Example sentences of "the problem is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the problems is that these older men do n't understand their roles and younger men feel let down and betrayed , ’ says Richard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 4 | One of the problems is that some doctors still behave as if they are deserving of awe , or as if patients are fools , when every patient is an expert on himself , at least . |
| 5 | One of the problems is that it is much more likely to become hostile and therefore difficult to handle . |
| 6 | One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available . |
| 7 | One of the problems is that these moult-sites are usually as far from man 's activities as possible , often near remote skerries , headlands or small uninhabited islands , and this necessitates the use of a boat in most cases . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated , it is difficult to limit its growth . |
| 10 | To some extent , but one of the problems is that women of an earlier generation have had to claw their way through the art world in order that a younger generation of women artists today — a generation which is almost gender blind — should have an easier time . |
| 11 | One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale . |
| 12 | One of the problems is that you ca n't say one night you may get seven or eight calls . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The problems is that you do n't know what documents you need for your enquiry . |
| 16 | Now one of the problems is that they no longer perhaps group together in self-supportive units . |
| 17 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 18 | Usually the problem is that no one is really taking charge and telling the others exactly what to do . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When planning if the problem is that the vice jaws foul the plane fence , the answer is simple . |
| 21 | The problem is that unless you have absolutely plain walls , there will be a number of obstacles to tile round , and you have to decide how to get the best fit round them with your inflexible tile squares , without ending up cutting impossibly thin slivers to fill in all the gaps . |
| 22 | He said yesterday : ‘ The problem is that the law is artificial . |
| 23 | The problem is that normally potential purchasers have to incur the expense of undertaking surveys and arranging mortgage finance , without any idea whether they will be able to afford the final selling price . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem is that Knighton wants to sit in the chairman 's seat , at least for a while , ’ one confidant said . |
| 25 | The root of the problem is that there is no Non-Conformist equivalent of the church commissioners who , as well as contributing in large measure to Church of England clergy stipends , share with the state the responsibility for providing the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 26 | ‘ The problem is that Israel wants to choose both teams on the football field , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The problem is that so little of police time is devoted to it . |
| 29 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 30 | The problem is that , as we have seen , the Marxist theory of society depends on a contradiction between conflicting principles and on a conflict between different classes . |