Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] problem [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 2 | But Galtung concludes that the main problem is that the target of loyalty , which is the family , is ill-adapted to operating at the level on which new institutions will emerge . |
| 3 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 4 | I asked him if the fundamental problem is that those who have are too selfish to help . |
| 5 | But the real problem is that it reaches mainly those who need it least . |
| 6 | ‘ Publishers are concerned about dwindling hardback sales ; but the real problem is that the price of most hardbacks deters people from buying them . |
| 7 | But the real problem is that no matter how reactionary their articles seem to be the writers still tend to be enmeshed in the thought patterns of the Straightworld even when deriding it , which can only work like walking on a treadmill towards the new World . |
| 8 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 9 | The movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism , and there 's a sustained central performance from Iain Glen , but the big problem is that the subject himself is not fascinating in the way the Krays were . |
| 10 | Staff deliver a quality service to the customer but the big problem is that there is insufficient staff to do the job properly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is good , but the main problem is that not enough black families are coming forward . ’ |
| 13 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 14 | 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 . |