Example sentences of "problem [be] [conj] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle . |
| 2 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 3 | One of the main problems is that there is a clear separation between the various specialties , each of which has its own payment for a case . |
| 4 | For energy planners in Europe in the early 1980s one of the main problems is that there is no immediate problem . |
| 5 | And er the need of this particular problem is unless there 's an area whereby there is an accident risk they wo n't bother with it . |
| 6 | Well , basically her problem is that she is afraid of nobody . |
| 7 | The problem is that there 's little to offer in between ; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 8 | ‘ The problem is that there 's hardly any around . ’ |
| 9 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 10 | The problem is that there is nothing remotely central about these places at all . |
| 11 | The problem is that there is no good a priori reason to alter the binding of one pronoun before the other ; both options should , ideally , be handed to the reasoner at once . |
| 12 | One other problem is that there is an assumption that everyone will practice their religion in the same way . |
| 13 | The historian 's problem is that there is insufficient archaeological or documentary evidence to establish the chronology of this process . |
| 14 | The problem is that there is no mechanism to focus that role . |
| 15 | The second , and much deeper , problem is that there is still far too little agreement about the themes and content in the curriculum of top juniors so that different primary schools which will ‘ feed ’ a secondary school are working on a degree of common curricular ground . |
| 16 | The problem is that there is no satisfactory way of drawing a line between decisions of corporate managers which ought to be respected because they are based solely on the expertise of the directors and those which should be challenged as based on personal considerations or other non-corporate purposes . |
| 17 | On a macroscopic level , the problem is that there is no allowance for diversity of musical practice or song-type . |
| 18 | The problem is that there is a special policy of using custody sparingly for young offenders ( e.g. s.1(4A) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 ) , and some of their offences are not particularly serious . |
| 19 | The problem is that there is little agreement over how this control should operate and what form it should take . |
| 20 | The real problem is that there is no democracy in Scotland . |
| 21 | The problem is that there is no stage in the model in Figure 16 where damage should cause the specific behaviour of identifying words by slow serial identification of their individual letters . |
| 22 | A major problem is that there is no reason why we choose the referents that we do other than the fact that they may be someone we know or whose occupation we have information about . |
| 23 | Staff deliver a quality service to the customer but the big problem is that there is insufficient staff to do the job properly . |
| 24 | The problem is that there is a principle at stake . |
| 25 | I 've had four tickets , but the problem is that there is nowhere to park , and you have to put your car somewhere . |
| 26 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 27 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 28 | The problem is that it is hard . |
| 29 | The problem is that it is hard to equate this kind of growth with that of any known animal group . |
| 30 | The problem is that it is not just life expectancy that determines whether the child has this ‘ right to live ’ ; often handicaps such as Down 's Syndrome which is one of the primary forms of mental handicap identified by tests , are considered such a burden both to the child and the family that the pregnancy will be terminated . |