Example sentences of "'s problem [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ken Livingstone 's problem is that he is always on the television slagging the party off . ’ |
| 2 | A new act 's problem is that if they approach an established manager , he or she will already be representing at least one major act . |
| 3 | Labour 's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years . |
| 4 | ‘ Yuri 's problem is that he has very fine hair , ’ said Anthony , carefully snipping feathery layers into the rather worried-looking star 's tresses . |
| 5 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 6 | The patient 's problem is that he has joined a group of unfamiliar people , some of whom , the patients , are present all the time ; others , the nurses , are in his vicinity for some of the time ; and a whole variety of others appear ‘ to come and go ’ . |
| 7 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 8 | The historian 's problem is that there is insufficient archaeological or documentary evidence to establish the chronology of this process . |
| 9 | The capital 's problem is that , as a largely French-speaking enclave in Flanders , it belongs to nobody ; few objected , when , in the 1960s , property developers replaced parts of its historic centre with concrete boxes . |
| 10 | Noblenet 's problem is that its major competitor , Boulder , Colorado-based Netwise Inc has already mopped up most of the potential outlets with its RPC-Toolkit offering . |
| 11 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gloucester 's problem was that they still could not win enough of the ball . |
| 14 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 15 | Barlaston 's problem was that it sat astride a geological fault ( i.e. the junction of two different types of substrata ) . |
| 16 | Caroline 's problem was that she felt quite unable to make decisions . |
| 17 | Catherine 's problem was that she was an extremely clever woman with a real talent for mysticism , but she never found a spiritual director who was either intelligent or knowledgeable enough to control her and lead her beyond this perilous psychic hinterland . |
| 18 | As I said , part of Barny 's problem was that he 'd never had any contact with people at all , and by the time I got him it was too late . |
| 19 | Léonie 's problem was that she could not count . |
| 20 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 21 | ‘ Heather 's problem was that she did n't feel she belonged , Mr Barnett . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) That the judge 's failure to direct the jury adequately as to the defendant 's previous good character was a material misdirection which could have caused injustice to him ; that at any stage of the trial the jury were entitled to the judge 's assistance on the facts as well as on the law , the withholding of which constituted an irregularity which might , depending on the circumstances , be material ; and that the judge had erred in failing to ascertain what the jury 's problem was and to give the requisite help ( post , pp. 166C , F–G , 167G , H ) . |