Example sentences of "problem [is] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 4 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 5 | But the real problem is that it reaches mainly those who need it least . |
| 6 | The problem is that it is hard . |
| 7 | The problem is that it is hard to equate this kind of growth with that of any known animal group . |
| 8 | The problem is that it is not just life expectancy that determines whether the child has this ‘ right to live ’ ; often handicaps such as Down 's Syndrome which is one of the primary forms of mental handicap identified by tests , are considered such a burden both to the child and the family that the pregnancy will be terminated . |
| 9 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 10 | Once again the problem is that it is not evident that the testator intended a legal obligation to be created . |
| 11 | The problem is that it gets out of hand . |
| 12 | But the main problem is that it is far more difficult to teach a new spoken dialect because so many aspects of spoken production are automatic and below the level of conscious control . |
| 13 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 14 | The problem is that it is often difficult to determine how long an individual has been drinking . |
| 15 | There is general agreement in the hot fusion community that CIT will bring significant advances to the field , but the problem is that it will cost 700 million dollars which requires new funds and imposes new pressures both within and outside the community . |
| 16 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 17 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 18 | HP is not in a hurry to rush to OSF/1 , Owen says , because the applications are n't there , but ‘ the big problem is that it [ OSF/1 ] is n't called Unix . |
| 19 | The IS coordinator , for example , suggested that : the only problem is that it 's developing too fast . |
| 20 | The only problem is that it can be terribly difficult to read — and you do want them to read the copy do n't you ? |
| 21 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 22 | The problem is that it would be in the self-interest of any one of us to withhold our contribution , let everyone else contribute , gain free health care and keep the cash . |
| 23 | The problem is that it is not clear whether or not pluralist accounts do anything more than to describe , without explaining . |
| 24 | The problem is that it probably all lies in the past — thirty , forty years back , if it 's Walter Machin that 's at the heart of it , as I begin to think it could be . |
| 25 | The problem is that it only works if your PC has a fax card and is set up as a fax machine . |
| 26 | The first problem is that it is easy to determine the incorrect stem of a word ( e.g. mother → moth + er ) . |
| 27 | The problem is that it would be very hard to justify the cost : much of this could go on after students arrived , and the course modified as it went along . |
| 28 | A second problem is that it seems somehow contradictory that to should have meaning in some of its uses but not in others . |
| 29 | We now have a splendid new bypass road for which thank you very much , the only problem is that it has halved the traffic but doubled the speeds . |
| 30 | Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are . |