Example sentences of "problem [be] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most political analysts think Peru 's main problem is that it is deeply divided , by race , by geography and by extremes of income . |
| 3 | The problem is that it is hard . |
| 4 | The problem is that it is hard to equate this kind of growth with that of any known animal group . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once again the problem is that it is not evident that the testator intended a legal obligation to be created . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 9 | The problem is that it is often difficult to determine how long an individual has been drinking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The problem is that it is not clear whether or not pluralist accounts do anything more than to describe , without explaining . |
| 13 | The first problem is that it is easy to determine the incorrect stem of a word ( e.g. mother → moth + er ) . |
| 14 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 15 | The IS coordinator , for example , suggested that : the only problem is that it 's developing too fast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The one I ca n't wait for is the European Cup on April 16–20 , ’ says the talented teenager , quipping : ‘ The only problem is that it 's at Cannock and not somewhere exotic in Europe ! ’ |