemporary practice . |
| 17 | No problem this time and we have the chance to wonder once more how the tragic massacre could have taken place in such a beautiful spot . |
| 18 | The problem this creates for Christianity is that a part of the turning to faith in our generation may be only a reflection of the psychological and sociological undercurrents of our time . |
| 19 | The question of diet generally for elderly people has already been mentioned in Chapter 3 , and all who are trying to ensure that an elderly parent ( particularly one who is living alone ) is eating sensibly know what a difficult problem this is . |
| 20 | The heart of his argument is that Lab-our activists , at least since Ramsay MacDonald 's betrayal in 1931 , have distrusted their leaders , and he quotes Sidney Webb 's analysis of the problem this causes : ‘ The constituency parties are frequently unrepresentative groups of nonentities dominated by fanatics , cranks and extremists . |
| 21 | Our problem this season has been stopping them . |
| 22 | I 've been considering the problem this afternoon . |
| 23 | One problem this poses is that the Education Act ( 1981 ) specifically excludes from special educational provision children whose difficulties arise because of a non-English language background : |
| 24 | There is no easy solution to the problem this creates for treaty parties : it is to their advantage that a treaty be widely recognised as normative , and they can not deny the application of customary law to a single State . |
| 25 | No impotence problem this time . |
| 26 | Just how complicated a problem this may turn out to be is indicated by the following quotations from the opening paragraphs of the first two chapters of Christine Hugh-Jones ' very remarkable book From the Milk River , which is a study of Pira-pirana Indians living in the Vaupes region of Colombia , as viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of a single longhouse community in which she and her husband resided for two years between September 1968 and December 1970 : |
| 27 | He said : ‘ The problem this season has been that many of the sites have not fished very well at all . |
| 28 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 29 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 30 | A conference was held by the UN to discuss the problem this summer , following on from last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but was mainly devoted to national issues such as data collection and dispute settlement . |