Example sentences of "the [adj] problem was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining problem was that although all the physical activities of the Branch , except for the field work , were concentrated in one place at Farnborough , our offices were still with the Department of Trade in central London . |
| 2 | The central problem was that the chronically unemployed could not be covered by insurance . |
| 3 | One of the real problems was that there were too many badly built , badly designed buildings in the wrong location which the tenants do n't want . ’ |
| 4 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 5 | The real problem was that many students felt unable to ask for help when they were in difficulty . |
| 6 | The basic problem was that the switch from autarchy to internationalism had not been fully effected : a free-market economy could not exist as long as its component parts — especially investment , supply of raw materials , and the purchasing power of the domestic market — were still closely controlled by the state . |
| 7 | The major problem was that these were ill patients in whom the slightest disturbance caused a major exacerbation of their underlying medical condition . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the major problems was that McDonnell Douglas had two packages — one developed for payroll , one for personnel . |
| 9 | Now , this is not an Oxford cartoon either , but it 's a looting soldier , and very much , I think , underlines what people felt about soldiers around the place , and to go back to the overcrowding , erm the great problem was that constantly not only soldiers , but a great many other people , court officials , court servants , barbers , whoever , erm all had to found accommodation , and because St Aldate 's was so near the court , a great many of them were of course connected with the court , they had some high ranking ones . |
| 10 | The essential problem was that he could not visualize action or dynamic behaviour upon the stage ; he understood only words and the power of rhetorical statement . |
| 11 | The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it . |
| 12 | The only problem was that my present wife , Isabella Rossellini , also insisted I come to lessons with our daughter , to make sure she was happy . |
| 13 | The only problem was that convertibles are a bit hard to come by in New York . |
| 14 | The only problem was that the coastline awarded to Poland lacked a single port larger than a fishing village along its entire length and was therefore virtually useless to a modern state . |
| 15 | The only problem was that they were boring . |
| 16 | The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London . |
| 17 | The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote . |
| 18 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 19 | The only problem was that we were not trying to promote it . |
| 20 | The only problem was that it did n't work out quite as we were expecting it to … |
| 21 | The only problem was that it was n't hers . |
| 22 | The only problem was that some fans broke the granny 's fence and scared the cat . |
| 23 | If the only problem was that the price of gold , fixed prewar at $35 an ounce , had to be adjusted for the wartime inflation in order to secure an adequate supply , then perhaps doubling the gold price would do the trick . |
| 24 | The only problem was that there was no space to walk ! |
| 25 | The only problem was if — he corrected himself — when it came , which side turning , if any , would it use . |
| 26 | Erm but of course the the other problem was that that blues parties erm were also places where a lot of ganja was smoked . |
| 27 | The main problem was that all the furniture had to be scaled down to suit the smaller stature of the Japanese and to fit their smaller homes . |
| 28 | The main problem was that everyone seemed to assume that Gouzenko was an expert on every facet of Russian intelligence operations . |
| 29 | The main problem was that the socio-political implications of scientific and technological change were not thought through thoroughly . |
| 30 | The main problem was that many graduates did not want to go to units where conditions were not seen as ‘ suitable ’ to their requirements . |