Example sentences of "with [det] [is] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The only problem with that is that it 's not necessarily going to be accepted .
2 The trouble with that is that others may not be astute as they are in identifying impending crises , and will take some convincing if a crisis is not obvious .
3 One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement .
4 The reason why we 're less familiar with that is that we have a secret ballot and so there is no way of knowing how someone has cast their vote , and so there 's no way of effectively forcing someone to cast their vote one way or another .
5 Yes , because the snag is with that is that it means the vast amount of , and then the gypsum that is produced has got to be disposed of has n't it , so that the limestone is mined and then they 've got to get rid of the gypsum .
6 Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice .
7 and I think , I think the difficulty with that is until you know it , as one person said to Alex in front of me ah well , we , we did exactly what you required and you never brought any audience , there was no audience , do you remember that ?
8 One of the major problems with this is that the private benefits accruing to households or families who take up either family planning or conservation measures are often not clear — either as perceived to exist by households themselves or even as calculated by economic models .
9 The snag with this is that it is often impossible to avoid the triggering events altogether and in any case it might be better to face them squarely and control your reactions to the events rather than the events themselves .
10 The snag with this is that the suppressed feelings are still experienced internally rather than avoided or prevented .
11 The difficulty with this is that unless there are well-established efficiency measures for the services of the department neither it nor its users will know whether they are getting value for money .
12 The problem with this is that most people still want , at some stage in their lives , formal ( that is to say legal ) recognition of their commitment to one another .
13 However , the problem with this is that a group of children see the same entertainer time after time .
14 The trouble with this is that if it did n't work it might be because the conditions and catalysts are wrong .
15 One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm .
16 The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science .
17 The trouble with this is that the viewer , to whom the sea appears to be uniformly blue in the sense of ‘ appears ’ in question , may , in fact , think that the sea merely reflects the colour of the sky , or even that colours exist only in the mind .
18 The difficulty with this is that it is an appeal to the future , and it concedes the debate about the present to the Right .
19 Perhaps the inherent problem with this is that ‘ women and literature ’ is labelled as ‘ subjective ’ and ‘ trivial ’ , and therefore becomes marginalized : it is not allowed to challenge the mainstream ideas of the English degree .
20 The difficulty with this is that it is not obvious how the extra baryon concentration would come about — cooling would be unimportant in the outer parts of clusters , so the gas would not naturally sink inwards as in a so-called cooling flow .
21 The trouble with this is that , although the plants are meant to bloom at the same time , invariably some flower later or earlier , and ruin the whole carefully thought-out scheme .
22 The difficulty with this is that it makes the question of A's liability to C turn on what may be a purely technical contravention of the law by A which is of no real concern to C. Further , there are uncertainties in the meaning of ‘ unlawful ’ for this purpose .
23 The difficulty with this is that if Individuals-do not choose consciously to subvert democracy — as Mills has argued — why is it that the military and the large corporations as institutions have to dominate the political system and subvert liberal democracy ?
24 The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training .
25 The problem with this is that although all that shows in column C is a time , the cell really contains the whole date serial number and this will mess up the arithmetic discussed later ( see Step 8 ) to calculate duration .
26 One problem with this is that , up until the break-up of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s , the postwar period was characterized by a world of fixed exchange rates , which suggests that rates of inflation should converge , as opposed to being different under different regimes , if fixed parities are to be maintained .
27 The problem with this is that in doing so you are taking a risk : perhaps you are misunderstanding what you read , and so your notes become an incorrect version of what was said .
28 The , the point I 'm raising with this is that he does seem , in that particular piece , he does quite strongly , to me anyway , that that individuation is still very strong
29 The problem with this is that it will drive up the exchange rate and thus make it harder for firms to export .
30 The problem that the Tories have with this is that they still appear on the unemployment figures .
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