Example sentences of "problem that have " in BNC.

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1 It was the age-old problem that had not been solved since the Populists first went to the people in the 1870s .
2 The establishment of a secure air-reinforcement route was a problem that had to be solved by the Air Staff in conjunction with the Foreign Office .
3 Prof Griffin said motion sickness was a widespread and ‘ often humiliating ’ problem that had been neglected by scientists .
4 The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many .
5 One problem that had consistently undermined the Urban Programme was its lack of objective definition ( National Audit Office , 1986 ) .
6 Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember .
7 ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention .
8 It was not a problem that had ever occurred before , and although Ellie knew she was probably playing with fire she was intrigued to know how it would all turn out .
9 The Constantinople Protocol of 1913 was an attempt by Britain and Russia to overcome the problem that had developed in 1911 .
10 Glastonbury was certainly upset , although that did n't stop him nodding off on several occasions ; Fagg was enraged — the term ‘ bloody fellow ’ came up frequently ; Fishbane was considered ; the Commander spluttered a lot and Chatterton said very little except to draw on his memory of some committee problem that had arisen in 1964 .
11 First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 .
12 Perhaps the most difficult problem that had to be sorted out in 1689 concerned the settlement in the Church .
13 She realised she was being too serious , a problem that had plagued her all her life .
14 I read somewhere , at some stage , some problem that 's got rid of by using Share .
15 So , it 's it 's just a problem that 's come to the surface that obviously needs addressing .
16 A problem that 's come your way and it is n't the usual problems that you can quickly find an answer to .
17 It was a positive answer to an appalling problem that has since been copied in different forms by many other industries .
18 A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen .
19 Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations .
20 Depending upon the kind of problem that has arisen , it may be easier and safer for you to sue for damages for breach of your contract while remaining in your job .
21 A problem that has bothered biologists , at least since Charles Darwin , is why the males of Bufo bufo toads are smaller than the females ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 2214 . )
22 Despite serious and sometimes substantial attempts to provide policy-makers with alternatives , the view of the problem that has ‘ stuck ’ remains that expressed by Hermann Kahn 's central question , ‘ What price are we prepared to pay to deter the aggressor ? ’
23 One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches .
24 What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ .
25 Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions .
26 In so doing he creates a problem that has not yet been solved .
27 But I learned about the problem that has dogged him from race one , and he confirmed to me : ‘ At the end of the season I 'll be having an operation . ’
28 The need to store and maintain specialised equipment in good condition is a problem that has to be faced by schools accepting pupils who need to use these in order to fulfil their special educational needs .
29 Have you solved a problem that has frustrated or infuriated you ?
30 An additional problem that has dogged personality theories is that of tautology ; if the categories are to mean anything , they must not be identified only by the fact that the people who fall into them tend to commit crimes .
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