Example sentences of "problem was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the real problems was that there were too many badly built , badly designed buildings in the wrong location which the tenants do n't want . ’ |
| 2 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 3 | One of the bigger problems was that Fergie believed I was taking the mickey out of him by either cheating or going soft and feigning injury . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the major problems was that McDonnell Douglas had two packages — one developed for payroll , one for personnel . |
| 5 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |
| 6 | ‘ One of our biggest problems was that Chris was attracted to his work more than me , ’ said Isabelle . |
| 7 | One of the problems was that the type of people they recruited to man to staff the switchboard were from outside , they did n't know the force |
| 8 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 9 | The problem was that there were no special projects . |
| 10 | Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall . |
| 11 | Billy 's only problem was that someone or something was pursuing him . |
| 12 | ‘ The problem was that an insurance broker is not asset-backed . |
| 13 | The problem was that the EC is split between the smaller countries which want the Commission to review a takeover when combined turnover of the two companies involved exceeds Ecu2bn ( about £1.4bn ) ; and the larger ones , like the UK , France and Germany , who think a Ecu5bn threshold is sufficient . |
| 14 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 15 | The main problem was that all the furniture had to be scaled down to suit the smaller stature of the Japanese and to fit their smaller homes . |
| 16 | The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it . |
| 17 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 18 | Another problem was that they bought too few , regardless of their origin . |
| 19 | The problem was that no one stayed with him , and England subsided to 174 all out . |
| 20 | The problem was that he needed money . |
| 21 | The problem was that she had only one bedroom . |
| 22 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 23 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 24 | The problem was that they had , but they had not come back . |
| 25 | The only problem was that my present wife , Isabella Rossellini , also insisted I come to lessons with our daughter , to make sure she was happy . |
| 26 | Gloucester 's problem was that they still could not win enough of the ball . |
| 27 | The problem was that the will of the people could vary from week to week , from speaker to speaker , making consistency almost impossible . |
| 28 | My problem was that I could not sleep during the day . |
| 29 | The problem was that Bismarck did not last and his successors lacked his statesmanship and sensitivity to master the huge country he had created . |
| 30 | The main problem was that everyone seemed to assume that Gouzenko was an expert on every facet of Russian intelligence operations . |