Example sentences of "problem [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault . |
| 2 | One of Derry 's pressing problems is that they do n't possess a natural left-sided midfielder — hence the constant chopping and changing to try and find the right balance across the middle . |
| 3 | Now one of the problems is that they no longer perhaps group together in self-supportive units . |
| 4 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 5 | One of the great problems is that we are trained to think in lists — packing lists , shopping lists , lists of tasks to complete today … |
| 6 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 7 | One of our major industrial problems is that we usually do not ask enough of our people . |
| 8 | modern traffic calming measures however er I believe we have experts on the Council er in these matters but I believe that by narrowing the road and perhaps giving us pavements because one of our problems is that we have not got a continuous pavement through the village , and it is necessary to cross the road four times in some cases to walk from one end to the other . |
| 9 | If you 've got carbon monoxide poisoning one of the problems is that your blood ca n't carry the oxygen because the red blood cells are being put out of action by the carbon monoxide . |
| 10 | One of the problems is that you ca n't say one night you may get seven or eight calls . |
| 11 | The problems is that you do n't know what documents you need for your enquiry . |
| 12 | One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle . |
| 13 | However successful British Coal is in the future in building on its outstanding success in recent years and improving productivity , one of its basic problems is that it can sell only coal . |
| 14 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 15 | Professional : ‘ So one of your problems is that he throws toys ? ’ |
| 16 | One of the main problems is that there is a clear separation between the various specialties , each of which has its own payment for a case . |
| 17 | For energy planners in Europe in the early 1980s one of the main problems is that there is no immediate problem . |
| 18 | One of the problems is that there are teachers who do not have a salary fixed by the Ministry of Education and sometimes this salary is made up from fees paid by the parents since the Ministry argues that they do n't receive a sufficient subsidy to pay the teachers . |
| 19 | One of the real problems was that there were too many badly built , badly designed buildings in the wrong location which the tenants do n't want . ’ |
| 20 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 21 | The problem is that whatever I consume greenly or ungreenly constitutes a bite out of the earth 's resources . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Labour 's problem is that its core constituency in the manual working class has steadily declined over the years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ In Poland , the problem is that one ca n't buy toilet paper . |
| 29 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 30 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |