Example sentences of "with [noun sg] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with mercury was that the curative dose was much too close to the lethal dose , and it was easy to make the patient worse as a result of treatment . |
| 2 | The problem with consultancy was that companies liked to use the eminent , to whom they were prepared to pay high fees ; getting started was very difficult . |
| 3 | The only feature in common with all the discharges associated with gonorrhoea is that they represent an alteration from the normal . |
| 4 | ‘ The problem with AIDS is that there is complete immuno-suppression . |
| 5 | An initial objection against any easy identification of such a privacy with consciousness is that , when driving , say , the highest level commands to turn the car , keep the accelerator depressed , etc. , would be ‘ inscrutable from below ’ in the way discussed , but the level of those commands could never be identified with consciousness because , as Sartre liked to point out ad nauseam , we can drive ‘ without thinking about it ’ and , moreover , at no danger to the public . |
| 6 | A major reason why people decide to have nothing to do with religion is that , in the name of religion , much injustice , violence and bigotry has been perpetrated . |
| 7 | The only real problem with QBasic is that it does n't come with any sort of printed documentation — this is where we can help . |
| 8 | It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem with recycling is that we can not determine the colour of waste material in advance . |
| 10 | However , the problem with law is that it can be radically re-ordered through political institutions . |
| 11 | The second reason why the homosexual is involved with difference is because , contrary to what the foregoing theory implies , she or he has , in historical actuality , embraced both cultural and racial difference . |
| 12 | The most that can be said with confidence is that the relationship is a liability for the population of Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 14 | The main problem with contraception is that many young women and men know about it , but they do n't use it . |
| 15 | Thus a full description of what is wrong with pornography is that it reinforces desires on the part of men to treat women as objects , as means , and thus , indirectly , it reinforces male power . |
| 16 | The problem with conjunction is that it reflects the rhetoric of a text and controls its interpretation . |
| 17 | The danger with landfill is that waste not treated correctly before burial can produce a liquid run-off or gas that 's not environmentally friendly . |
| 18 | The problem with delaying is that the Protocol documents are sent through to the buyer 's conveyancers in dribs and drabs and this can take as many weeks as did the old system of going through preliminary enquiries , etc . |
| 19 | The biggest problem with astrology is that it stops people from worshipping the one true God . |
| 20 | let's find it , you see the trouble with efficiency is that I find er so much paper |
| 21 | You mean she 's actually washed the hand that lay palm to palm with Rainbow 's as they danced ? |
| 22 | The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved . |
| 23 | She wondered if her fixation with Ace was because in her mind the two of them were inextricably linked . |
| 24 | He considered himself on the whole a pretty steady person , but the trouble with steadiness was that it could very easily become the humdrum . |
| 25 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 26 | Voluntary organisations ' relationship with government is but one aspect . |
| 27 | But you see , the trouble with polio is that once the muscles are dead the nerves which serve them are useless . ’ |
| 28 | One of the problems with polio is that the spasms of pain often cause a patient to twist his limb involuntarily into a crippled position and it becomes locked there . |
| 29 | The only snag with decorating was that it had kept her hands busy , but left her mind all too free to wander . |
| 30 | More in accordance with reality is that the new State has no option if it wishes its status to be accepted ; this is akin to necessity . |