Example sentences of "to the problem " in BNC.

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31 The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment .
32 Yet though the issue of unemployment exerted considerable impact upon British politics it does not appear that Britain 's political parties came up with much in the way of a meaningful solution to the problem .
33 Brando 's self-parody is one solution to the problem of how to grow old gracefully ; how to cope with the weight of past achievements .
34 Newspapers and magazine offices in Britain and Australia turned their fertile imaginations to the problem at hand .
35 We are therefore brought back to the problem which Weismann felt was insoluble .
36 The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication .
37 Although technology to reduce pollution could make a significant contribution to the problem , the industry showed ‘ minimal ’ commitment to innovation , research and development , it said .
38 Jacques produced an ingenious and effective solution to the problem .
39 Farms in DRAs tend to be far less capital intensive than those in the more advantaged areas , and though as a result , are perhaps less exposed to the problem of debt-servicing than wealthier farmers , their incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices .
40 Though Howard believed himself to be championing Joseph 's cause , his solution to the problem was simply to compensate the Wellamotkin band for its removal to Lapwai .
41 The Labour government will make itself available to our friends in India and Pakistan to assist in achieving a negotiated solution to the problem of Kashmir that is acceptable to all the people of Kashmir — Moslems , Hindus and Buddhists .
42 The spread of the motor car , which pushes out oxides of nitrogen f exhausts , adds to the problem .
43 One of the most controversial religious works of the 1960s , John Robinson 's Honest to God , is a well-written and clear introduction ( from a Christian perspective ) to the problem of defining what God is , and the difficulty of bringing together theological description , popular imagery and the language of worship .
44 Traditional approaches to the problem of defining God 's nature have often concentrated upon running through a list of divine attributes and classifying them in various forms .
45 One approach to the problem has been to think of the world as God 's body .
46 Given a situation where land is being used to provide agricultural produce for export , one solution to the problem of food shortages , would be to make the land that supplies the domestic market more productive .
47 It is increasingly being asked whether the solution to the problem of truancy beyond the age of 13 lies in changes at school to alleviate the boredom , and increase the motivation to participate , of less academic pupils .
48 Galloway has commented that ‘ teachers and magistrates who see legal sanctions as the solution to the problem of poor attendance might be more happily occupied in search of the Holy Grail ’ .
49 They promised a ‘ Rolls Royce ’ solution to the problem — no expense spared .
50 Perhaps the most satisfactory solution to the problem of devising an adequate control procedure is to make use of a within-subject experimental design of the sort employed by Norcross ( 1958 ) and Reese ( 1972 ) .
51 However , the colonial administrators were wrong in their particular approach to the problem and it is here and in the reaction of the Africans to colonial attitudes that we can find reasons for failure .
52 In response to this situation ‘ the national government has made no response to the problem of erosion , and none is planned ’ !
53 Any Solution to the problem of ( environmental ) deterioration must first cope with the basic cause ; overpopulation .
54 The ideological approach to the problem of soil erosion in the international aid and academic communities can not be ‘ read off ’ or predetermined by the relative strength of direct economic interests , as there is often a degree of autonomy of these ideas from economic determinants .
55 And of course , from my own professional viewpoint , it is clear that even after a break of so many years , Miss Kenton would prove the perfect solution to the problem at present besetting us at Darlington Hall .
56 A telephone call alerting them briefly to the problem followed up by a letter is usually the most effective approach .
57 Their work returned afresh to the problem of social waste in education , and especially to its manifestation in the selective and divided system of secondary education .
58 Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story .
59 Nowadays , most physicians would regard this as an over-radical approach to the problem of warts but it does reflect the despair , by no means restricted to those days , felt by doctors trying to cope with recurrent genital condylomata .
60 So it is n't just a feminine response to the problem .
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