Example sentences of "problem was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Another source of problems was the presence of some errors within the text .
2 During the 1980s , the NUT in particular seemed , at times , to oppose all education reform on principle ; its main prescription for educational problems was the pumping of more money into the system .
3 ‘ . Among the juridical problems was the effect on other treaty parties , third parties to the devolution agreement .
4 Erm our view was that there are erm problems associated with er an inner relief road and one of one of those problems was the amount of traffic that would pass through End at Knaresborough , there was a lot of concern as we spelt out to members in our er committee report that erm traffic erm along Forest Lane Head towards Knaresborough along the A existing A fifty nine corridor , would actually increase over the do nothing situation .
5 One of these problems was the need to introduce the study ( traditionally neglected in institutions like ours ) of modern foreign languages .
6 Alexander realized that the root cause of many problems was the over-tightening of the neck muscles , causing an interference with the Primary Control and so throwing the whole body out of balance .
7 No , the problem was a licence with such potential being turned into such a diabolical arcade adventure .
8 Once again the problem was a lack of suitable replacements should Woodrop go , and Graham indeed considered the bailie-substitute indispensable , for
9 My final solution to the problem was a bit risky , but not as risky as the alternatives — or so I thought !
10 But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland .
11 He said that the real problem was a failure of local government funding .
12 A subsidiary problem was a reluctance to raise rateable values , the basis of the property tax , in line with market prices .
13 Some of its canons were concerned with the veneration of images , but the chief problem was the position of Photius as patriarch of Constantinople .
14 But in fact the problem was the position of Castro and of the communist regime in Cuba .
15 But in fact the problem was the position of Castro and of the communist regime in Cuba .
16 Another problem was the position of some 130,000 civil servants that are part of the railway 's workforce and have significantly better terms and conditions of employment than the other employees .
17 The problem experienced when using actual income to measure expected income would disappear under this two-stage procedure , since the source of the problem was the correlation between v t and the measure used for .
18 Early in the 1880s , Waterman realized that the problem was the feed .
19 Only problem was the price .
20 The main problem was the difficulty of reaching agreement about eliminating the many non-tariff barriers ( NTBs ) which hindered free movement .
21 Another problem was the oedema he was getting under his stomach and around his sheath .
22 The problem was the law 's strict insistence on privity of relations in personam .
23 On the field , the recurring problem was the inability to turn critical periods to advantage : never more obvious than in the 1990–91 Ashes series : this in a decade when failure , far from being excused , was despised , claim Scott and Cook in the most questionable of their conclusions .
24 The real problem was the mobilization of resources : Edward experienced difficulty in collecting revenue in England , and relations between the king 's advisers in Brabant , chief amongst whom were the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl of Northampton , and the council in England , dominated by the clerical ministers of state , gradually deteriorated .
25 In selecting the area to be defended , those responsible , presumably military engineers , chose the most convenient and economical line , and where there was a well planned core of gridded streets , this was not too difficult ; the real problem was the case of settlements which were long strips of ribbon development along a road .
26 We put the machine to the test removing rust from a section of decorative ironwork and the only problem was the tendency of the disc to bite into the metal if too much pressure was applied .
27 A further problem was the tendency of some parents to take their children on holiday during term time .
28 He said that how that the real problem was the expansion of the C C P between nineteen thirty seven to forty seven and the inadequate training .
29 A partial answer to this problem was the building of hundreds of windmills to pump water back into the specially constructed drainage channels , and these were succeeded by steam pumps ( see Stretham ) .
30 The problem was the lack of resources ; a choice had to be made .
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