Example sentences of "[adj] problem [is] [that] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be .
3 The IS coordinator , for example , suggested that : the only problem is that it 's developing too fast .
4 The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe . ’
5 ‘ 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 ! ’
6 Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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