Example sentences of "problem is that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency . |
| 2 | The only problem is that the Soviet side insists there is nothing new . |
| 3 | The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population . |
| 4 | The problem is that the additional functionality provided by Unix vendors — the bells and whistles which differentiate and position their products in the market — all require further APIs , rendering different Unix implementations incompatible in certain areas . |
| 5 | The problem is that the additional task has sometimes been found to facilitate performance in the visual field opposite the supposedly activated hemisphere and in other cases has been found to impair performance . |
| 6 | The only problem is that the Dutch have not really been very good at the game since Dr Euwe retired . |
| 7 | The problem is that the European convention only really gives expression to traditional liberal and democratic freedoms bearing on such things as freedom of association , speech , belief , the press , and so on . |
| 8 | He says one problem is that the new scheme for support from the DOT involves putting packages together that must cost at least £2 million and it 's quite hard to find a package of cycle-ways that actually cost that much ! |
| 9 | As Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi of India has pointed out the real practical problem is that the rich will evade very high rates of tax . |
| 10 | The problem is that the vast majority of stand alone fax machines are set up to send faxes in low resolution . |
| 11 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 12 | The problem is that the abysmal ignorance of science in Britain , especially among the educated classes , leads to a complete inability to assess developments . |
| 13 | The problem is that the massive increase in objective culture has not been appropriated by the subject in such a way that material goods become the instrument of the subject 's self-development through the sublation of its own projections ; instead , the subject confronts the world of material goods as an alien sphere . |
| 14 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 15 | A further problem is that the governing authority of quangos often consists of a board or council . |
| 16 | Possibly the main problem is that the Keynesian model is only short-term and in the short-run , it is not always easy to predict the effects of policy changes , and the management of the economy , therefore , may become very erratic . |
| 17 | the problem is that the radioactive material has a half life of about thirty years … this means that it 'll be three decades before the material becomes half as radioactive as when it was first leaked … and a century before it is safe to humans . |
| 18 | Another problem is that the prosperous middle classes — who pay high marginal income tax rates themselves — exaggerate the importance that taxation plays in most people 's family budgets . |
| 19 | ‘ The problem is that the missing person was going to marry a junior Treasury Minister . ’ |
| 20 | The main problem is that the stored sound can be lost when the thin layer of aluminium which coats a CD 's plastic surface is oxidised , losing its ability to reflect laser light . |