Example sentences of "[adj] problem [be] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further problem was that it would be difficult for rescue services to locate us in these weather conditions . |
| 2 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 3 | But the real problem is that it reaches mainly those who need it least . |
| 4 | A second problem is that it seems somehow contradictory that to should have meaning in some of its uses but not in others . |
| 5 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 6 | However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal . |
| 7 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 8 | The IS coordinator , for example , suggested that : the only problem is that it 's developing too fast . |
| 9 | The only problem is that it can be terribly difficult to read — and you do want them to read the copy do n't you ? |
| 10 | We now have a splendid new bypass road for which thank you very much , the only problem is that it has halved the traffic but doubled the speeds . |
| 11 | The only problem is that it now takes a baffling turn . |
| 12 | The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The one I ca n't wait for is the European Cup on April 16–20 , ’ says the talented teenager , quipping : ‘ The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe ! ’ |
| 14 | The only problem was that it did n't work out quite as we were expecting it to … |
| 15 | The only problem was that it was n't hers . |
| 16 | The first problem is that it is easy to determine the incorrect stem of a word ( e.g. mother → moth + er ) . |
| 17 | HP is not in a hurry to rush to OSF/1 , Owen says , because the applications are n't there , but ‘ the big problem is that it [ OSF/1 ] is n't called Unix . |
| 18 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 19 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 20 | But the main problem is that it is far more difficult to teach a new spoken dialect because so many aspects of spoken production are automatic and below the level of conscious control . |
| 21 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 22 | Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are . |