Example sentences of "problem [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major problems is that the dog feels insecure in the water because it can not maintain its grip properly on the base of the bath . |
| 2 | One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale . |
| 3 | One of the problems is that the rider , perched up there , is sitting almost directly over the centre of gravity of the thing , and there is little room to manoeuvre . |
| 4 | One of the problems is that the army of inflation forecasters in the City of London simply do not believe that the corner on inflation has been turned so easily . |
| 5 | Usually the problem is that no one is really taking charge and telling the others exactly what to do . |
| 6 | One Serb said : ‘ The problem is that no one knows what will happen . |
| 7 | The problem is that no amount of self-knowledge can entirely express our full humanity , precisely because we are incomplete beings . |
| 8 | A further problem is that no one is quite sure exactly what defines health care and social care , since an individual 's progress in responding to treatment is often measured by an improvement in the performance of social care tasks and everyday activities . |
| 9 | As was stated in the foreword to this report , the basic problem is that no one wants gypsies around : ‘ all too often the settled community is concerned chiefly to persuade or even force , the gypsy families to move on . ’ |
| 10 | A further problem is that a BAe takeover would strengthen German objections to Ferranti winning the radar contract for the European Fighter Aircraft since it would mean BAe gaining a disproportionately large share of the total project . |
| 11 | The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea . |
| 12 | The problem is that a great many of such units are needed , far more than are being built , if the numbers of larger hospitals are to be reduced . |
| 13 | The central problem is that a political party is ill-equipped to debate policy or philosophy because unity , not intellectual openness , is its highest virtue . |
| 14 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 15 | The second problem is that a lax competition policy might be used by a member state as a substitute for trade policy or industrial policy , to protect domestic producers or to promote export sectors . |
| 16 | The main problem is that a dictionary is designed to be used by a human being , not a computer program . |
| 17 | My problem is that a great deal of business needs to be done , and I have to try to accommodate that business as well . |
| 18 | The first problem is that a graph of units is being layed over a continuum . |
| 19 | The problem is that a large number of environmental black spots inevitably fall within the public sector . |
| 20 | One problem is that a word may be loaded in a special way for some part of the sample , e.g. ‘ disabled ’ is a much more acceptable term than ‘ crippled ’ for those in such categories . |
| 21 | When planning if the problem is that the vice jaws foul the plane fence , the answer is simple . |
| 22 | The real problem is that the writers of such texts may make political difficulties within a department , or teach in ways difficult for students to understand . |
| 23 | He said yesterday : ‘ The problem is that the law is artificial . |
| 24 | The only problem is that the Dutch have not really been very good at the game since Dr Euwe retired . |
| 25 | The only problem is that the Soviet side insists there is nothing new . |
| 26 | But the problem is that the government wo n't allow my children to go to school . |
| 27 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 28 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 29 | Another problem is that the wildlife lobby is divided even over simple things like the future of old farm woodlands . |
| 30 | Even when the music 's good , ( Act 's first single was superb , the Age of Chance LP was surprisingly listenable ) the problem is that the pop schemers have made MASS POPULAR SUCCESS such an integral part of the product . |