Example sentences of "problem is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intellectually , the problem is the British presence in Ireland . |
| 2 | A second major problem is the loss of bitterness due to precipitation in boiling and in fermentation . |
| 3 | One problem is the conflicting advice we 've received . |
| 4 | The main problem is the large , virtually all black cast — chorus , children and all . |
| 5 | The crux of the problem is the duration of the event . |
| 6 | The problem is the familiar one when trying to establish the exact fate of millions of Stalin 's victims : detailed records of the security police , if they ever existed , have probably long since been destroyed . |
| 7 | The first problem is the dispassionate judgement of compositions that emerge from , and in some cases directly express , political oppression . |
| 8 | The second problem is the evaluation of new music that ‘ deals ’ with religious subject-matter , however vague . |
| 9 | At the heart of the problem is the fact that the Government is selling off 10 different companies but presenting them as a single package . |
| 10 | The only enduring solution to this problem is the replacement of the mortar fillet and soakers with a carefully installed sheet-lead stepped flashing . |
| 11 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 12 | The problem is the fundamental modesty of his aspiration , of his person — those unvoluptuous good looks . |
| 13 | A more concerted action by governments to address this quiet massacre might have been expected , but part of the problem is the lack of a single international forum to deal with the management of small cetaceans . |
| 14 | A related problem is the evenness of the microwave background . |
| 15 | The third problem is the Security Council , or rather the latterday powers that want permanent seats on it . |
| 16 | They can decide that America 's problem is the ‘ ghetto poor ’ — the phrase that William Julius Wilson , of the University of Chicago , now prefers to ‘ underclass ’ . |
| 17 | The working poor 's main problem is the poverty trap — the tax penalty that poor families face when they move from welfare to work . |
| 18 | Another problem is the more general one of liability for negligence : as we saw in Chapter 5.3 ( f ) , this is regarded as insufficient for liability for most serious offences , and yet it may be sufficient for manslaughter . |
| 19 | Of course , the owners need to slowly encourage independence , and help their dog to cope with a new sensory environment — but waiting for the dog to learn to cope with the problem is the only real cure . |
| 20 | The one real problem is the voice-over give to Liotta 's wife , which drifts in and out of the action and rather muddies Scorsese 's operatic clarity . |
| 21 | The problem is the solution . |
| 22 | The problem is the nature of her subject . |
| 23 | But the biggest problem is the horrendous queues for rides . |
| 24 | The root of the problem is the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 25 | There is no doubt that a factor in the problem is the low wages paid to women . |
| 26 | A more general problem is the need for a close understanding with the pilot — although he can fly , Rossi relies on a pilot to control the plane whilst he takes the shots . |
| 27 | Another problem is the general feeling amongst Health Service employees and their property advisors that their listed buildings are liabilities rather than assets . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors commented ‘ The problem is the very low fee charged for a valuation , and the possibly massive liability at the end of it ’ . |
| 29 | The second problem is the means by which booming gas consumption is to be supplied — whether by hugely increased imports from the Norwegian sector of the North Sea or by greatly accelerated development of the UK 's North Sea gas resources , or by both . |
| 30 | Whatever the final conclusion to research underway may be , it is ironical that perhaps the best solution to the problem is the increased use of that other much environmentally criticised energy source , nuclear power . |