Example sentences of "problem [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that whatever I consume greenly or ungreenly constitutes a bite out of the earth 's resources . |
| 2 | And the problem is that its effect on the neighbours — within a radius of miles , given the capability of modern sound systems — is severely damaging . |
| 3 | Labour 's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years . |
| 4 | The problem is that its counts and measurements are almost the same as those of melanurum , and , as taxonomists ( at least until recently ) worked only on dead , usually discoloured preserved specimens , it was counts and measurements that were the critical factors . |
| 5 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The basic problem is that everything has been pushed out , and we ca n't see the light at the end of the tunnel , which is bad for shares . |
| 8 | ‘ In Poland , the problem is that one ca n't buy toilet paper . |
| 9 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 10 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |
| 11 | Our problem is that we always separate love from justice and love from holiness . |
| 12 | ‘ Our biggest problem is that we do not have an organisation in the country that has a monitoring role for the quality of our soil . ’ |
| 13 | Our problem is that we tend to eat too much of some nutrients and not enough of others . |
| 14 | The main problem is that we rarely know what we really want . |
| 15 | The distinction between the individual and what is being looked for can be confused : the problem is that we do n't always know how much . |
| 16 | The problem is that we have got the balance wrong . |
| 17 | The only problem is that we are not doing enough of it and in the right way . |
| 18 | The problem is that we sow so little . |
| 19 | I think our problem is that we 're too closely identified with beer , and traditional draught beer at that . |
| 20 | ‘ Our problem is that we 're not in the Premier League , but hopefully that will be remedied at the end of this season . ’ |
| 21 | Our problem is that we 're not in the Premier League , but hopefully that will be remedied at the end of this season . ’ |
| 22 | I believe that the reason for this being such a common problem is that we live , in the Western industrialised world , in such a disembodied way . |
| 23 | The problem is that we do n't get the following day 's forecast until 4pm and sometimes it has to join the queue for updating . |
| 24 | When it comes to other sensory systems , much of the problem is that we have n't the sort of clear ideas about how they might work that we have about the visual system . |
| 25 | ‘ The problem is that we are a retailer , and our skills may not be easily exported . |
| 26 | One problem is that we may have no clear criterion for dividing up the workforce into classes and strata . |
| 27 | However , the problem is that we are approaching things on the Balcerowicz model , the Polish model . |
| 28 | ‘ The only problem is that we will kill your daughter if you do not do exactly as you are told . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said . |
| 30 | The problem is that we lack virtually any faith . |