Example sentences of "the trouble [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that the allegation has begun to seem convincing . |
| 2 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
| 3 | The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library . |
| 4 | The trouble is that since Chilcott 's dismissal for punching , players in the county have been on their best behaviour . |
| 5 | The trouble is that , today , much of this appears appallingly naive and disgustingly obsequious . |
| 6 | The trouble is that in Britain our women are expected to behave like servants , and we are not used to behaving like servants and we ca n't . |
| 7 | The trouble is that we do n't see . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is that there is such a high level of expectancy , ’ she says . |
| 9 | ‘ The trouble is that there is such a high level of expectancy , ’ she says . |
| 10 | The trouble is that directors involved in buying the company from existing shareholders clearly face a conflict between their own interests ( as buyers ) and their shareholders ' interests ( as sellers ) . |
| 11 | The trouble is that nobody knows where the road leads . |
| 12 | The trouble is that in economics the likeliest result often fails to turn up . |
| 13 | The trouble is that governments have always intervened in energy , usually with a bias in favour of production . |
| 14 | The trouble is that none of the three firms is nearly as Japanese as the owners would like it to be . |
| 15 | The trouble is that banks , investment houses and insurers are now in competition with each other . |
| 16 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 17 | The trouble is that the reform-minded Communists are still in bed with barely reformed Stalinists . |
| 18 | The trouble is that such verities are no longer enough . |
| 19 | The trouble is that tiptoeing is desperately uncomfortable when you are trying to win a war at the same time . |
| 20 | The trouble is that no other country is prepared to pay even as much ( ie , little ) as the Russians for surplus EC butter ; much of it would go rancid in the Community 's cold stores . |
| 21 | The trouble is that each creditor wants all the other creditors to sign new loan deals , while he keeps his original loan agreement , so that there will be more money , and he gets a bigger slice of it . |
| 22 | The trouble is that many other firms want to do the same , so the profits of the business will probably be lower by then . |
| 23 | The trouble is that in 1982–90 the yield was not high enough . |
| 24 | The trouble is that , after the event , all of these make the situation worse rather than better . |
| 25 | But the trouble is that they do not account for anything like all the shares of most firms . |
| 26 | The trouble is that the country where the Kurds have fewest rights is Turkey . |
| 27 | The trouble is that the levy is an unsatisfactory mechanism for allocating cash . |
| 28 | The trouble is that he attracts attention to himself — and today was no exception . |
| 29 | ‘ We would have converted it to run off the engine , but the trouble is that if the engine broke down , you would n't be able to get the bonnet up to look at it ! ’ |
| 30 | The trouble is that so are a lot of other people , and classy people at that , which is why old Joe ‘ I'm-a-dealer-in-architectural-antiques ’ Soap has climbed on to the pricey bandwagon . |