Example sentences of "the [adj] problem [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the greatest problem is that those opting out would tend to be the relatively young , affluent , low-risk groups . |
| 2 | The serious problem is that in this key area of the debate about ageing so much is speculative . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The central problem is that you could never measure the original position of the page with sufficient accuracy . |
| 6 | The second problem is that where the engine joins the Series IIa gearbox there is a half moon gap , this could cause serious problems of mud and dirt if we have to wade across mud to pick up some dismounted horse rider . |
| 7 | The second problem is that even if we are able to provide functionality with replacement materials , we have to place them within , and thereby create an interface with , the tissues of the body which are extremely aggressive to any invading agent but which are also exquisitely sensitive to their presence . |
| 8 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 9 | The second problem is that the effects of inflation make the relationship between calculated rates of charge for credit and its real-life costs already difficult enough to grasp — virtually incomprehensible . |
| 10 | The second problem is that the complex multi-causal nature of drug use makes it difficult to identify what particular combinations of factors make people likely to use heroin , and changes in these causal variables could increase the size of the potential user population . |
| 11 | The second problem is that , even when he is directly involved , Butman never gets under the skin of either characters or company . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now the second problem is that we all value our freedoms and we the greatest thing that we all have in our lives , whether it 's in work , or whether it 's in our marriages or just in our social life , we all value our freedom and initiative , we want to be able to use our own initiative . |
| 14 | However , it seems to me that the chief problem is that the guys are playing the new laws with the old mentality . |
| 15 | The real problem is that such research reveals modes of thought and practice which are well known and constituted , but which are necessarily concealed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The real problem is that , unless resisted , the vigorous pressure for federalism by some leaders in Europe will become an assumed part of our involvement in the European Community . |
| 18 | The real problem is that he is Swiss and not Danish . |
| 19 | But the real problem is that it reaches mainly those who need it least . |
| 20 | Such natural impediments aside the real problem is that however still one tries to remain , one 's own body sets up waves which destroy the reflections which are such an intrinsic part of the sought after image . |
| 21 | The real problem is that the Government refuses to accept what the Maastricht Treaty is about . |
| 22 | The real problem is that Televisa 's experience in Mexico may have convinced it that a strategy which worked well in a market where the company was protected by the government is one that will succeed in the face of intense competition . |
| 23 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 24 | The real problem is that if solicitors prepare the written brief , there is much less of a case for denying them the right of audience to argue that brief before the court . |
| 25 | The real problem is that there are situations where negative pecuniary externalities exist , and this means that co-operative R&D ventures may end up doing less R&D than independent firms would have done in the same setting . |
| 26 | The real problem is that there is no democracy in Scotland . |
| 27 | ‘ Publishers are concerned about dwindling hardback sales ; but the real problem is that the price of most hardbacks deters people from buying them . |
| 28 | But the real problem is that no matter how reactionary their articles seem to be the writers still tend to be enmeshed in the thought patterns of the Straightworld even when deriding it , which can only work like walking on a treadmill towards the new World . |
| 29 | The real problem is that this building does not have the necessary cable ducts . |
| 30 | The real problem is that , because of the infighting between various entrenched interests , the Scottish Office may opt for a quiet life and the status quo . |