Example sentences of "[art] trouble [is] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The trouble is that phosphates act as nutrients for green plants and the minute algae that grow on the surface of slow-moving water .
2 The trouble is that directors involved in buying the company from existing shareholders clearly face a conflict between their own interests ( as buyers ) and their shareholders ' interests ( as sellers ) .
3 The trouble is that things are not equal , and he can hardly remember placing a woman in such a job .
4 The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary .
5 The trouble is that banks , investment houses and insurers are now in competition with each other .
6 The trouble is that governments have always intervened in energy , usually with a bias in favour of production .
7 The trouble is that governments are said to manage demand and work out the inflation-employment trade-off with party political electoral considerations uppermost in their minds .
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