Example sentences of "problem [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 2 | To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time . |
| 3 | One of the main problems is that professionals often ask parents to keep the child under observation all day . |
| 4 | But er one of the major problems is that surgeons are trying to use less and less anaesthetic all the time . |
| 5 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |
| 6 | The other problem is that tasks honoured with a separate colour on-screen may not appear emphasized on a black and white printout . |
| 7 | The problem is that roads and pavements are often too busy , noisy or polluted to make walking a pleasant alternative to driving . |
| 8 | The only problem is that Ian wants to get married and I do n't . ’ |
| 9 | The problem is that China 's generation and transmission technology is some 10 to 20 years behind the West with significant power losses at both the generation and transmission stages . |
| 10 | A particularly common problem is that owners economise on expensive canned food and over feed with mixer and biscuits . |
| 11 | The biggest problem is that loggers do not replace the felled trees with new saplings ; the option of creating plantations is largely ignored . |
| 12 | The problem is that Weller , ever earnest , has internalized too thoroughly the edict Rock is Dead . |
| 13 | One solution to the problem is that monopoles within the Sun catalyse certain nuclear fusion reactions , but not those that produce the neutrinos detected here on Earth . |
| 14 | The problem is that users are not a homogeneous group and their needs may conflict . |
| 15 | The underlying problem is that cases concerning the employment rights of public employees often raise both public law and private law issues which are not easily separable , if at all . |
| 16 | The problem is that UK households , like US ones , are struggling to repay the debts they took on in the boom years of the 1980s , he explained . |
| 17 | Another problem is that reactions such as halide exchange may occur during disk preparation , and it is sometimes necessary to evacuate the die during pressing to prevent oxidation of samples under the extreme pressure . |
| 18 | ‘ The problem is that Israel wants to choose both teams on the football field , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 19 | The problem is that employers are apt to underestimate the value of direct discussion with executives who figure in their job-cutting plans . |
| 20 | Part of the problem is that Americans are so used to seeing slick TV presenters on the small screen that they take exception to watching badly-dressed businessmen who lack the skills of professional performers . |
| 21 | The problem is that rock-climbers do all the hardest stuff in this game . |
| 22 | The problem is that XPG is like defining an English language . |
| 23 | The problem is that XPG is like defining an English language . |
| 24 | The problem is that Conservatives are not consistent in their policies . |
| 25 | Fifth , listen to the real customers — and not just the information systems managers of IBM 's 10 top mainframe customers — part of the problem is that IBM pays too much attention to their needs and not enough to what 's going on elsewhere , says Smith . |
| 26 | The problem is that Pan Am is also in chapter 11 and some people are wondering if the airline that pioneered many of America 's routes across the world will soon follow Eastern into liquidation . |
| 27 | The problem is that Reich only took half of Freud 's theory , and ignored the role of the death instincts which were developed in the later theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 28 | The problem is that Taurus tried to be too nice to everyone and did n't tread too hard on the banks ’ toes . ’ |
| 29 | The first problem is that Stratford is totally dependent upon the construction of the fast link to the tunnel via the east coast and Kent . |
| 30 | A second problem is that utterances like ( 101 ) Harry can only speak this loud are token-reflexive to the physical properties of the utterance itself , so that not only do the enormous technical problems of dealing with token-reflexives in a logical manner have to be solved , but all the physical properties of an utterance will also have to be available as indices ( requiring , again , an indefinite number of indices ) . |