Example sentences of "[adj] problem [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further problem is that no one is quite sure exactly what defines health care and social care , since an individual 's progress in responding to treatment is often measured by an improvement in the performance of social care tasks and everyday activities . |
| 2 | A further problem is that a BAe takeover would strengthen German objections to Ferranti winning the radar contract for the European Fighter Aircraft since it would mean BAe gaining a disproportionately large share of the total project . |
| 3 | A further problem is that the governing authority of quangos often consists of a board or council . |
| 4 | A further problem is that the promotion , pay and career development of officials may be outside the control of immediate superiors and hence it may be difficult for the departmental head to have much impact upon the work , the responsibilities , the morale and the development of individuals within the organisation . |
| 5 | Another aspect of this problem is that the permission of the occupier may be extended to the visitor for a fixed period of time and thereafter the visitor becomes a trespasser , and is outside the scope of the OLA 1957 . |
| 6 | Another problem is whether the parties have thereby lost their right to terminate the entire treaty on either of these grounds because of the acceptance of a right or obligation by a third party . |
| 7 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 8 | Another problem is that the wildlife lobby is divided even over simple things like the future of old farm woodlands . |
| 9 | Another problem is that the rain has advanced many crops , telescoping the harvest , he explains . |
| 10 | Another problem is that the prosperous middle classes — who pay high marginal income tax rates themselves — exaggerate the importance that taxation plays in most people 's family budgets . |
| 11 | Another problem is that the Ministry of Education itself can not retain highly qualified and experienced staff because of low pay and poor conditions . |
| 12 | Another problem is that the chains in polyacetylene are not neatly ordered , but convoluted and higgledy-piggledy . |
| 13 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 14 | Another problem is that the output voltage of transformers seldom correspond exactly to the rated voltage . |
| 15 | Another problem is that the YTM yield curve does not distinguish between the different payment patterns of low-coupon bonds and high-coupon bonds with the same maturity . |
| 16 | The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand . |
| 17 | The real problem is that the Government refuses to accept what the Maastricht Treaty is about . |
| 18 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 19 | ‘ Publishers are concerned about dwindling hardback sales ; but the real problem is that the price of most hardbacks deters people from buying them . |
| 20 | I mean , the real problem is that the rating system is out of date , it 's based on a rating valuation which was last updated in 1973 and has n't been updated since . |
| 21 | The first standard problem is that the market is not perfectly competitive . |
| 22 | An additional problem is that the most heavily used motorways are being designed to carry 100 million standard axles over 20 years . |
| 23 | An additional problem is that the resource requirements for the necessary development work may result in a degraded service to lexicographers and may displace the interactive work of lexicographers from time to time . |
| 24 | One additional problem is that the voltage.controlled oscillator is unable to provide the pause between step commands needed at the beginning of the deceleration period so that the rotor can advance beyond the excited phase equilibrium position ; the control of individual phase excitation timings available with the other open-loop schemes can not be produced with the voltage-controlled oscillator technique . |
| 25 | An additional problem is that the stimuli over which the relationships were observed were just six exemplars each of only ten junctions . |
| 26 | The second problem is that a lax competition policy might be used by a member state as a substitute for trade policy or industrial policy , to protect domestic producers or to promote export sectors . |
| 27 | The second problem is that the effects of inflation make the relationship between calculated rates of charge for credit and its real-life costs already difficult enough to grasp — virtually incomprehensible . |
| 28 | A second problem is that the SupersPORT has a bastardized type of CGA , known as double-scan CGA . |
| 29 | The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population . |
| 30 | A second problem is that the calculation of the half-life of carbon 14 is still being refined . |