Example sentences of "problem [be] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its answer to the problem is either that it is entitled to more money from central Government , regardless of how much its rate support grant for the social services sector has risen , or that it needs the unfettered right to raise further taxes locally . |
| 2 | Like Heidegger , he understands that the root of the problem is not that we are born black or Jewish or rich or blind , but that we are born at all and much of his best writing deals with that most fundamental of displacements . |
| 3 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 4 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 5 | When a person suffers from this lack of personal commitment , the problem is not that he can not genuinely believe something but that he will not genuinely believe anything . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , the problem is n't that I do n't want to pay you your salary . |
| 7 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 8 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 9 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |