Example sentences of "['s] problem was [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucester 's problem was that they still could not win enough of the ball . |
| 2 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 3 | Barlaston 's problem was that it sat astride a geological fault ( i.e. the junction of two different types of substrata ) . |
| 4 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 5 | As I said , part of Barny 's problem was that he 'd never had any contact with people at all , and by the time I got him it was too late . |
| 6 | Caroline 's problem was that she felt quite unable to make decisions . |
| 7 | Catherine 's problem was that she was an extremely clever woman with a real talent for mysticism , but she never found a spiritual director who was either intelligent or knowledgeable enough to control her and lead her beyond this perilous psychic hinterland . |
| 8 | Léonie 's problem was that she could not count . |
| 9 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 10 | ‘ Heather 's problem was that she did n't feel she belonged , Mr Barnett . |