Example sentences of "problem is [that] " in BNC.

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1 The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are .
2 ‘ One of the problems is that these older men do n't understand their roles and younger men feel let down and betrayed , ’ says Richard .
3 One of the main problems is that there is a clear separation between the various specialties , each of which has its own payment for a case .
4 For energy planners in Europe in the early 1980s one of the main problems is that there is no immediate problem .
5 One of the great problems is that we are trained to think in lists — packing lists , shopping lists , lists of tasks to complete today …
6 One of the problems is that there are teachers who do not have a salary fixed by the Ministry of Education and sometimes this salary is made up from fees paid by the parents since the Ministry argues that they do n't receive a sufficient subsidy to pay the teachers .
7 One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’
8 One of the problems is that some doctors still behave as if they are deserving of awe , or as if patients are fools , when every patient is an expert on himself , at least .
9 One of our problems is that most of us live in towns .
10 One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle .
11 In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention .
12 Professional : ‘ So one of your problems is that he throws toys ? ’
13 One of the main problems is that professionals often ask parents to keep the child under observation all day .
14 One of the major problems is that the dog feels insecure in the water because it can not maintain its grip properly on the base of the bath .
15 One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available .
16 One of the problems is that these moult-sites are usually as far from man 's activities as possible , often near remote skerries , headlands or small uninhabited islands , and this necessitates the use of a boat in most cases .
17 One of our major industrial problems is that we usually do not ask enough of our people .
18 If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide .
19 But er one of the major problems is that surgeons are trying to use less and less anaesthetic all the time .
20 Not the least of these problems is that raised by Poulantzas that the concentration upon the pluralistic influences within the state ( introducing the ‘ problematic of the subject ’ ) , calls into question the whole basis of a specifically Marxist analysis , and structuralist analysis may thus become indistinguishable from pluralist or elitist analysis .
21 One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated , it is difficult to limit its growth .
22 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 .
23 However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal .
24 One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale .
25 modern traffic calming measures however er I believe we have experts on the Council er in these matters but I believe that by narrowing the road and perhaps giving us pavements because one of our problems is that we have not got a continuous pavement through the village , and it is necessary to cross the road four times in some cases to walk from one end to the other .
26 One of the problems is that you ca n't say one night you may get seven or eight calls .
27 One of Derry 's pressing problems is that they do n't possess a natural left-sided midfielder — hence the constant chopping and changing to try and find the right balance across the middle .
28 One of the problems is that the rider , perched up there , is sitting almost directly over the centre of gravity of the thing , and there is little room to manoeuvre .
29 One of the problems is that the army of inflation forecasters in the City of London simply do not believe that the corner on inflation has been turned so easily .
30 One of the biggest problems is that many of Cheshire 's towns have now become commuter areas which has meant that the traditional stalwarts of the service have declined in numbers .
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